February 2009
10 posts
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M.I.A. - “Paper Planes” (remix for the...
Good Design: The Ten Commandments of Dieter Rams →
The tenth commandment is my favorite:
Good design is as little design as possible
Back to purity, back to simplicity.
Hear hear. (via DF)
NYT's Article Skimming Interface →
Last Friday, the New York Times released a prototype of an as-yet-unnamed interface for browsing the Sunday Edition online:
Think of it as an attempt to provide the Sunday Times experience anytime. Of course, there are parts we can’t replicate: the satisfying crinkle of the paper; the circular stain of your coffee; the smell of newsprint. […] Instead, our focus was on the fundamentals of...
Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect →
In a medium in which mediocre singing has never been a bar to entry, a lot of pop vocals suddenly sound great. Better than great: note- and pitch-perfect, as if there’s been an unspoken tightening of standards at record labels or an evolutionary leap in the development of vocal cords.
While it can be used to great effect (see “Woods” on Bon Iver’s Blood Bank EP), I...
Layer Tennis: Season 2 →
Season Two of Layer Tennis begins today at 2pm CST with a match involving 10 different players from 10 different countries. If it’s anything like last season, Layer Tennis is a perfect way to kill the last few hours of the Friday workday.
Five Simple Steps ~ A Practical Guide to Designing... →
A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web aims to teach you techniques for designing your website using the principles of graphic design. Featuring five sections, each covering a core aspect of graphic design: Getting Started, Research, Typography, Colour, and Layout. Learn solid graphic design theory that you can simply apply to your designs, making the difference from a good design to a...
Weekend Reading
If you need more to read this weekend, let it be these two articles:
“The Case Against Everything Boxes” by Alex Payne
An Everything Bucket, since you‘re probably wondering, is what I call applications that encourage the user to throw anything and everything into them. They are Not A Good Idea.
It hadn’t occurred to me before I read this, but I think he’s...