After participating in a lengthy Twitter discussion with John O’Nolan (twitter @JohnONolan), it has been agreed that JavaScript is “standard.”
So fellow web designers, after a long discussion I put it to you that JS is now “standard” and should be supported like CSS, not like Flash. – @JohnONolan
I wrote a previous article about discontinuing support [...]
It’s Monday, and we’re all looking for a good way to start off the week. Here are 5 funny videos that should kick start your week off the right way.
Design Coding – Rap
South Park – Mac vs. PC
Font Fight – CollegeHumor
How NOT to use PowerPoint
Graphic Designer Baby
Bonus – Your Business Card is Crap
I have not been posting enough articles that give you readers some inspiration, so here goes.
Fabio Sasso has become one of my online idols over the last year and a bit, mostly because of his fantastic website, Abduzeedo. The site offers countless tutorials based in Photoshop, Illustrator, Pixelmator and more, along with a ton of [...]
HTML5 and CSS3 look incredible. I’m sure some of you have already been doing a few mock up designs using the new code to test it out. No doubt it can do some incredible things, one of my favorites is the ease at which you can make rounded corners, as seen on in this Smashing [...]
In a follow up to my previous post regarding the limit on creativity, I came across a great post about colour in the design world.
Can colour be owned?
In one word, yes. If you have ever taken a look at a colour swatch book you will know there are seemingly endless amounts of options, but those [...]
With all of the content management systems out there today it seems people are losing a bit of their creativity in order to have a site that is easily updateable.
Sprye Studios has complied a list of 50 great websites based on some creative CSS layouts that have been submitted to the CSS Awards this year.
Be [...]
Nothing gets my inspiration going like a new invention, especially one such as elegantly designed as the Sleep Box. Created by Russian architects at the Arch Group, this innovation could be the answer to sleep deprivation we are looking for.
It’s compact design is still spacious enough for a 2×0.6 m bed, a ventilation system, sound [...]
Browse. Buy. Download.
That is Brandstack’s idea of a perfect logo design process. People can go to this popular site to browse logos that are for sale by designers. Many people use this site as a place to put up logos that they have completed for fun or on a whim when an idea came into [...]
If a product is poorly designed, it usually fails to be useful, let alone popular. There are, however, exceptions to this law. The best example in recent history is the UGG Boot.
The University of Western Ontario, in particular, has been riddled with the UGG craze for at least the last four years I have been [...]
Good logos are simple and nothing is more simple than a geometric shape.
Below are 25 of the most famous and most inspiring logos that make use of a square. Some of these logos use a stylized square as a graphical element, some use it as a simple square to enforce dominance.
The simplicity of these logos [...]
