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- WebHome < Main < Reprap reprap.org
"Instead of printing on bits of paper this 3D printer makes real, robust, mechanical parts. To give you an idea of how robust, think Lego bricks and you're in the right area. You could make lots of useful stuff, but interestingly you could also make most of the parts to make another 3D printer. That would be a machine that could copy itself." Want.
#design #tools #hacks #technology #hardware #prototyping #diy #electronics #engineering#fabrication#reprap - The Typography Manual - For the iPhone and iPod Touch typographyapp.com
The Typography Manual has several useful features and resources for designers, including a visual type anatomy glossary, a font size ruler, an em calculator, and enough content to fill a 60 page book. It has all the essentials of a desk reference in a regularly updated pocket resource.
- satine.org » Snow Stack is Here satine.org
Looks cool. Wish I could be bothered to install the Webkit nightly so I could see it in context.
- Tools of Engagement: The New Practice of User-Centered Design, by Robert Fabricant - Core77 core77.com
We have been operating under the assumption that the primary challenge is to convince businesses to focus on fulfilling user needs with higher quality products, with more meaningful experiences. But what if the 'users' themselves are the problem? What if users represent not a coherent set of needs but a messy mix of desires and influences? What, ultimately, is the role of the designer in sorting through these desires to determine which should drive our design decisions? And what frameworks, other than intuition, should we use to make these judgments?
Allows you to always see the file's history and save file versions and get file versions without switching from the main Photoshop window.
Missing. The. Point.
- Walls Come Tumbling Down presentation slides and transcript | For A Beautiful Web forabeautifulweb.com
Excellent overview of agile (small-a) process from Malarkey
- adaptive path » blog » Brandon Schauer » use of concept: the best proof of concept adaptivepath.com · Archived on
"Over the past 2 months the city government, in cooperation with business groups and non-profits, has turned a corner of one of the busiest intersections in San Francisco into a public plaza. The 17th Street Plaza project took 72-hours to implement, and is carefully called a “reversible trial.” Like the phrase “reversible pilot”.
A simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.
Jeremy Keith's notes from Jared Spool's talk at An Event Apart Boston.
- Jared Spool: Revealing Design Treasures From The Amazon slideshare.net
Spool's excellent talk on Amazon from An Event Apart Boston.
Portfolio built with Google Maps controls.
For those who have no control over which clients and projects come to them, there is still hope, because everyone on the web (not just professional designers and developers) has the ability to produce meaningful content, and every designer and developer additionally has the power to create products and services. As your own client, working alone, or with a carefully hand-picked team, you can produce great things
- Skeuomorph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
a term used in the history of architecture, design, and archaeology. It refers to a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to structure that was necessary in the original. Skeuomorphs may be deliberately employed to make the new look comfortably old and familiar, such as copper cladding on zinc pennies or computer printed postage with circular town name and cancellation lines."
- Scope (Schulze & Webb) schulzeandwebb.com
Another brilliant talk from Matt Webb.
- Stephen Bayley's opinion on the battle for Chelsea Barracks | Art and design | The Observer guardian.co.uk
"The fabulous absurdity of the media "debate" between Prince Charles and Richard Rogers is that each is a historical relic. The prince is a throwback to the 18th century and beyond, the architect is a suntanned survivor of the 20th. We are now in the 21st, a century with priorities of its own. Charles's unreflective and ludicrous enthusiasm for anachronism in architecture has its equivalent in Rogers' dogmatic and doctrinaire insistence on aesthetic conflict with metal and glass."
- The DIY Cheapskate Laptop Stand theclosetentrepreneur.com
A light, portable and eco friendly laptop stand.
This Noble Art. Society of Revisionist Typographers. Letterpress. Printers & Purveyors of Typographic Design
- Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit objectifiedfilm.com
Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis.
- Type | A record label typerecords.com
New Type Records site. Nice.
"While working on the Odeo relaunch, we kept running into a frustrating problem: When we saved out the slices, the awesome Odeo pink flattened to a dreary "light coral". I'd seen the problem before, but never so pronounced: The color, through no fault of its own, was obviously changing, and we were at a loss for a way to prevent this."
Why Photoshop color changes washes out lightens darkens unsaturates desaturates fades when Save for Web, Jump To, Edit In ImageReady Photoshop, or posted on the www internet, on the monitor display screen or on the printed inkjet laser print.
- The New Negroponte Switch slideshare.net
Talk from Matt Jones. Spimes!
- Milton Glaser - Ten Things I Have Learned miltonglaser.com
Click on a flavor, and watch as it generates a serving of fake information right before your eyes. Use it as filler copy, in your book report, or whisper it to your special someone.
Via flippers.
Dynamic visualizations for the iPhone.
- Dear Dustin Curtis | Dustin Curtis dustincurtis.com
If the UX architect at AA.com is actually pretty good, then why does the site suck so much?
- Pirata London - Your Digital Production Partners piratalondon.com
A really little content management system for when you (or your clients) need to edit content without the hassle of setting up a big CMS.
- Rossignol » Thrilling Wonder Stories rossignol.cream.org
Via tomtaylor.
This website contains over 650 posters from the National Theatre Archive. Beautiful photographic quality prints are available in a range of sizes and prices, supplied ready for framing and delivered to your door.
- Colour Contrast Analyser :: Firefox Add-ons addons.mozilla.org
Still experimental "A colour contrast analyser that examines the foreground and background colours of text nodes, and provides a report to see if they are correct according to AERT and WCAG's luminosity colour contrast algorithm."
I’ve yet to meet a developer who would choose to build a screen from a wireframe over a Photoshop document, regardless of how many helpful and important details the wireframes may contain. Realizing this is human nature, we now annotating our PSDs rather than wireframes. Why hold the information in a document that’s no one wants to read?
Via rowanrosser.
Videogaming exhibition in Manchester.
- Kickstarter kickstarter.com
A funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, bloggers, explorers...
#design #music #business #social #work #creativity #ideas #entrepreneurship#fundraising#funding #art #startups - littleBits littlebits.cc
An opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together.
Via stevenparker.
- Creating prototypes with OmniGraffle | urlgreyhot urlgreyhot.com
I've used Visio and Axure Pro in the past to do quick and dirty demos of interaction. With Visio, it's been easy to link sheets together. But I've been spending my time primarily in OmniGraffle Pro lately, so I wanted to demonstrate to the other Mac-using IA's and IxD's out there how you can do the same thing.
Via smitchio.
- Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects thingiverse.com
Ooooh. "Thingiverse is a place for you to share your digital designs with the world. We believe that just as computing shifted away from the mainframe into the personal computer that you use today, digital fabrication will share the same path."
Via torrez.