Tips & Links

09.05.2013» Map Icons Designer

Für alle, die ihre Karten mit Markierungen versehen möchten, gibt es nun ein entsprechendes Set, das kostenlos zum Download angeboten wird. »Pins« und »Symbols« können in vielen Varianten kombiniert werden.

27.04.2013» Richard Meier x Massimo Vignelli

John­nie Shand Kydd directed this beau­ti­ful short film of design leg­ends Richard Meier and Mas­simo Vignelli. They dis­cuss grids, Meier’s new office space, and their long friend­ship.

Richard Meier x Massimo Vignelli on Nowness.com.

26.04.2013» Larry King Now

Larry King Now: Just your typical stone crab claw dinner w/ the wife @shawnieora - mallets included!

18.04.2013» Harvest Field Guide to Pricing

Hey, we get it. You want to focus on producing stellar creative work, not on invoices, revenue streams, and other back office administrative tasks. That’s why we made Harvest. But here’s the reality: learning how to price accurately for projects and clients is critical to the long-term success of your business. If you do it right, your cash flow will be more predictable — and you’ll get burned less often, too.

29.01.2012» The Small Business Social Media Cheat Sheet

This cheat sheet by Flowtown will help you navigate the major social networks on the web.

23.03.2011» User Interface Design Framework

A free User Interface Design tool for Web Designer. GUI library - Hundreds vector elements for interface design. Minimal UI icons set - 260 vector icons for Illustrator.

03.02.2011» The Birth Of A Magazine

Have you ever wondered how magazines come into being? Little White Lies made a wonderful short film that captures some of the love, care and hand-crafted passion that goes into the production of an issue of their magazine.

27.01.2011» HTML5 Logo

It stands strong and true, resilient and universal as the markup you write. It shines as bright and as bold as the forward-thinking, dedicated web developers you are. It's the standard's standard, a pennant for progress.

30.11.2010» What the Hex?

Hexadezimales Farbenraten für Web-Entwickler.

19.10.2010» Amman: The City, The Typeface, The Film

Yanone succeeded in enhancing his multiscript Latin-Arabic type family with innovations previously unheard of in digital Arabic type design. Today his extended family has become the “corporate typeface” for Amman. (via fontfeed.com)

07.10.2010» Monitorleitfaden

Dieser Monitorleitfaden erklärt Technologien, Fachbegriffe und gibt Tipps, was bei der Anschaffung eines neuen Monitors beachtet werden sollte.

28.09.2010» The future of web standards

The article "The Future of Web Standards" was originally written for .net magazine where Jeffrey Zeldman predicts exciting times ahead in web design.

12.09.2010» Downloads: Andrew Loomis books (Illustration, Drawing, Painting)

Via ministryoftype.co.uk: Escape from Illustration Island has put together a set of links to download Andrew Loomis books on illustration and drawing.

10.09.2010» Snoopy bookmarklet: View-source on iPhone/iPad

Snoopy is a bookmarklet for snooping on web pages. It's intended for use on mobile browsers (such as Mobile Safari on the iPad) where you can't view-source to poke around under the hood of sites to see how they're built.

03.09.2010» A Typographic Anatomy Lesson

Ligature, Loop & Stem have produced a great print with an overview of all you need to know about typographic anatomy.

31.08.2010» Practical Guide to Designing with Data

Brian Suda takes you on a journey through the basics and makes it easy to produce beautiful looking, accurate representations of data.

24.08.2010» Audio: John Gruber & Jim Coudal at SXWX

Hour-long MP3 audio of John Gruber and Jim Coudal speaking at SXSW earlier this year.

21.08.2010» The First Digital Camera (1975)

Kodak engineer Steve Sasson talks about how he created the first digital camera in December 1975.

10.08.2010» The origins of abc

We see it every day on signs, billboards, packaging, in books and magazines; in fact, you are looking at it now — the Latin or Roman alphabet, the world’s most prolific, most widespread abc.

28.07.2010» Inspiration: Graphic Designer Theo Rosendorf

An interview with Theo Rosendorf at Herman Miller’s Lifework Blog. There he shares his home office.

30.05.2010» Print designers vs. screen designers

There is this idea that there are print designers and screen designers — you are one or the other, you can’t be both, or neither, or some hybrid. This is a false dichotomy.

29.04.2010» The State of Web Development 2010

Second “State of Web Development” survey of professional web designers and developers covering technologies, techniques, philosophies and practices that today’s web professionals employ.