Web Round Up
There is a lot cool stuff out on the web, but it can be hard to find if you don’t know what or who to search for. I plan to round up resources and neat things from around the web so that you can be inspired and learn something. I hope to provide resources on inspiration, design and code.
Inspiration
Film by Carlos Alejandro showing off House Industries Fonts
Fifty and Fifty is a curated project which attempts to construct a handsome new way of looking at our country. Fifty designers, one per state, will illustrate their state motto, creating something steeped in history but completely modern and unique: a kind of designer’s atlas.
Wordmarks from a private stock of predigital lettering scoured from low resolution archives, personally converted to bezier outlines.
Rare photos of celebrities and famous personalities.
Design
Optimize Your Web Design Workflow
Learn to use things like snap to grid, styles, and swatches to optimize your workflow.
Business Objectives vs. User Experiences
Trying to find the balance between the user and business requirements.
A cool project that allows you to download cool icons for free.
Refactoring defined and how it can pertain to design.
Frank Chimero: The Shape of Design
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/17084347[/vimeo]
Code
Logic-less templates with Mustache
Allows for logic-less templating for iterating over JSON. Available in ton of languages.
Ever think to your self “This page needs a Velociraptor.” Look no further.
Allows you to write your CSS in LESS syntax and compiles it for you.
It’s like ZenCoding but allows you to travel up and down the DOM
The missing package manager for OSx
