Future of Web Design - New York : More about this later, but for now a brief announcement: I’ll be joining a marvelous crew of speakers at this year’s Future of Web Design in New York, several of whom I’ve known virtually for years but have yet to meet in person. Register now for early bird tickets and save $300. … Read the rest here
Khoi Vinh Resigns as NYTimes.com Design Director : A good friend and long-time inspiration for me, Khoi is moving on: It wasn’t an easy decision. I’ve been at The New York Times for four and a half years now, four and a half years that will doubtless figure prominently in my life for years to come. There were some rough patches, as there are with any job, but on the whole it’s been the best job I’ve ever had…. In the short run, I’ll be doing lots of stuff on a smaller scale: personal projects that I’ve been tinkering with, a few public speaking appearances, a bit of writing (including finishing a book I started earlier this year), some short-term work for companies with whom I’m friendly, and more. … Read the rest here
Font metrics and vertical space in CSS : Tim Brown from Typekit explains the complexities of visible and invisible vertical space between characters when typesetting with CSS. … Read the rest here
Delicious packaging design for Gail’s Artisan Bakery. Comment on this … Read the rest here
Just before noon (Eastern U.S. time) today, An Event Apart Minneapolis sold its last available seat. That’s three events so far in 2010 and three sell-outs. If you were hoping to join us in Minneapolis but hadn’t registered yet, we’re sorry we won’t see you there! You can contact our Event Manager to get put on the waiting list, or you can join us for one of the remaining two shows of the year: Washington DC and San Diego . There are strong reasons to prefer either one. In Washington DC , we’ll have our second-ever A Day Apart , a full day of in-depth learning with Jeremy Keith and Ethan Marcotte taking on the topics of HTML5 and CSS3, respectively… Read the rest here
A hard copy of Jeremy Keith ’s HTML5 For Web Designers arrived in the mail today. It’s wonderful to finally see how well-designed it is as a physical object. Most importantly, it’s the clear explanation of a confusing subject that’s made this little book a must-read. … Read the rest here
Camera+ for iPhone: $253,000 in First-Month Sales : tap tap tap’s Camera+ , which sells for $1.99 in the App Store, sold 217,000 copies in its first month. That’s a quarter-million dollars in one month of sales for an app that sells for two bucks. Is it surprising to anyone that, right now, any mobile platform other than iOS is “ largely out of the consciousness of your average developer ”? BTW, the article, written by founder John Casasanta, contains lots of good advice for those hoping to accomplish the same as tap tap tap. … Read the rest here
Super Mario on Violin … Read the rest here
EPICWIN : A genius concept for an iPhone app: to-do list meets RPG. For a procrastinator like myself, this just might be the ticket to checking things off. … Read the rest here
The Unfathomable Octophant : The latest hand-printed screenprint from Phineas X. Jones. We have this one framed in our dining room. Love the style, detail and craftsmanship. … Read the rest here
Is CSS the New Photoshop? : John Nack, Photoshop’s principal product manager: As people can do more and more in code, it makes sense to ask whether even to use Photoshop in designing Web content. I think Adobe should be freaking out a bit, but in a constructive way…. As for Photoshop, we could either teach the app to speak HTML natively (via live HTML layers ), or we could translate Photoshop-native artwork into HTML (e.g. ‘copy this button/text as HTML/CSS’). It’s not yet clear to me, however, how such code would smoothly integrate into one’s projects… Read the rest here
Inc. Magazine: How to Design and Build a Mobile Website : In which myself and several others offer advice to those diving into mobile. … Read the rest here
“Google is Bringing Android Software Development to the Masses.” : It’s called Google App Inventor for Android , and how’s this for user testing: User testing has been done mainly in schools with groups that included sixth graders, high school girls, nursing students and university undergraduates who are not computer science majors. The chances of anything extraordinary coming of this? About the same as me writing a course for nursing students. Or about the same as useful, elegant websites created by FrontPage . … Read the rest here
In just over seven weeks’ time , Brighton will once again play host to dConstruct . I’m particularly excited about this year’s line-up. As well as the always-awesome Tom , Brendan and Hannah , there will be speakers that I haven’t seen before like Marty Neumeier and David McCandless . Then there’s the dynamic duo of John Gruber and Merlin Mann , no strangers to public speaking or each other. 149 Surprising Ways to Turbocharge Your Blog With Credibility! on Huffduffer I’m really looking forward to hearing Merlin Mann—as my Huffduffing history attests—and not just because he said nice things about Huffduffer . … Read the rest here
Fracture Custom Glass Printing : This is a unique idea: Print your photos on a sheet of glass, ready for mounting. I found out about Fracture’s service through their listing on Authentic Jobs for Web Developer / Visionary / User Interface Guru / Design Master . Pricing is affordable, from $8 for a 5”x7” print up to $25 for 11”x14”. And they’re located just a few hours away in Gainesville, Florida to boot. … Read the rest here
homewrk : homewrk is a photographic “collection of workspaces, art studios, craft rooms, offices and all the little beautiful things that fill them up.” … Read the rest here
Douglas Quin Letterpress LP : This is some beautiful letterpress work by Studio on Fire. Favorited. … Read the rest here
The Scent of Search : Essentially a list of recommendations for searchbox, search results, and query refinement design and layout, this should be unsurprising reading for anyone experienced in designing for search. Nonetheless, it’s a good overview blended with links to related resources. … Read the rest here
Hard Candy Case for iPhone 4 : It’s thin, comes in a few colors, and — most importantly — it’s not rubber. This may be the perfect fix for my Bumper woes . Update: Phil Coffman found another case , less expensive and perhaps even thinner. /via @carlpeterson … Read the rest here
WebINK Font Embedding by Extensis : Another entry into the font embedding market, this one by Extensis. Fonts foundries currently include Mark Simonson Studio, Porchez Typofonderie, TypeTogether, URW, and exljbris. One nice feature seems to be the ability to control kerning within your font settings rather than just through the letter-spacing CSS property. I’m not certain, however, that kerning should be set off-site rather than within the CSS. (Though admittedly, the current CSS/browser support for kerning is lacking considerably.) … Read the rest here