I shamelessly promote Firefox as the browser of choice, so here’s another post about it. I’ve been testing pre-releases of the next version for some time, and the other day the latest revision brought Aero support on Windows meaning the chrome has a sexy transparent look. This could all change before Firefox 4 gets released later this year but I think it’s looking good, and is very fast and stable too.
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Information Architects (iA) have released a new web trends map, this time showing the 140 most influential people on Twitter. I don’t like Twitter — that’s probably why you won’t find me listed in the top 140 — I do however like this cosmic map. It’s nice to see some intellectual people, web designers/developers etc. listed on it, and not just massively over hyped celebrities who are famous for making noise. Be sure to check out the previous maps too. The iA blog is also an example of how bigger than average text can work well on websites. It’s million times nicer and easier to read than most.
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I stumbled upon Letterheady, a website dedicated to old letterheads. It is interesting to see how dominating some of the designs are compared to most letterheads today, with some of them appearing more like ads that writing material.
Every six months The Work Club commission an artist to decorate their 22 foot studio wall. Recently that opportunity went to illustrator and designer Matt Williams. Watch the video then take a closer look at the wall.
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We get a lot of visitors to our website and blog each month so like to look at the stats to see which pages are popular. We’ve got a bit of a competition running in the office to write most popular blog story (I’m losing by quite a way, although mine are far more interesting!). I also want to optimise our client’s websites as effectively as possible to ensure good search engine ranking. For this reason it’s useful to be able to look at where visitors come from in a number of different and inventive ways. Read more
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I like the simple executions of this idea ‘a perfect world’. This series of illustrations highlights everyday annoyances by pointing out what it would be like if everything went our way. This on-going project that was started by Catrina Dulay. I’d imagine as designer, born with the perfectionist gene, you could run quite far with this idea.
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I created a Photosynth of the Guernsey Photography Festival photo cube. It is my first synth proved to be the perfect subject. Photosynth very cleverly takes a collection on photos and plots them in 3D by looking for related points in each image. You click the images to navigate the space, zoom in and out, look around objects and be free to explore. Whilst there are a couple of little quirks the overall result is very good.
View the live Synth below or view a larger version.
You’ll need the free Silverlight player installed if you want to see it in action.
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Something caught my eye yesterday when looking at a photo of Number 10 Downing Street. It wasn’t the fact that there were two Prime Ministers, David Cameron with his blue tie, Nick Clegg with yellow (perhaps given time they will wear striped ties?) — No, it was something that only the typographic geek in me would notice. The number 1 is too big, or perhaps more likely the 0 is too small, and seeing how poorly crafted it is, looks like it was a rush job!
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