Get inspired by business cards over on flickr
Now this is one heck of a nice find. Get some ideas, then go do something interesting.
Stewart Butterfield resigns from flickr/yahoo
You really have to wonder how a resignation letter like this winds up on the internet. But, it is great material for the folks over at Valleywag isn’t it! For a brief time I worked with Stewart as we tried to sort out the flickr/imagekind partnership. I found him to be an interesting, slightly eccentric character who has a real passion for doing things the right way. This letter makes the guy sound borderline crazy but I rather prefer to think he’s just an artsy guy living in the much-too-pragmatic world of the Silicon Valley. Had he been a follower of standard convention, we might never have gotten our flickr at all.
You won’t find these auto classifieds on MySpace…
You just have to love www.asmallworld.net
This is certainly the social network of the over achievers. I was going through their auto classifieds today because sometimes there are some interesting cars. But, I just couldn’t help but smile as I was noticing the listings today.
Let’s see. Just on this one page we’ve got a Lamborghini Reventon for 2 100 000 USD, an SLR Roadster for 430,000 euros, a McLaren F1 LM engine, and a Bugatti Veyron. You won’t see that kind of activity on Facebook my friends.
Getting your onscreen type just right.
I hate the type engine in Photoshop. The font sizes in your mock-ups do not reflect the font sizes you’ll actually use when trying to replicate your design. What’s a person to do? Well, in my case I keep Typetester nearby and I’ll occasionally remind myself of a few typography tips just to insure I stay creative along the way. As I get close to a “final”, I’ll compare various type styles on typetester, then grab my final chosen CSS selectors and create a new HTML document using those type selectors. I’ll then enter my placeholder text in my little the html page snippet and finally cut/paste that content directly into Photoshop. Doing this in your final step insures your chosen type in your designs mirror the CSS code EXACTLY. I’ll always go one final step further to get it exactly right. I’ll actually type the CSS into the final comp to really hammer the point home. It usually looks something like this:
The Yahoo Stencil Kit
My good friend Steve Lacey has settled in to the bliss that is being part of the Google development organization but he kindly sent me a link to some fantastic user interface design widgets that he knew I’d love. He was right.
