I came across this interesting blog post about uninstalling MS Word and never ever using it again. http://stevenpoole.net/blog/goodbye-cruel-word/ It’s a nice read, though it’s basically a love letter to the new brand of hipster full screen anti-word processors like Writeroom and Scrivner. (These products seem nice for someone who a.) gets to use a Mac [...]
InDesign is Adobe’s prepress, page layout application. It’s intended for the design and production of magazines, books, and other print pieces. It includes some XML support, so it’s forward looking to the time when much of our documents will be data driven (instead of design once, print many, design again print again) Many of the [...]
John Kricfalusi (you know, the Ren & Stimpy guy) has been blogging about cartoon color theory using examples from high art (like Yogi Bear) all the way to low end crap like direct-to-video Disney schlock. If you like art, or cartoons, or are a graphic designer who struggles with color, hese are worth a read: [...]
It’s like they read my mind! Coda 1.0.1 has been released, and one of the features? Local web server URL in the site configuration.
I’m not too proud to go running down the street after the bandwagon. I saw the news that the rock-n-roll software developers at Panic were releasing a web design tool, called “Coda“, so I checked it out, ran the demo, and bought it an hour or two later. I have spent about 12 hours working [...]
I came across this item on Daring Fireball, an Illustrator file which mocks up Safari’s browser chrome for use in creating mockups. http://www.oddlaa.com/extras This is a well executed illustration, and probably will help a lot of folks out. However if you’re doing “web design” completely in Photoshop or Illustrator you will encounter at least three [...]
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http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/ Vector versions of corporate logos (intended for use in mockups, presentations, etc. Not for nefarious evil purposes :-) )
I’ve been reworking the RapidWeaver theme for my site, and it’s coming along well. For any other RapidWeaver fans out there, I basically hijacked the the “Simple” theme and started customizing in my HTML IDE. I’ll probably do a quick write up when I get all the kinks worked out, but till then, one of [...]
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