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Happy 4th of July 2008

For me, it's a day for sleeping in late and walking around a deserted New York City. Here's Zeldman's take. And then, there's the annual Coney Island hot dog binge-fest. [+]

Spread the Foxiness

Help Firefox set a Guinness World record by downloading Firefox 3 on Download Day. Get involved. via WaSP. [+]

DIY 'hoff

Printable PDF lets you make your own poseable David Hasselhoff form his Knight Rider days. I can't think of anything more fun than this! [+]

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Works

On Air Retail Store

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Time Warner's On Air retail store showcased cable, wireless and telephony products and services. I worked in a small team of three, rapidly designing for eight months to create On Air's identity, stationery, print collateral, environmental graphics and signage, packaging, print advertising — even tchotchkes.

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Vintage Elements

One of my favorites, though a limited source, for vintage elements is Chank's dingbat font, CrapMagnet Bonus. Visit Chank.com/freefonts.php for more free fonts. [+]

07.21.2008

Vintage Clip Art Collection

Abundant collection of ornaments, objects, fleurons, decorative borders and mortices with a vintage feel -- most are available for free. Via BriarPress.org [+]

06.22.2008

Design for Ugly

I ran across this tearful and inspirational story about Ugly that reminded me of what I detest about most design. Rather than focusing on our very basic need for meaningful interaction, most designers spend time unnecessarily on superficial elements. Look deeper inside. Focus on the emotional interaction. Design for Ugly. [+]

06.06.2008

The Girl Effect

A viral video about humanity. It's immensely moving, powerful and is what compelling content needs to be. Storytelling in its simplest form: type and maybe a couple of colors. The Girl Effect [+]

05.31.2008

Keeping Up With Social Tagging

An Adobe Connect-based screencast of a presentation on Social Tagging, Social Bookmarking by Thomas Vander Wal, commonly credited for coining the term folksonomy. [+]

05.31.2008

O'Reilly's Programming Menagerie

Thank you Rodrick Brown for making the O'Reilly library available online. [+]

05.17.2008

Shawn van Every

Shawn is genius and I'm glad his students and NYU recognized him with an award. Here's his acceptance speech. [+]

04.22.2008

God is in the Details

...and lately she's been busy at 37 Signals: Designing Details: Autoscrolling the edit state. [+]

02.23.2008

Taggers, Moshers, Skaters— Unite!

Having made it as an official selection for the 2008 SXSW Film Festival, Beautiful Losers is the new Helvetica. Trust me on this one. [+]

02.09.2008

Obama Posters by Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey designs Barack Obama's posters. [+]

01.28.2008

Vector Illustrations of People SIlhouettes

Sure you can try using Illustrator's auto trace feature to get a quick silhouette (that is, if you're lucky enough to have a background-less image to begin with) but why bother? Get free full-length vector illustrations of people silhouettes via StylizedWeb.com. You may also want to look into Subeve, a font option for silhouettes of women, from an earlier post. [+]

01.24.2008

Helvetica The Movie

First-time director Gary Hustwit's much-lauded documentary, Helvetica, is available to view -- in its entirety -- online for free. For reals! Fall in love with typography again. [+]

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