Flexible grid & flexible images

By akie

Open this web page and resize it - from iPhone-size to XXL. Notice how the design changes based on how much space is available. Notice how the images scale based on big your screen is. Explained here and here (thanks A List Apart!).

Cool logo

By akie

Yowzers! By Richard Fonteneau (1, 2).

Web typography solved

By akie

When choosing a font for use on a website, you are restricted to one of the 15 or so “web fonts“. That sucks. The only way you can use a different font is by resorting to hacks such as Cufon, sIFR or FLIR.

But if you do that, you’ve only solved half the problem. You’re still in muddy waters regarding the licensing of the fonts you’re using, possibly opening yourself to future litigation. And, whether you choose Cufon, sIFR or FLIR, the text that’s in a different font will behave differently than ‘regular’ text. You can’t select it, copy it or edit it like ‘regular’ text. That’s because it’s not regular text. It’s  a Javascript image, Flash movie, or plain image - respectively. That sucks!

Fortunately, there’s a solution for that: the CSS3 @font-face tag. It allows you to set the font of any given text on your web page. If the user does not have the font you indicated, it will be downloaded and used. It even works cross-browser.

So only the legal issue remains. Obviously, you can’t redistribute high quality commercial fonts like Minion or ITC Franklin Gothic. The companies holding the rights won’t allow it, and probably rightfully so.

So what to do? As Mark Pilgrim so eloquently stated: Fuck the foundries. If we can’t legally use their fonts on a web page, then we’ll have to look for high quality fonts that we CAN use on a web page.

And that’s when I came across Font Squirrel, and I must say: I LOVE IT! Free high quality fonts that you can use on your website. 100% free for commercial use. No licensing issues! Just what web typography needed

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Design hell

By akie

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Reminds me of this earlier post.

The art & science of seductive interactions

By akie

Stephen Anderson talks about creating seductive interactions and how to create passionate users. Highly recommended.

6 secrets of persuasion

By akie

(in dutch)

Lees “De zes geheimen van verleiding“. Verplichte kost!

Clock with an attitude

By akie

I really like this clock. Buy it here.

389 years ago…

By akie

Impressive graphic from wallstats.com

Full image here.

Fancy Rubik’s cube

By akie

Rubitone is a Rubik’s cube with Pantone colors. It’s brilliant - but not for sale.

Corporate logos, remixed

By akie

Mario Amaya has remixed some corporate logos. The result is quite amazing:

Check out all logos in part 1 and part 2.

Creative ASCII/font art

By akie

I really like this ‘font art’ of dead movie stars. Here’s Marilyn Monroe:

Three more at Walyou.com

Creative barcodes

By akie

I like these creative Japanese barcodes. Click to view all.

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15 cool websites

By akie

Ok, not all, but still I really dig YouLove.us and Volll, but the others seem promising as well.

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User Interface design for programmers

By akie

Joel, from Joel on Software, has written a book on user interface design for programmers. It’s available online, for free. Go read it.
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Jetsons car

By akie

I found this fantastic site about the Peel microcar, originally built in the early sixties. It looks like it’s straight from the Jetsons.

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Beautiful zen garden

By akie

Found on Flickr

Country logos

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source

15 great examples of web typography

By akie

Take a look at this beautiful text-only website.

More examples here.

Cool typeface

By akie

Now that’s a cool font Don’t miss the making of.

Bring bad design to justice

By akie

Design Police is an effort to bring bad design to justice. I like their “Visual Enforcement Kit“.