July 16, 2014 at 6:12 pm -- POST

233 Days

For shame. I’m glad I’ve never called myself a blog­ger. I’m pret­ty sure seven months and twen­ty days is too long of a break between posts. Luckily, I’ve been work­ing on stuff. Here’s a recap.

November 25, 2013 at 10:06 pm -- POST

This Week’s Tabs

A new user inter­face — code­named Australis — is in the pipeline for Firefox. Looking good. #WorkCanWait — find that work/life bal­ance An easy to fol­low intro­duc­tion to CSS flexbox. 53 per­cent of the time Waldo is hid­ing with­in… (via Kottke) ish. — a pret­ty sweet view­port resiz­er. Hay! mode for the win. (via Sidebar) Read More > >

November 9, 2013 at 11:49 pm -- POST

This Week’s Tabs

BETTER EMAIL BRAULIO from Thundertiger on Vimeo. Some fun posters, cards, and stick­ers with great type — Fifty Five Hi’s Type Fight — Two let­ters enter, one let­ter leaves. Colin Tierney — Awesome port­fo­lio with some great let­ter­ing 84 high qual­i­ty scans of wood type alpha­bets How well do you know your brand blues? (And other hues) Read More > >

October 16, 2013 at 11:04 am -- POST

Brand Typeface by Maximiliano Sproviero - Soft Chancery Cursive Script Excerpt Preview

Headline Heads Up — No. 21

While I was busy and could­n’t post the last cou­ple of months, other peo­ple and foundries were releas­ing awe­some dis­play type­faces. Here’s a look at seven recent releas­es worth con­sid­er­ing for your design tool­box. It’s a lit­tle heavy on the hand-drawn hand­writ­ing style, but there’s still some fun scripts in there too.

September 17, 2013 at 9:12 pm -- POST

This Week’s Tabs

Magazines are not dead. Especially when they are well designed. Digest and Codex #3 are great exam­ples. A great behind the scenes by Elliot Jay Stocks on Digest’s typog­ra­phy & grid. Two great typog­ra­phy Tumblrs — Type Novel and Type Hunting What level web devel­op­er are you? Find out at Dungeons & Developers How about cir­cles Read More > >

July 30, 2013 at 9:26 pm -- POST

This Week’s Tabs

Macaw Sneak Peek from Macaw on Vimeo. Want a quick cheat sheet of CSS3 Animations? Here it is. Speaking of ani­ma­tion, a nice exam­ple of a fixed head­er bar that scales on scrolling. A genius UI con­cept, move load­ing indi­ca­tors into the action that trig­gered it. More code — Slide and push menus that appear from off page. Read More > >

July 13, 2013 at 9:58 pm -- POST

The Pixar Theory

Jon Negroni con­nects all the threads and Easter eggs through­out the Pixar uni­verse. Love, apoc­a­lypse, witch­es, time travel.

July 8, 2013 at 9:03 pm -- POST

This Week’s Tabs

Adrift from Simon Christen on Vimeo. A day in the life of a type design­er — a lit­tle to the left, a lit­tle to the right Ready to Inspire Conference — design, type, code (also check out last year’s videos) Pen and ink let­ter­ing — qual­i­ty, robust, serendip­i­ty, tac­tile screensiz.es — great ref­er­ence for width, height, Read More > >