THE CARPHONE WAREHOUSE - A Brief History

A while back I linked to this video. Earlier today I saw this Carphone Warehouse advert and thought I recognised the style. Great to see some creative talent being put to good use.

QuickLook Folder

An excellent plugin for QuickLook that gives you the ability to see the content of a Folder.
(Via The Weekly Review.)

10 Great Free Fonts for @font-face embedding

10 Great Free Fonts for @font-face embedding.
This looks like an excellent resource for something I’ll be looking to tryout in the not too distant future.

Productivity in Academia - An Interview with Dezene Huber

The Weekly Review has an interesting interview with a guy called Dezene Huber. I was particularly struck with the paragraph quoted below in regard to Dezene’s and his family’s approach to life.
Satisfaction means that we don’t try to make material possessions the source of our joy. Rather, the things that we already have and [...]

Tubes

One of my most popular pages is a link I posted last October to a iPhone formatted map for the London underground. When I took a look at the Google search page I found another useful looking link. Tubes is a webapp, again formatted for the iPhone, which poles for updates on the [...]

If You Were a Typeface…

If You Were a Typeface… is the question Jason Santa Maria has been asking on his blog.
I’ve been trying to think what I would be for most of the day, but I’m not having much luck yet. I’ll be sure to post when I do. In the mean time, pop over and have [...]

Handwritten Typographers

Handwritten Typographers is an interesting look into the handwriting behind some famous typographers. I found it particularly interesting how little quirks and elements of the writing appeared more prominently in the typefaces.
Via Daring Fireball

Ars on Mozilla Weave

Ars Technica takes a look at the new Mozilla Weave feature for syncing Firefox.
I’ve been looking at and trying Weave out in a trial of FF3 this last week and it seems quite impressive. I’ll reserve judgement until I can compare it to using MobileMe and my preferred browser, Safari.

WordPress To Disable Remote Access

Daniel Jalkut’s take on Wordpress’ decision to close the API for external editors by default. One thing is for sure, they’ve just made a decision for me. Time to port my blog to TXP.
Also worth considering: if a service is disabled by default for security considerations, what message does that send to people [...]

Bullit NetNewsWire Style

Cameron Hunt has released a NetNewsWire theme called Bullit.
Bullit is the style I developed to read my RSS feeds on NetNewsWire. Clarity and readability were the most important factors. Bullit uses 70% (and up to 700px) width for the reading column. Body copy is 13px Lucida Grande.
I’ve installed it and have to say it really [...]

Sumo Sac

Sumo have another “I’d like one of those”. This time it’s the Sumo Sac and it’s absolutely massive. Ranging from 4ft wide to 6ft wide and always 3ft high, this thing looks amazing. I’ve wanted an Omni for ages, but sadly there isn’t the space, so certainly not the space to have [...]

Typography Tuesday: Hierarchy

Viget’s Inspire blog has an excellent article outlining the importance of hierarchy on the net. Some elements of it are also a good reminder for those who a primarily print based in their design.
Visual Hierarchy is the arrangement of elements in a gradual series in order of importance, enticing users to interact with a [...]

Fluid Icons

For those people who use Fluid to make site specific browser, you should check out Chris Ivarson’s Fluid icons.
I particularly like the Google Docs icon he recently completed, fits the bill very nicely.

Things Touch

As an avid user of Things I wanted to bring this to your attention. The guys at Cultured Code are working on a version for the iPhone.
One of the things I like about the post was the way they allowed a sneak peek of what is to come. The sketches and drawings are [...]

Arjan van der Gaag’s Things Screencasts

Arjan van der Gaag’s Things screencasts album are an excellent resource for the beginner Things user or someone who uses it daily but has overlooked some of the features. I particularly like the Mail and File links, I’m sure they will make things a lot easier at work.

Spaces in 10.5.3

John Gruber outlines the changes to Spaces in 10.5.3. I’ve put them to test, because although I used Spaces I did get annoyed by the swapping by changing to an app.
John did miss something though. If you have an application bound to a space, it’s preference is still respected. If I have [...]

Remote tribe found in Brazil

A remote tribe has been found in Brazil and photographed to prove their existence.

It is understood that when the plane first overflew the village, the people scattered into the forest. When it returned a few hours later they had painted themselves red and fired arrows into the sky.
I was reading about this on my lunch [...]

Why Apple will sell 10 million iPhones

Interesting article answering the nay-sayers who think Apple will fail in their goal to sell 10 million iPhones.
I believe Apple will make the goal with ease, especially if you take into account the 29 new countries the device will go on sale in. That’s a massive market with potential customers in.

Interview With Jonathan Ive

Everyone knows I”m an Apple fan and I like to keep informed on the news. One of the big things I like is the design, and when I come across an interview with the man behind the design, I pretty much drop everything and read it. I’d like to meet Jonathan someday, he [...]

Design Will Define You (Whether You Embrace It or Not)

Excellent piece about design and its significance.

Good design is an essential part of every interaction, every touchpoint, every service opportunity, every creative endeavor, and every communication between your organization & your customers/guests.
I like the above quote, it sums up the importance of design well, at least in my view and is something we shall all [...]