Fine Corinthian Leather
- Sophia Marie Dominey
- A very healthy eight pounds, eleven ounces.
- Dissecting The Process
- or: How an A List Apart Illustration Comes Together, by the illustrator himself, Kevin Cornell.
- simplifier lab
- Phoebe Espiritu’s fine blog on the quest for simplicity and minimalism in design.
- Rogue Librarian: SXSWi Takeaways
- Carrie Bickner Zeldman’s writeup of her SXSW Interactive panel on Digital Preservation and Blogs. See also:
- Digital Preservation Panel at SXSWi
- Librarian Avengers’s notes on the same panel. See also:
- Digital Preservation: What and Whom Are We Saving?
- Bill Anderson’s notes on the same panel.
- Vantan.org
- Personal site of Vanessa Tan, devoted Netizen and musician, blogging from Singapore.
- Aspen Design Summit
- AIGA-sponsored retreat.
- This is Powazek
- Beauteous and well-written site of cofounder of JPG Magazine (and creator of bunches of other fab web content, none of which I need to tell you, ’cause you know)
- Behind the WaSP Redesign
- Designer Clarke discusses creative process. See also:
- WaSP Annual General Meeting
- Transcribed by Muffin Research Labs.
- Does Your Blog Have a Business?
- SXSW Interactive panel transcribed by Auscillate.com.
- CSS Floatutorial
- In CSS layout, float is all. Maxdesign’s step-by-step guide shows how to float elements such as images, drop caps, and next and back buttons to create image galleries, inline lists and multi-column layouts.
- CSS Tweak
- Now with in-page Help! Andy Peatling’s free web-based tool optimizes your CSS files. “It will take any CSS file and optimize the syntax, grouping your style declarations into shorthand where possible. It can also remove comments, and strip whitespace for maximum compression.”
- A brief history of the “clenched fist” image
- Like it says.
- GrayBit v0.5 Beta
- “GrayBit is an online accessibility testing tool designed to visually convert a full-color web page into a grayscale rendition for the purpose of visually testing the page’s perceived contrast.”
- Interior Desecrations
- Horrible home design from the classic halls of Lileks.
- George Bush: I Don’t Know Much About Designing Rugs
- In Design Observer.
- Accessible Web Developers
- A public group at ma.gnolia. Creating accessible (and mobile-friendly) sites.
- Brit Pack
- Proud members.
- More Ma.gnolia Marks
- See all 345 (and counting) of Apartness’s bookmarks.
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