Music is My Boyfriend

Posted on May 29, 2008 by C Lin
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I was reading a blog post about the relationship designers have with music on Design Observer. Adrian Shaughnessy writes: “I’ve never worked in a design studio where music wasn’t being played pretty much constantly… What is it with graphic designers and music?” Adrian has a good point. The image of a room full of designers with headphones on while staring at the computer screen is almost becoming cliché.

The Best Photoshop Resource Yet

Posted on March 28, 2008 by B Juergens
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Photoshop can be, at times, cumbersome with each new edition, although this is not to say completely futile. What commences as a brief look into creating conceptual art, culminates into an exceptional discovery. PSDTUTS.com is anything and everything Photoshop related. Lessons range from applying realistic tattoos, retouching facial imperfections, creating conceptual art, building seamless collages, fine tuning techniques of illustration, to making rad text effects. PSDTUTS is not only a prime resource for Photoshop tutorials, but it is also an online community where readers have the opportunity to suggest topics and even write in for paid publishing on the site. Definitely a hot resource right now.

Kinematic Typography

Posted on March 27, 2008 by B Juergens
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Found: the most compelling art form for both typographers and laymen alike. People of various significance in the art world have taken famous cinematic scenes and re-created them using motley typefaces along with audio to showcase the enigmatic effect on our psyche.

A Designer’s New Year’s Resolutions

Posted on December 27, 2007 by C Johnson
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As yet another year yawns before us and we stare at the blank pages of 2008 wondering just what we’ll be adding to them in the months to come, we are reminded the ghosts of new years resolutions past and make it our resolve to, this year, really follow through. No, seriously. We really do mean it this time.

Honest.

So we’ve planted our tongue firmly in cheek and gathered a list of resolutions that might well resonate with our neighbors in the design community.

New iPhone Retailing for $200 Less

Posted on September 6, 2007 by C Johnson
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Well, we all knew the bomb would drop sooner or later. I just don’t think any of us realized how big a bombshell it would be or how soon it would drop! Yesterday, Steve Jobs announced an 8GB iPhone with a 2-year wireless plan retailing for $200.00 less than the original iPhone. (Incidentally, if you were a front-of-the-queue iPhone adopter, your phone isn’t even 100 days old yet!)

7 Steps to Understanding Your Co-workers

Posted on September 4, 2007 by C Johnson
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Confession: I am a selfish person.

Newsflash: so are you.

Now don’t go getting your knickers in a twist over it—that wasn’t meant maliciously. In fact, if your feathers are ruffled well, it only goes to prove Scott Young’s recent blog about human behavior: no one thinks more about you than you do. (Not even your mum!) Scott’ Young’s blog is aimed at presenting his thoughts on how to get the best out of life, and his recent seven “rules” to understanding behavior are meant to explore the underlying factors behind “personal clashes” and “emotional upsets.”

I’d Rather Be Called a Nerd

Posted on July 12, 2007 by C Lin
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Most people interchange the words ‘nerd’ and ‘geek’ as often as they interchange words like ‘dinner’ and ‘supper’ or ‘i.e.’ and ‘e.g.’— each of which are very different and really not interchangeable at all.So to end the dispute, I consulted the handy-dandy bible of slang: urbandictionary.com. (I want to personally thank the person who invented this site because I can use it in situations like this, heh.)

That’s MY Girlfriend…

Posted on June 28, 2007 by C Johnson
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If you’re like me, then the words ‘how do people come up with this stuff’ are never far from your lips when perusing the blogosphere. Sometimes it’s said in horror, sometimes in envy, but always in very real awe over what some of our fellow bloggers are able to dream up.

CSS Zen Garden

Posted on June 13, 2007 by Tuesday Creative
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Create one HTML page, invite designers from around the world to style it using only CSS and images. This is CSS Zen Garden—an exploration of the power and variety of standards-compliant design. There are over 200 designs posted to date, all styling the same in one HTML page (really!).

I Want My Moleskine

Posted on June 4, 2007 by C Lin
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A lot of my classmates in art school and even a couple of co-workers not only prefer Moleskine notebooks, but are Moleskine enthusiasts. Apparently they are not the only ones. I found the story of a travelling Moleskine project where notebooks are sent to various places around the world and anonymous individuals fill their pages. The pages are then scanned and posted on the blog. Also Paul Saffo, a fellow enthusiast, collaborated with Steve Derricott to fashion a custom leather Moleskine cover. P.S. If you’re wondering how to pronounce the word ‘Moleskine’, check out the Wikipedia entry.

Also, check out the travel blog and results of the custom cover here:

The Wandering Moleskine Project

Custom Leather Moleskine Cover