Der New Yorker Designer Karl Zahn hat mit Slide eine Pendelleuchte entworfen, bei der man nicht nur die Helligkeit, sondern auch den Lichtkegel steuern kann. Die Metallspangen werden durch ein umlaufendes Band zusammen gehalten und je nach Position wird der Schirm geöffnet oder geschlossen. (via Stilsucht.de)
The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Ed. Free textbooks written by more than 100 leading designers, bestselling authors, and Ivy League professor...
The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and are served by Google servers.
There are tools that make our lives much easier. However, finding those obscure time-savers which would save time in every single project isn't easy and requires a lot of time. At Smashing Magazine, we are regularly looking for such useful tools, gather them, review them and eventually prepare for a truly smashing round-up. Such posts are quite lengthy and extensive, but they are always worth checking out.
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Designers have coveted print for its precision layouts, lamenting the varying user contexts on the web that compromise their designs. Ethan Marcotte advocates we shift our design thinking to approp…
Nach dem kleinen Schränkerücken gibt es das Design Tagebuch nun auch auf Facebook. Wer bislang im Blog mitgelesen hat, und meine eher vorsichtige Haltung im Umgang mit den sozialen Netzwerken kennt, der mag sich nun vielleicht fragen, wie es dazu kam. Zur Entstehungsgeschichte habe ich etwas auf der unten verlinkten Facebook-Seite geschrieben. Einige werden sich vielleicht ja noch an mein 1 ...
Israel is a young country with an old heart. It has been quickly built up over the last 60 years as an independent democratic Jewish state and is shockingly cutting edge for a country so new. What’s unique about Israeli web design?
After buying the book "Penguin By Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005". I started searching local book stores and online for some of the old Penguin and Pelican books. Here's what I have so far. "Seven Hundred Penguins" is another great book that shows an amazing collection of 700 book covers Do not grab my images and repost them on your flickr page.
I had the opportunity to work with some very talented and highly experienced designers who all had made the jump from other design fields to the Web. It was there, as part of that training, that I learned about **critiquing**, both giving and receiving, through regular design reviews.