A masterful overview of the two fonts. How they look best and where they've been used.

"A tool for visual layout development of YAML based CSS layouts." YAML stands for Yet Another Multicolumn Layout.

"Striped background generator."

From the masters. Good ideas and inspiration.

An interview with Apple's brilliant product designer, who possesses a "fanatical care beyond the obvious stuff."

Notes on the growing importance of design in business. Good short reads.

A fine review of the trend in minimalism on the web and in technology in general since the late 90s.

A fascinating and in-depth look at the design (mostly typographical) of Toronto's subway system. A long read, but if you're into typography, a great one.

On starting over. "It's better to have something we're both proud off than to try and salvage the work done so far. Sometimes you have to go all the way through the design process before you realize that you've built the wrong thing."

The story behind why the O'Reilly books have animal engravings on them.

Photographed by Dean. "In a bold move, the UMass Office of Information Technologies makes a stand against violating intellectual property rights by....violating intellectual property rights?"

Panic's graphic designer worked out a new design for the Coda toolbar that required the team to write a custom UI widget. Going the extra mile inspired Apple to do the same for Leopard.

Train guard uses gaffer's tape to make informative and nicely-designed signs while construction blocks normal signage and routes. AWESOME!

An awesome collective of creative/design types. A great "About" page.

"Jeffery Zeldman discussed the soft skills that enable designers to get great work out in the world."

Indeed.

A list of corporate and organization identity guidelines. A good sampling of conventions, though many of them are terribly designed and poorly organized.

Design inspiration.

"The need for these distinctions becomes moot, of course, when no secondary actions are present. Make sure you really need each secondary action on a form and don’t add them indiscriminately."

On designing good icons.

She's behind all of The Decemberists' album artwork.

Fantastic.

Use a pulsating orb to "make electricity [usage] visible" and get people thinking about their energy use. Good idea!

"Swedish graphic designer with a passion for typography and minimalism. Currently studying at Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Carlisle, UK. Graduating in July 2007 with a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design, ready to take on the world." Go go go!

Commence the drooling.

An interview with James Victore. "Yes. I’m afraid of everything. I am. But I do them anyway. This is my dharma. This is what I was meant to do. I just want to do a good job."

Embarrassing effects.

"only pipes. only paper. we are piperoid." Pick up when next in Japan.

"Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing."

An awesome designer and animator.