March 2008
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The Raconteurs →
New album Consolers of the Lonely has been released without much fanfare. Buy it on the site. Or not.
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Color Palette Generator →
A fast, easy way to extract a colour palette from any image. See also ColorBlender, ColorSchemer, Adobe’s Kuler and Wellstyled’s Color Scheme 2. (via Rowan Simpson)
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She & Him →
M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel team up for a debut album entitled Volume One. An intriguing combination, with Ward producing and Deschanel writing much of the music. We had no idea. The sample track is pretty good. (via Jared Christensen)
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South Park Studios →
Every episode of South Park in full, online, accessible by a worldwide audience. Bravo. (via UX Mag)
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“His adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley is both justly acclaimed and...”
– Screenwriter John August on the death of director Anthony Minghella. I was not a fan of his other work, but he’s right about Ripley, terrific film.
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A transmission from the deep south →
It may well be a five-minute fad, but here’s some songs I like.
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WatchTalented young icon designer Bobby Andersen gives an (unrehearsed) talk at C[4] on how he used Cinema 4D to create the QLab icon. Andersen is responsible for the icon sets on last.fm and tumblr.com among others, and is now employed by Apple.
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Geotag Icon Project →
In the style of the now ubiquitous RSS feed icon, a new Geotag icon intended to identify geotagged content to humans. (via Amanda Wheeler)
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“I remained boggled as to why this has been a consistent design decision.”
– Dan Cederholm raises a bug with the IE8 team in respect to its continued refusal to resize text specified in pixel units. Some heated discussion on relative versus absolute sizing follows.
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960 Grid System →
A nice-looking grid reference and toolkit for website designers. (via Darren Wood)
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La Dernière Miette →
My sister’s new foodie blog.
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Muxtape →
Create a mixtape and share it. (via Lee Majors)
Quotably →
Follow Twitter conversations.
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60 Brilliant Typefaces for Corporate Design →
A nice companion selection to last year’s list of 80.
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WatchMichael Bierut talks to The Atlantic about typography, Stanley Kubrick, The Catcher in the Rye and his 2007 publication containing 79 short stories. Virginia Postrel’s companion piece Playing to Type is a good read too. (via John Gruber)
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Webstock 2008 videos →
Most of Webstock’s sessions are now available as MP4 downloads. Unfortunately the thoroughly entertaining hour-and-a-half epic from Damian Conway was not recorded (at the presenter’s request). See him in the flesh if you ever get the chance. Jason Santa Maria’s presentation on the problems with presenting content in a strictly templated environment was a highlight also.
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“That’s classic Sherman Antitrust Act behavior. It’s called tying,...”
– Emusic CEO David Pakman isn’t wild about Apple’s reported plan to bundle unlimited iTunes music store access with iPods.
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“Stanley on phone, worried about ending… gave him my latest ideas, and one...”
– From Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001 diary. Rest easy. (via John Gruber)
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“Following today’s court order, Larry Ellison has eliminated the...”
– Alinghi lawyer Lucien Masmejan in a statement following State Supreme Court Judge Herman Cahn’s ruling that the Swiss team must race BMW Oracle in a Deed of Gift match in 2009. This effectively means New Zealand’s next chance to race for the Auld Mug will be in 2011.
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Newzald: From Moleskine to Market →
I lied, another Kris Sowersby link from last week recorded for posterity, wherein he discusses his process for type creation. I love the little details, for example he always begins a new face by drawing the “n” letterform.
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“Twitter really became the story and storyteller of the conference.”
– Jason Santa Maria records the decline in blogging and photography at this year’s SxSW conference.
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WatchThe Typesetter, a short film by Willoughby Sharp. Lovely, ghostly monochromatic visuals.
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“The answer is that Aperture stood up to the test. It did the job. And it did it...”
– James Duncan Davidson gives Aperture 2.0 a pass mark after processing roughly 11,000 photos from two assignments.
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The Desktop Wallpaper Project →
Presented by Kitsune Noir. New wallpapers every Wednesday, background here.
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“Twitter is a service that broadcasts error messages on the internet.”
– Tom Coates at Webstock. Still laughing about that.
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Cutting “The Wire” →
Salon.com interview with series creator David Simon following the conclusion of the show’s fifth (and final) season.
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“In its original form, the mark was an open C crossed by a vertical line or two,...”
– Jonathan Hoefler clarifies the provenance of the pilcrow or paragraph mark.
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“Twitter is golf for nerds.”
– Merlin Mann via Twitter 