February 2009
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Color shifting in images →
Slideshow Pro creator Todd Dominey’s short refresher on colour profiles in the Flash Player. In short, use the sRGB colour space for best image fidelity across multiple platforms, and if your audience has Flash Player 10 installed, turn on colour correction inside your Flash content to bypass the browser’s colour rendering and use the monitor’s ICC profile instead.
A sidenote:...
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“There’s an Oscar for pretty much every aspect of filmmaking, except one: the...”
– Emily Oberman and Bonnie Siegler of design agency Number Seventeen NYC pick their nominees for Best Achievement in Film Title Design. (via Khoi Vinh)
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Second Sight →
Philip Matthews, the New Zealand Listener’s best past film reviewer, has been keeping a blog that no one told me about. Short, perceptive writing about film, consider me subscribed. (via Ant Timpson)
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“It takes a lot of nerve for a four and a half hour TV show to give out an award...”
– David Letterman on the Oscars. (via Michael Green)
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WatchYankee Gal is a short film created by freelance animators Antoine Perez, Céline Desrumaux, Francois Pons and Gary Levesque during a course at Supinfocom animation school in 2008.
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“This is what the big numbers in Dashboard page URLs are for… I always love the...”
– Tumblr’s Marco Arment on the way the Dashboard prevents newly posted items from disturbing its pagination flow. I have noticed and loved this feature for some time. It’s up there with the way Tumblr rewrites search URLs containing query strings (to remove them), and — as previously noted...
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Read Between The Leading →
Formerly “Name Our Design Show”, this is a new audio podcast by Aaron Heth and Matt McInerney, both design students at the Savannah College of Art & Design. Episode 3 is out, and — slight audio quality issues aside — the lads are hitting their stride nicely.
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WatchFlickermood 2.0 by Sebastian Lange. A superb, monochromatic experimental type animation featuring text fragments from the poem Mutability by Percy Shelley. Now featured on Nice Type.
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jQTouch →
David Kaneda has alpha released his replacement for iUI, a Webkit-based HTML+CSS framework that mimics the iPhone’s native “sliding panels” interface. Unlike iUI, David’s code is written for jQuery, and also makes use of Mobile Safari’s native animated transitions, greatly increasing its responsiveness when running on the device. I’ll be switching TumblePhone to...
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TDC² 2009 Winners →
The Type Directors Club pick their winners from 165 entries across 26 countries. Klimax by Ondrej Jób caught my eye in the Display category, as did most of the Text faces, including two from New Zealand typeface designer Kris Sowersby. (via Matt McInerney)
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Tumblr Notes →
Tumblr Staff:
We’re about to start rolling out a bunch of features focused on interaction between tumblelog authors and their readers. Post notes are going to be the glue for all of this interaction…
This is a long-awaited and much-anticipated announcement, and more or less negates the need for my Tumblr Notes plugin. The only real difference is that with this official solution,...
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WatchTrailer for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I like that Bay’s people are posting his stuff to Vimeo, but doesn’t this count as commercial content? From the Community Guidelines:
We do not allow you to upload videos that are commercial in nature…
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Re: some truly epic shit
bmichael:
1. You have one of the best-looking tumblrs I’ve ever seen. 2. Did you make the new Ford F150 commercials?
Thanks, very nice of you to say. And no, the videos in Nice Type aren’t mine, just some I admire.
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Nice Type →
Shameless promo for my Vimeo channel, showcasing the best typographical explorations and oddities on the site. If you’re a Vimeo user and spot anything that belongs in Nice Type, drop me a line.
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“I love URLs. I dream about them at night. I think about them before I think...”
– Adrian Holovaty of EveryBlock at Webstock 09. (via Joshua Porter)
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“The middle of an article should reflect the solitariness of reading with a...”
– Mandy Brown writes in defense of readers for A List Apart, with great advice about minimising the interruptions that can divert our attention (sidebars, pullquotes) while reading long passages online.
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Symbol Signs →
The complete set of 50 passenger/pedestrian symbols developed by AIGA is available on the web for the first time, free of charge, in vector and bitmap formats. The first set of 34 symbols was published in 1974, with a further 16 symbols added in 1979. (via Matt McInerney)
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Scaling Background à la Brendan →
Justin Oullette:
I hereby release this source code into the public domain. No strings attached, no attribution necessary, make something cool.
Justin has also released the source to the sliding panel navigation used on his new Normative site. Both are written for the Mootools framework, but it wouldn’t take much to port them to another.
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“It is not only that this law denies the accused any due process, it is that it...”
– Russell Brown with a backgrounder on section 92(A) of New Zealand’s soon-to-be-enacted new copyright legislation that will require internet service providers to summarily disconnect the accounts of users even accused of repeated copyright infringement. Twitter users are blacking out their...
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“We don’t want another new UI, XHTML and CSS export, a JavaScript pop-up menu...”
– Nathan Pitman’s open letter to developers encourages them to create a light-weight competitor to Adobe’s Fireworks, the latest version of which has major bugs that remain unpatched five months after its release. I’m a Fireworks devotee since version 1.0; its approach is streets...
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“Joe 90 with boobs.”
– Russell Brown’s short review of Dollhouse.
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Doctor Octoroc begins a series of 80s theme song...
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Open Baskerville →
Simon Pascal Klein’s open-source project to create a digital revival of the famous “Baskerville” typefaces. The font will be licensed under either the Open Font License or the GNU GPL version 3. Klein’s background post has more. (via Johno Boardley)
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Most Anticipated Films of 2009 →
Michael Green sidesteps some more obvious choices (Watchmen, Avatar) and picks his nine most anticipated films for the year. New works from Scorsese, Tarantino, the Coens and Wes Anderson feature, and he’s supplemented the list with 18 further choices also showing promise.
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“We celebrate influence in the arts, we think it’s important and essential. But...”
– Milton Glaser comes down somewhat harshly against what he terms Shepard Fairey’s “appropriation” of photographic works in the creation of his iconic poster art.
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“New Slang” by The Shins. Garden State...
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WatchFleet Foxes also by Vincent Moon, for A Take Away Show.
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WatchBowerbirds sing “La Denigracion” in the back of a van, shot by Vincent Moon during the CMJ festival in New York, September 2007. (via Ethan Marcotte)
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“How much control can … you expect to have when you upload your photos into a...”
– Justin Oullette (of Muxtape fame) is adding authentication to his minimalist Flickr viewer, I Hardly Know Her. A user complaint around the re-publishing of photos spurred some pertinent questions concerning the service: for example, if the view into a Flickr user’s photos isn’t generated...
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“Eple” by Röyksopp, from Melody A.M. (via A Common...
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State Scope Image Replacement →
Paul Young has devised a clever JavaScript method for detecting if a browser is set to display images, and dynamically adding a class to the <html> element to reflect this state. CSS is then used to perform image replacement only when images are visible, solving one of the most common issues with other replacement methods: they fail to display any content when image loading is disabled. A...
