A transmission from the deep south.
A discourse on the process of designing for real people, from Joshua Porter and Joshua Brewer. I love seeing this sort of project built on Tumblr, and Brewer has included some sweet design details, including the 1–52 navigation in the header, linking to articles tagged for each week.
Useful tips from Paul Irish.
Look, don’t sweat it, Dan. You’re writing for Newsweek, the premier magazine Americans turn to for week-old news when they’re sold out of Time. That’s what counts.
— John Gruber does some pwning of his own.
“Come Monday Night” from the forthcoming eponymous album God Help The Girl, a new girl-group side project imagined by Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch and fronted by vocalist Catherine Ireton. Some background from Murdoch is on his Guardian blog. The album, which includes a couple of Belle and Sebastian covers, is out June 22. From the PR site:
The result is a breathtaking record from one of pop’s most singular voices, combining the strengths and feel of the early Belle and Sebastian records in a broader musical palette, which draws equally on musicals, sixties’ girl groups, eighties’ indie and, most of all, classic pop records.
Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are blog just launched. (via Matt Rubin)
One of the best typography sites around realigns, no longer following a strictly-blog format. Gorgeous.
“Unchanged since 2002. Now completely new.” And worth waiting for, what a superb new look. Plus, they’ve snuck out their Favourite Typefaces of 2008 unnoticed by me.
David Kaneda’s new project, a tumblelog focussed on Apple’s WebKit browser framework, and in particular its use in the mobile space. Some good tricks and techniques here already.
Talking about meeting people who speak in sentences and have complicated lives and make great things and care about a lot of the same stuff you do. That’s the thing.
— Merlin Mann on the importance of getting face to face with one’s heroes.
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