Weekly Roundup: Design Related Links #5

Design + Branding:

• 50 Superb 3D Flash Websites
• Remembering bob noorda.
• 283. A Busy Month for Identity Redesign.
• Mads Berg Illustration
• Klein’s Anti-Branding View Remains Baseless
• The Hue Center
• 5 Simple Tips for Improving Designer-Client Relationships
• Recommended Reading by Jason Santa Maria
• Who Owns Student Work?
• 9 Must Have iPhone Apps For Font Addicts
• Opportunity Model

User Experience:

• Free Web UI and Button Set from MediaLoot
• An Explosion of Adobe Fireworks Resources
• 13 video player UIs in 24 hours
• Radio Johnny: Eric Reiss Predictions for UX in 2010
• The 3 Qs for Great Experience Design (by Jared Spool)
• When Data Gets Up Close and Personal
• Beatles Music in Infographics
• Save pens. Use Garamond font
• Google Design in Practice — Adam Barker
• 6 Spectacular Flash Storytelling Websites

Other Tangents:

• Can you kick ass in six frames?
• 3D printing for animation?
• No Screen? No Problem: A Look at the Projector-based Laptop
• Everything You Need to Know About Image Compression
• Digital You
• Remember: Marketing Is Art
• Fresh starts
• What A Website Will Be… And Never Be
• How to Reach Out to Bloggers
• The 7 keys to social branding

Weekly Roundup: Design Related Links #4

Design + Branding:

• The Bubble Project
• The Al Gore font fix
• Site Inspire
• Your Personality, Summarized in a Typeface
• Does Invention Require Design?
• Ten Years Told Through 92 Covers
• Currency of the World
• Microsoft Office, Version Bland.0
• Dan Meyer’s 2009 Annual Report
• Today’s CreativeMornings with Michael Bierut

User Experience:

• Visualize How Long the Things You Own Actually Own You
• 25+ Useful Infographics for Web Designers
• HCI Playing Catchup with Fast Changing Computing Paradigms
• 30 Cutting Edge Examples Of CSS Navigation
• New site helps cancer patients network, improve treatments
• World Cup 2010 Promotions to Use Augmented Reality
• Making an Impact
• A Primer on Tracking Your Life’s Data
• Progress Trackers in Web Design: Examples and Best Practices
• User Experience Diagrams

Other Tangents:

• Top futurist, Ray Kurzweil, predicts how technology will change humanity by 2020
• Fixed-scheduled productivity
• How to make an iPhone App
• Radiohead’s Formula For Unleashing Your Creative Genius
• Creative Bookmarks: Best of December 2009
• The Discomfort of Improving
• Building a Company with Customer Data – Why Metrics Are Not Enough
• How to create a fluid grid with jQuery
• Five Quick New Year Resolutions for Designers and Developers
• Your Online Life *Is* Your Resume

Weekly Roundup: Design Related Links #3

Design + Branding:

• The Cat got Peugeot’s Tongue
• Marketers Need To Better Understand Creativity
• 5 Branding Basics Every Logo Designer Should Know
• Google and the Value of Branding
• Lambie-Nairn boss Schroeder says designers should take control of branding  (subscription only)
• Graphic Design Services In The US – Industry Risk Rating Report – New Report Published
• Brazilian Illustrator Eduardo Recife
• The Passionate Color Red
• Graphical World Progress Report – A Sneak Peek
• Pictodeck Icon Set: Over 700 Free Pictograms for Keynote
• site inspire
• Pentagram Named ADC Design Firm of the Year
• 11 Ways to Visualize Changes Over Time – A Guide
• Vintage Ad Browser
• Grid Systems in Graphic Design

User Experience:

• Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
• The simplest form of persona template
• UX Bookstore
• Why Care About First Person User Interfaces?
• The Typo Terrorist: Christmas Bomber allowed to fly due to a spelling error
• A UI Design and Prototyping Treasure Chest
• Bad Usability Calendar 2010
• Emerging a User Experience Strategy
• 25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time
• 10 Stunning Web Site Prototype Sketches

Other Tangents:

• How to Create a Cool Anaglyphic Text Effect with CSS
• Building Social Bookmarking Networks 101
• How to Back up Your Social Media Accounts
• LEGO Click: Building Blocks Meet Social Media
• The 10 Stages of Social Media Business Integration
• When Your Company Culture Isn’t Ready for Social Media

Weekly Roundup: Design Related Links #2

Design + Branding:

• Top 33 Best Logo Design Processes of 2009
• Brand Alphabet Poster
• What is AIGA thinking about the future of design?
• Creative and Unusual Layouts and Navigation Designs
• Gorgeous Typography Examples in Advertising Design
• 45 Inspirational Vcard Designs
• A Year in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Timescapes to Compare Chopin Recordings
• The Most Relevant Identity Work of the Decade
• 55 Trendy Web Design Interfaces From Deviantart
• Minimal Sites
• What is Design?
• 100 Unused Logos and What they Reveal about my Design Inclinations

User Experience:

• Fantastic Information Architecture and Data Visualization Resources
• Ambient User Experience
• The Fake Freeway Sign that Became a Real Public Service
• What is Information Architecture?
• 280. A Practical Yet Human Boarding Pass Design.
• The Case Against Vertical Navigation
• Always Be Testing: 8 Services For Usability Feedback
• Memo sent by who framed Roger Rabbit director
• Five User Experience Trends I’ll be Watching in 2010
• iPhone Mockup helps you quickly design iPhone user interfaces

Other Tangents:

• Magazines Still Wasting Time With Stupid Barcodes
• Adaptive Path: Our Reading List
• Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity
• The 20 Best Productivity and Personal Development Blogs
• Jessica Hagy: The Visual Grammar of Ideas

Weekly Roundup: Design Related Links #1

Branding + Design Articles of interest…

• Does Popularity = Social?
• Molson Canadian’s New Ad, Logo & Packaging
• The Library of Congress Gets its Wings
• Expedia Gets a Bland Coat of Paint
• Bausch + Lomb Rebrand
• Sorry Haters, Consumers Like AOL’s New Brand!
• How Google Came Up With The Nexus One Logo
• Chart Wars: The Political Power of Data Visualization

User Experience Articles of interest…

• 25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time
• Showcase Of Modern Navigation Design Trends
• My Recommendation: Stop Making Design Recommendations
• 10 Stunning Web Site Prototype Sketches
• Anthony Dunne at Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign
• How Our Brain Decides How Long We Look at Something
• A funny thing happened on the way to the future…
• Radio Johnny

Day 8 of #daily365

For todays 15 minute sketch…

“I don’t know where I’m going from here,
but I promise it won’t be boring.”
David Bowie

Image Credit: NASA Images

Day 7 of #daily365

Getting caught up!  For todays 15 minute sketch…

Sir Sandford Fleming
January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915

Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor, known for proposing worldwide standard time zones.

Day 6 of #daily365

For todays 15 minute sketch…

“I am not afraid. I was born to do this.”
Joan of Arc

Day 5 of #daily365

For todays 15 minute sketch…

“Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.”
Unknown

Day 4 of #daily365

“Thank you we appreciate your business”

This is a picture taken a few months ago outside a gas pump I frequent. No photo manipulation here. Thankfully the service there is greater than their eye for detail.

“Well done is better than well said.”
Benjamin Franklin