Extra Future[An excellent collection for your Tuesday blues.][link] Ray sez:
>After seeing them all together, I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that this could have been the Dribbble popular page about 5-6 years ago.
I totally see it, yeah.
[link]: http://reaganray.com/2018/01/22/vhs-distributors.html “http://reaganray.com/2018/01/22/vhs-distributors.html”
ALA was instrumental to my start in this business. I both bless and curse them for this. [Here’s the Patreon.][pat] It’s a move I am fully in favor of. Death to ads.
>[We’re getting rid of advertisers][link] and digging back to our roots: community-based, community-built, and determinedly non-commercial. If you want to highlight local events or innovations, expand your skills, give back, or explore any other goal or idea, we’re here to support you with networking and backing from the community.
[link]: https://alistapart.com/article/new-a-list-apart-wants-you “New A List Apart wants you! · An A List Apart Article”
[pat]: https://www.patreon.com/alistapart/posts “A List Apart Patreon”
[An article about a cool thing with a goofy lede][link]:
>An algorithm has *usurped the traditional role of a designer* to generate millions of unique packaging designs for Nutella.
Emphasis mine. It’s goofy because nothing usurped anything. A designer created an algorithm to create variations. It’s just a different kind of design.
[link]: https://www.dezeen.com/2017/06/01/algorithm-seven-million-different-jars-nutella-packaging-design/ “Algorithm designs seven million different jars of Nutella”
A [beautiful list of valid HTML colors which are also english-language words][link]. There’s a poetry to how some of these match up; “defied / #DEF1ED” for example seems perfect somehow?
[link]: http://c0ffee.surge.sh/ “#c0ffee is the color”
[Adam Silver with some good horse sense][1]. This is a surprisingly common practice here in the Year of Luigi 2017. It’s mostly surprising because we spent so much time talking about this during the original web standards push that I’d hoped it had sunk in.
[1]: https://medium.com/simple-human/stop-using-device-breakpoints-b11a87e2625c “Stop using device breakpoints – Simple = Human – Medium”
I am truly honored to have my work represented by [this marginally-popular regular feature on Adafruit’s YouTube channel][link].
Seriously, so great.
[link]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psWgfBCL-Ek “Wireframe Skull on Time-lapse Tuesday”
This was fun. You can catch Jervis on Championship Wrestling from Hollywood, and CHIKARA Pro. You can buy the shirt on prowrestlingtees.com.
[A user-generated collection of typography from national parks and other ‘wild’ spaces.][link] Beautiful stuff.
[link]: http://www.trailtype.com/ “Trail Type”
[Gorgeous steel, bronze brass light switches and dimmers][link]. This is what Dr. Frankenstein would have in his apartment.
[link]: http://store.busterandpunch.com/collections/hooked/Electricity “HOOKED – Buster + Punch”
[Obelisk.js is a JavaScript Engine for building isometric pixel objects.][link]
… and it looks like a million bucks. This may have to be the basis for my life’s work: A modern remake of the SNES version of SimCity. (via [Jesper][jesp])
[link]: https://github.com/nosir/obelisk.js “nosir/obelisk.js on GitHub”
[jesp]: http://waffle.wootest.net “Waffle, Jesper’s blog”
[Slick technique that is worth looking into for many applications.][link] As someone who deals with a lot of form inputs both as a user and a designer, there are some useful ideas here.
[link]: http://css-tricks.com/float-labels-css/ “Float Labels with CSS | CSS-Tricks”
[No surprise that Android has the fewest, with a grand total of FOUR.][link]
[link]: http://www.jordanm.co.uk/tinytype “tinytype”
[Neven Mrgan just blew my mind][link]:
>Layer comps is a panel—found in the Window menu—which helps you organize different versions of a designs or different views of it in the same file. If you are a responsible digital citizen at all, you probably have some sort of system for keeping around alternate elements and various “views” of your app. Layer Comps will make this easier and more robust.
Had no idea this even existed.
[link]: http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/134283303/layer-comps “Layer Comps in Photoshop – Neven Mrgan's tumbl”
[Sometimes public shaming is the only way to solve bad dataviz.][link]
[link]: http://wtfviz.net/ “WTF Visualizations”
[The psychology here is interesting to me.][link]
[link]: http://www.fastcolabs.com/3010972/open-company/how-github-uses-deprivation-testing-to-hone-product-design “How GitHub Uses "Deprivation Testing" To Hone Product Design ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community”
The creator of the [previously-linked][prev] (and awesome) lo-fi fantasy tile set [has opened a store for making / selling licenses for new ones][link]. I applaud this. Make money on your art.
[link]: http://oryxdesignlab.com/sprites/ “Sprites — Oryx Design Lab”
[prev]: http://extrafuture.com/2009/11/23/tigsource-user-oryxs-8-bit-fantasy-graphics-tiles/ “Oryx’s 8-bit fantasy tiles”
[I’ve always used “Your” instead of “My,” when designing interfaces and I think Dustin Curtis has figured out some of the “why”:][link]
>After thinking about this stuff for a very long time, I’ve settled pretty firmly in the camp of thinking that interfaces should mimic social creatures, that they should have personalities, and that I should be communicating with the interface rather than the interface being an extension of myself.
Makes sense to me.
[link]: http://dcurt.is/yours-vs-mine “Yours vs. Mine | Dustin Curtis”
[Fast Company][link]:
>The process allows Fusaro to take 3-D scans of a runner’s foot, use digital tools to cater the stiffness of the soles to the athlete’s physical abilities, then print the shoes out of nylon polyamide powder, a material that is “one of the strongest in the range of additive manufacturing,” Fusaro says
Uses 3d printing. How long before we can make our own shoes on our MakerBots?
[link]: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670231/could-the-world-s-fastest-shoe-really-have-come-from-a-printer “Could The World’s Fastest Shoe Really Have Come From A Printer? | Co.Design: business + innovation + design”
[Design Observer has this crazy photo gallery of soldiers personalized Zippo lighters][link] from Vietnam. Chilling, funny, and sad.
[link]: http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/accidental-mysteries-062412/34848/ “Accidental Mysteries: 06.24.12: Vietnam Zippo Lighters: Observatory: Design Observer”
[My friends at Peapod Studios have released a new version of their website, and it looks as great as you’d expect.][link]
If you need design, branding, web development, or otherwise, you can’t do much better than Peapod.
[link]: http://www.peapod.ca/ “Peapod Studios”