“Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development”
Styling ordered list numbers »
May 27, 2011 -
Why has it taken us so long to have a solution for this? It’s such a basic design requirement. Thanks to Roger Johansson for sharing his method.
Textify »
May 24, 2011 -
A fun experiment – “Convert images to HTML text. Drag and drop images on to the page to start converting!”
Japanese graphic design from the 1920s-30s »
May 24, 2011 -
“This collection of 50 posters, magazine covers and advertisements offer a glimpse at some of the prevailing tendencies in a society transformed by the growth of modern industry and technology, the popularity of Western art and culture, and the emergence of leftist political thought.”
Sidestep »
May 20, 2011 -
“When Sidestep detects you connecting to an unprotected wireless network, it automatically encrypts all of your Internet traffic and reroutes it through a secure connection to a server of your choosing, which acts as your Internet proxy. And it does all this in the background so that you don’t even notice it.”
CSS Mask-Image & Text »
May 19, 2011 -
“we’ll soon be all out of reasons to resort to image replacement for beautiful type on the web” Amen.
Yale Digital Commons »
May 17, 2011 -
More than 250,000 images from Yale’s collections are now available for free thanks to its new “Open Access” catalog.
I could lose myself in there…
Lost Type Co-op »
May 16, 2011 -
“founded with the intention of providing unique and quality fonts based on a pay-what-you-want model. All designers get 100% of the donations their font receives.”
Amazon.com: the Hidden Empire »
May 12, 2011 -
A deep dive in slide-form of Amazon’s road to dominance of online commerce.
Flux Slider Demo »
May 11, 2011 -
via @cameronmoll “Hardware accelerated image transitions using CSS3″ Beauty plus power. Now to figure out how to implement with a graceful degradation for IE and older browsers without CSS3 support…
FitText – A plugin for inflating web type »
May 10, 2011 -
From the makers of Lettering.js comes another awesome jQuery type-focused plugin: “FitText makes font-sizes flexible. Use this plugin on your fluid or responsive layout to achieve scalable headlines that fill the width of a parent element.” Yet again, @trentwalton, @davatron5000 and @raygunray release a killer utility that developers, designers and users alike will benefit from.
The timing of this release meshes perfectly with my redesign of Refresh Austin.
ifttt »
May 4, 2011 -
“If this then that” – this looks awesome and maps against a couple of different services I use and hacks I’ve put into place to automate parts of my digital life. Hopefully I’ll get an invite soon