Year / 2010
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Pride week
View from our place in SOMa of the pride triangle up on Twin Peaks.
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Tonight
View from our office/Ideacodes of downtown SF and the Moscone conference center two days before WWDC.
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Apple’s HTML5 Showcase
Interesting to see Apple putting up a section on their site to showcase HTML5 (although many of them aren’t HTML5, but CSS3). And yeah, they make you download Safari to view it…
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“Fair Trade” Electronics
From Foxconn Suicides: Is It Time For “Fair Trade” Electronics? Would You Buy A “Fair Trade” iPhone? by Tom Foremski All the large tech companies such as Apple, Nokia, Dell, etc have…
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On Staying Small
Stefan Sagmeister on being a designer and design company at 99%: The conventional wisdom in our business is that you have to grow and keep moving to survive. We never grew, always…
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Mobile Digital Workstation
Current work setup in hotel.
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More Typefaces Coming to the Web
After designing for the web for over 15 years, it’s exciting to see more typefaces finally becoming available for the web beyond the original 7-10 web fonts, or image replacement with JS/Flash.…
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Jackhammer Street Stencil
Saw both of these today while walking about on a warm Sunday in SF. The one on the left is down the street in SoMA near 111 Minna, and the reverse black…
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Touch Gesture Reference Guide
The Touch Gesture Reference Guide is a unique set of resources for software designers and developers working on touch-based user interfaces. The guide contains: 1) an overview of the core gestures used…
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Why So Few Women in Silicon Valley?
Women own 40 percent of the private businesses in the United States, according to the Center for Women’s Business Research. But they create only 8 percent of the venture-backed tech start-ups, according…
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The iPad Arrives
As I’m sure you know, tech and geek news has been buzzing for weeks about the arrival of the iPad and today was the day for pre-orders to arrive by UPS and…
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Desk iPhone Dock
With Desk Phone Dock, use your iPhone as your one and only integrated wired desk phone in your office or home environment. You can make and receive calls like you did with a…
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Photoshop Content-Aware Fill Sneak Peek
Check out this video of a new content-aware fill feature by the Photoshop team. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI[/youtube] As anyone who’s had to retouch photos knows, this type of correcting and filling by hand is…
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Bold not Beige
A recent design project by Pentagram for the Achievement First Endeavor Middle School in Brooklyn caught my attention. Paula Scher calls the Achievement First project “an opportunity to correct the beige mistake…
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Time Machine 020507
While backing up 1,274,742 items to Apple’s time capsule via time machine, I thought of the original The Time Machine by H.G. Wells and re-found this quote: Few people realise the immensity…
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iPad Announced
In case you didn’t hear, the much-anticipated Apple iPad was announced today. Some notable points for me: New 1GHz Apple A4 processor chip Uses iPhone 3.0 OS It’s 9.7″ with a 1024×768…
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Solar Panel Charger for iPhone
I like this new solar charger, the P-Flip™ Foldable Solar Power from Denix. It’s foldable, rechargeable and generates up to 8 hours talk time, 15 hours of video or gaming, and 60…
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Siftables Coming Soon
From Siftables, the Amazing Computerized Toy Blocks, Are Coming To a Store Near You (Hopefully Soon): Sifteo, makers of Siftables, the ingenious cookie-sized computer blocks that play together in infinitely interesting ways,…
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Sunday Print Inspiration
Having a mellow Sunday with lots of new design magazines and some homemade broccoli and roasted red pepper soup.
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SMS Donation for Haiti
There are numerous ways to donate to the relief efforts in Haiti. I chose to text the word “QUAKE” to 20222 to donate $10 (charged to your cell phone bill) through the…
