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Vintage Logos

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:50:27 GMT

Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_carl/sets/72157604144345854/

Advice from Coudal on how to transition from client work to products

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:52:09 GMT

Link: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/975-advice-from-coudal-on-how-to-transition-from-client-work-to-products

Poynter's Eye-tracking Follies

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:30:31 GMT

A second-opinion to the Poynter Institute’s numerous eye-tracking suggestions.

Link: http://www.andyrutledge.com/poynters-eye-track-follies.php

Soviet Lemonade Labels

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:28:11 GMT

Link: http://www.sadcom.com/labels/index.htm

Taking a quick look at Mental Models

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:28:50 GMT

The cover’s beautiful, and I’ve got a hunch the contents are pretty interesting.

Link: http://designnotes.info/?p=1309

One Page Love

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:28:43 GMT

The best in single-page sites.

Link: http://onepagelove.com/

Brits get new coins

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:26:05 GMT

Why can’t US coin design be this good?

Link: http://www.royalmint.com/newdesigns/designsRevealed.aspx

The 960 Grid System

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:31:48 GMT

Templating for grid-based web layouts.

Link: http://960.gs/

Vintage microphones are pretty

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:31:34 GMT

Link: http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/true_industrial_design_vintage_mics_9367.asp

Phoenix: A multilegged creature

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:22:03 GMT

A six-legged robot with amazingly smooth movement.

Link: http://forums.trossenrobotics.com/showthread.php?t=1352

Apple, Google and you

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:23:25 GMT

Link: http://bitsandpieces.us/?p=1209

Star Wars vs. Saul Bass

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:19:34 GMT

Not the best impression of Saul Bass, but a great mash-up of two classics.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z25t-PQDn5A

The Next Slum?

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:48:03 GMT

Another reason McMansionism is simply a bad idea.

Link: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/subprime

1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple's Future

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:26:44 GMT

Jonathan Ive hearts Dieter Rams.

Link: http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future

A suit of armor for your cat

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:06:33 GMT

Link: http://jeffdeboer.com/Galleries/CatsandMice/tabid/77/moduleid/433/viewkey/photo/photoid/120/Default.aspx

The Drink Selector mug

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:08:23 GMT

Just dial in your favorite drink to save on all that order-placing chit-chat.

Link: http://swissmiss.typepad.com/weblog/2008/01/drink-selector.html

5 dangerous things you should let your kids do

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:00:39 GMT

From the TED talks.

Link: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/202/?src=rss

Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:18:56 GMT

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/business/30know.html?ex=1356843600&en=5d04acf0f946a3a9&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

CommandShift3

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:27:00 GMT

“It’s like Hot or Not for web design”

Link: http://commandshift3.com/

Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:14:06 GMT

From Andy Rutledge.

Link: http://www.andyrutledge.com/bad-layout-conventions.php

77 Design Gifts Under $77

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:09:55 GMT

Core 77’s holiday gift guide for designers.

Link: http://www.core77.com/ultimategiftguide/

Updated Hamsters

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:40:45 GMT

The weather was less-than-conducive to anything other being a shut-in over the weekend, so I spent my time goofing around with the site (when I wasn’t playing Mass Effect). I believe this makes Version 7 for those of you keeping score at home.

No weather or time of day effects yet, but the code’s still in there so I’m expecting them to come back as more time avails itself (read: I beat Mass Effect).

Constructing the Penguin Grid

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:45:56 GMT

Link: http://www.ministryoftype.co.uk/P84/

The bottom-up and top-down approaches to game design

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:35:19 GMT

Link: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2129/game_design_cognition_the_.php

Reading Tea Leaves and Campaign Logos

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:35:12 GMT

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/11/18/opinion/20071118_OPART_index.html

IKEA ads

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:20:01 GMT

Link: http://swissmiss.typepad.com/weblog/2007/11/simple-stunning.html

Best book covers of 2007

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:18:53 GMT

Link: http://nytimesbooks.blogspot.com/2007/11/my-favorite-book-covers-of-2007.html

The making of an Adidas soccer ball

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:26:21 GMT

It looks complicated.

Link: http://static.iftk.com.br/mt/2007/10/inside_adidas_factory_39_pics.html#more

Paul Rand

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:54:40 GMT

East German Type

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:38:15 GMT

As in “typography.” Just preparing for my trip.

Link: http://pingmag.jp/2007/10/05/veb-typoart-the-east-german-type-betriebsstatte/

Chinese culture versus German culture

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:36:31 GMT

A study in infographics.

Link: http://www.adinochang.com/archives/chinese-culture-versus-german-culture.html

Layer Tennis

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:42:36 GMT

Coudal Partners’ new season of Layer Tennis kicked off this afternoon.

Link: http://layertennis.com/070928/index.php

tufte-latex

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:07:15 GMT

A LaTEX extension to produce scientific documents a la Tufte’s recommendation. I’m pretty sure Tufte himself has no part in this, however the documents to come out looking pretty good.

Link: http://code.google.com/p/tufte-latex/

Why knockoffs are good for fashion

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:22:42 GMT

Because they generate a need for next year’s products.

Link: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/22/why-knockoffs-are-go.html

Seven Lies about Information Architecture

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:08:45 GMT

Good rules for breaking the rules.

Link: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?574

COLOURlovers

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:47:39 GMT

Color trends and palettes.

Link: http://www.colourlovers.com/

Kolonihagen Summerhouse

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:22:39 GMT

I want one of these — I just need some place to put it. (And some time to spend there.)

Link: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/07/tommie_wilhelmsens_kolonihagen_summerhouse.php

nicholasjon.com is iPhone-ready

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:13:49 GMT

I just whipped together an iPhone-ready version of the site based on Joe Hewitt’s amazingly quick work.

It’s “read only” for now, meaning I didn’t build commenting into it, however you should be able to browse the front page of the site without any trouble.

It’s amazing how easy it is to develop for this little device.

iPhone differences

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:18:36 GMT

How has the iPhone changed since it was announced?

Link: http://www.thesimplewebsolution.com/iPhone.html

Polar clock

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:26:31 GMT

Tell time in circles.

Link: http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/upload/polarclock/polarclock.html

A 1D skyscraper with a single corridor

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 23 May 2007 20:51:47 GMT

Towers based on a helix, and the problems therein.

Link: http://absidea.free.fr/wordpress/index.php/helix-a-1d-skyscraper-with-a-single-corridor/

30 Orange Websites

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 04 May 2007 08:54:59 GMT

How to use orange in your designs for the web.

Link: http://tutorialblog.org/30-orange-websites/

Versus

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 04 May 2007 08:54:39 GMT

People like to make binary choices.

Link: http://www.andyrutledge.com/versus.php

What will the final version of the Wii internet channel look like?

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:44:21 GMT

The developers explain.

Link: http://us.wii.com/story_internet.jsp

The gentle art of selling yourself

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:26:05 GMT

Who wouldn’t want to be described:

His presentation skills are off the chart, as is his creative thinking. He is opinionated, innovative and people-oriented. Blessed with the courage of his own convictions, he leans to extremes, black or white. Never grey. You simply can’t ignore him.

A very nice header indeed.

Link: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2025919,00.html

One principle to design by

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:16:04 GMT

Solve the problem. (End of story.)

Link: http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/one_principle_to_design_by1/

The Boring Store

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:34:15 GMT

This is not a store for secret agents.

Link: http://www.methodsreporter.com/2007/02/27/826chi-boring-store-eggers/1/

Patterns from the seat fabric of public transportation vehicles

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:45:33 GMT

Uniformly ugly in their wild difference.

Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ludwig/sets/72157594393043457/detail/

Time Sensitive

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:54:29 GMT

I spent some time this afternoon building in time and weather sensitivity to my blog’s design. I spent absolutely zero time trying to phrase that last sentence so that I didn’t sound like a complete dork.

This redesign was partly driven by Smashing Magazine’s ‘30 dark designs’ article, partly driven by Amy spending all weekend blogging, and partly driven by the fact that ever since Dunstan Orchard took down his blog I’ve wanted to do something like this.

It’s a first step, there are only basic designs in place for sunny day, cloudy day and night. I think I’d definitely like to get a “twilight” one in there, maybe a rain or a snow, and then maybe a few easter eggs as I come up with them.

Comments and suggestions are, as always, welcome.

30 dark designs you should’ve seen

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:16:17 GMT

Great work.

Link: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/01/13/30-dark-designs-you-shouldve-seen/

A rising tide of disaffection towards design

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:37:32 GMT

Anti-fluff and anti-stuff

Link: http://www.core77.com/reactor/01.07_backlash.asp

Mike Davidson on the iPhone

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:24:33 GMT

”... your finished product would be a godamned fingerpainting compared to this…” I think he likes it.

Link: http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2007/01/iphone-sand-in-your-hand

iPhone

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:08:18 GMT

Oh, how you are a thing of beauty. Assuming Cingular doesn’t somehow screw this one up, I cannot wait to get my hands on one come June. Apple, Inc. nailed this one.

Link: http://www.apple.com/iphone/

Optimal width for 1024px resolution?

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:12 GMT

It’s 960px. I think I’ve been using 970px…

Link: http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/001220.html

The Villan Chair

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:33 GMT

Move over Eames, I want one of these

Link: http://www.suck.uk.com/product.php?rangeID=55&showBar=1

An open letter to John Warnock

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:36 GMT

Asking Adobe to move a few fonts into the public domain for the sake of good web typography

Link: http://www.designbyfire.com/?p=30

Tufte on NPR

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:23 GMT

E.T. talks about “Beautiful Design”

Link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5673332

An introduction to using patterns in web design

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:11 GMT

I need to figure out if this is really a good idea

Link: http://www.37signals.com/papers/introtopatterns/

Web2.0 Designer

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:40 GMT

Link: http://www.jaredigital.com/article/186/carte-blanche

The Eames Lounge Chair

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:36 GMT

I still want one

Link: http://www.madmuseum.org/site/c.drKLI1PIIqE/b.1321455/k.C9C2/The_Eames_Lounge_Chair_An_Icon_of_Modern_Design.htm

Cork'd

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:16 GMT

The Dans (Cederholm and Benjamin) have launched a new wine site

Link: http://corkd.com/

The web design trend obituary and death clock

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:38 GMT

Guessing when popular trends in web design will finally die much as the “page curl” did before them.

Link: http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/05/01/the-web-design-trend-obituary-death-clock/

CSS Reboot Spring 2006

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:36 GMT

I always forget about CSS Reboot

Link: http://www.cssreboot.com/

Making popular layout decisions

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:24 GMT

A web designer is a fascist oppressor

Link: http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/design/making-popular-layout-decisions

Nakashima coffee table

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:41 GMT

If I had $25,000, I think this would be a nice addition to the living room

Link: http://wright20.com/auctions/23_wright/preview/individual_lots/prev_7.html

The time is now for front-end architects

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:27 GMT

John tells me I’m a front-end architect, and I think he might be right

Link: http://www.garrettdimon.com/archives/the-time-is-now-for-front-end-architects

Rails for Designers

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:27 GMT

A write up of the “V” in Rails’s MVC

Link: http://glu.ttono.us/articles/2006/03/21/rails-for-designers

Former Apple, Microsoft UI designers talk shop

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:22 GMT

”... operating system user interface design is moving away from a windowing system because content consumption is replacing content creation as the primary use for a computer.”

Link: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/49446.html

May contain non-design content

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:19 GMT

A Design Observer article with this gem nestled within it: “To me, the conclusion is inescapable: the more things you’re interested in, the better your work will be.”

Link: http://www.designobserver.com/archives/011848.html

Trapped in cubicles

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:13 GMT

“Lined up in identical rows, they became the dystopian world that three academics described as ‘bright satanic offices’ in a 1998 book, Workplaces of the Future.”

Link: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/03/20/8371767/

What Are CSS Sprites?

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:13 GMT

A very fast way to do image switching and rollovers with CSS — I think there might be some IE related issues with this tutorial, but I’m not entirely sure

Link: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=447210&rl=1

Veerle's blog 2.0

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:07 GMT

Beautiful blog redesign

Link: http://veerle.duoh.com/

Microsoft redesigns iPod packaging

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:30 GMT

Great parody

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAGr3mVVUwE

The Envelope Pattern of Content Management

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:25 GMT

Who’s building a CMS? Not me…

Link: http://www.gadgetopia.com/post/4203

The Content Tree

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:25 GMT

Making a tree the backbone of your CMS

Link: http://www.gadgetopia.com/post/4237

Patterns in Interaction Design

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:25 GMT

Examples and models for various web design problems

Link: http://www.welie.com/patterns/

CSS Basics

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:11 GMT

Very basic (very), but a good place to start

Link: http://www.cssbasics.com/

CSS opacity and transparency

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:43 GMT

Notes on CSS3 transparency filtering

Link: http://www.mandarindesign.com/opacity.html

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:08 GMT

Geeky typophiles rejoice!

Link: http://webtypography.net/toc/

Centered Tabs with CSS

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:07 GMT

No more width-guessing

Link: http://24ways.org/advent/centered-tabs-with-css

Aged Aesthetic

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:07 GMT

Jason Santa Maria chimes in with his own thoughts on “aged” design

Link: http://www.jasonsantamaria.com/archive/2004/06/16/aged_aesthetic.php

The Awesome Antiquated Look

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:07 GMT

Photoshop tricks

Link: http://www.blakems.com/archives/000072.html

In search of the One True Layout

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:35 GMT

Perhaps the greatest collection of CSS techniques ever committed to markup

Link: http://positioniseverything.net/articles/onetruelayout/

Format change at MezzoBlue

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:09 GMT

Dave Shea changes things up because his old format forced him to write “articles” — I know the feeling

Link: http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2005/10/11/format_chang/

A design critique of the alphabet

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:06 GMT

Time for a redesign?

Link: http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/002383.html

Blinksale

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:41 GMT

Firewheel design’s Blinksale is simply stunning in its execution

Link: http://www.blinksale.com/

Five simple steps to designing grid systems

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:19 GMT

Sometimes I think my life would be easier as a print designer

Link: http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/five_simple_steps_to_designing_grid_systems_part_1/

Newsdesigner

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:29 GMT

A weblog about news paper design, very cool

Link: http://www.newsdesigner.com/blog/

Web 2.0 for Designers

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:15 GMT

Isn’t Web 2.0 really about the connections between data and not so much about the data itself?

Link: http://digital-web.com/articles/web_2_for_designers/