Dieter Rams: Less and More Interview
This Rams interview features 10 principles of good design + endless list of memorable quotes from this Braun designer who has influenced Apple’s design and industrial design in general. The un-spectacular things are the important things. — Dieter Rams —
Designing Devices (Free eBook)
In honor of #IxD12 starting tomorrow and running until the end of the conference my Kindle ebook Designing Devices will be free to download! — Dan Saffer on Twitter In other words, get a free design / tech book delivered
PageLayers – Your Dream Tool For Website Redesign
Page Layers creates PSD files of websites. It’s an awesome tool, if you ever: plan to do an unsolicited redesign for some entity are at work, and are asked to do an actual redesign project for a client have a
Site Recommendation: Minimal Me
Soothing Minimalism in photography, design & art at http://mini-mal-me.tumblr.com/
Copyright and remix culture: The new Prohibition?
The video above is The Kleptones – Welcome Back (Instamatic video mashup), my favorite example of excellent piece of mashup/remix culture. Push play and continue reading: If there’s one concept that has suffered more damage than just about anything else
Alternative Design Capital 2012 Site Launched
My work wolleagues at Nordkapp just did and launched a website for Alternative Design Capital 2012. This is a shadow event for the official World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 project. Read more about ADC on the site and submit your
How-to: Create dithered 16-bit graphics for WP7
Here’s a common problem when developing WP7 applications, solved. Problem The Windows Phone 7 platform, and apparently especially Samsung phones, require you to use 16-bit graphics. Photoshop only writes 8-bit or 24-bit PNG files. Of those, 24-bit gets dropped down
Flipboard for iPhone
Ha! Flipboard now available for iPhone. Perhaps this reinvigorates my usage of Flipboard, which has slowly turned into zero on the iPad. The app looks nice and fresh again, just like it did originally on the iPad. Also notice their
Gradient app
Gradient App is “The missing link between web designers and colors.” — An app with very pretty UI, and it’s probably handy for those working with CSS3 gradients.
