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Need to do a New Yorker cover? There's an app for that

Jorge Colombo's New Yorker cover painting done on an iPhone using Brushes app [+]

Happy 4th of July 2008

For me, it's a day for sleeping in late and walking around a deserted New York City. Here's Zeldman's take. And then, there's the annual Coney Island hot dog binge-fest. [+]

Spread the Foxiness

Help Firefox set a Guinness World record by downloading Firefox 3 on Download Day. Get involved. via WaSP. [+]

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Work

On Air Retail Store

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Time Warner's On Air retail store showcased cable, wireless and telephony products and services. I worked in a small team of three, rapidly designing for eight months to create On Air's identity, stationery, print collateral, environmental graphics and signage, packaging, print advertising — even tchotchkes.

View this and other Works [+]

jQuery Mother Lode

Loads of jQuery tutorials, tips and resources. 55 of them, to be exact. [+]

06.14.2009

Snow Leopard Font Changes

The upcoming OS X Snow Leopard ushers changes to font display rendering control and says goodbye to that trusty monospace friend, Monaco. via Ars Technica Update 15 June 2009: Monaco isn't being dropped entirely from Snow Leopard; it's still included as a TTF file. [+]

05.25.2009

Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business

Apple's Jonathan Ive tops the list of 100 Most Creative People in Business according to Fast Co. While I personally found most of their choices questionable, I was glad to see Hayao Miyazaki (#31), Evan WIlliams (#34), Neil Gaiman (#40), Gary Hustwit (#74) and Jane McGonigal (#80) mentioned. [+]

05.14.2009

RIP Nick West

Although we've never met in person, you're ITP family and you're exactly the kind of person I want to become. Rest in peace, Nick. [+]

05.10.2009

Objectified Opening at IFC NYC

Among my favorite quotes from the movie came from Dan Formosa (Smart Design), "Design for the extremes…and the middle will take care of itself." [+]

05.10.2009

Data-Driven Design

“Using data is fundamental to what we do. But we take all that with a grain of salt. Anytime you make design changes, the most vocal people are the ones who dislike what you’ve done. We don’t just throw the numbers in a spreadsheet.” — Douglas Bowman on the subject of design. [+]

05.04.2009

ITP 2009 Thesis Presentations + Spring Show

Be sure to check out ITP's thesis presentations beginning Monday, May 4 at noon through Friday, May 8. (view schedule). A live video stream will be available. Afterwards, drop by ITP for the ITP Spring Show 2009 on Sunday, May 10 2-6pm and Monday, May 11, 5-9pm. [+]

03.21.2009

Pew Research: State of the News Media

A perfectly-timed research companion to Clay Shirky's Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable and Steven Johnson's Old Growth Media And The Future Of News: Pew's newly-released comprehensive report on the state of the News media. [+]

03.08.2009

Defining the Role of Design to your Product

I love Seth's piece on Return on Design. It breaks down the role of design as it relates to marketing strategy and how investment for each tier varies as expected returns increase. [+]

02.22.2009

Using Inline-Block to Create Grid Layouts in CSS

This makes me so happy, I could cry. Easily create a grid layout with variable heights using the CSS inline-block property (and an ie6 hack): Mozilla WebDev: Cross-Browser Inline-Block. [+]

01.25.2009

Designers Republic RIP

Sadly, Designers Republic closed its studio. “It hasn’t really been DR for the last two or three years: it had gone too far from what it was supposed to be. I want to go back to what DR was ... working hands-on and not through account managers..." [+]

01.18.2009

Insane GUI

If it weren't for the ear, I'm not sure I could have figured out what this app does. Max Magic Microtuner via Daring Fireball [+]

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