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An animated ASCII lighthouse from ascii.rest that's pure nostalgia.

I used the Anatomy skill for Claude Code to draw a working pin-tumbler lock, then used it to show my kids how a key opens a door.

I built a terminal picker to find and resume Pi, Claude Code, and Codex sessions across projects.

Steven Wilson performs “Requiem for a Village” in the Village Hall Sessions.

Matthew McConaughey shares stories about films and performances while browsing the Criterion closet.

Matt Zoller Seitz writes about grief, memory, and heroic despair across the John Wick films.

Reid Wiseman’s Artemis II photograph shows Earth’s night side lit by moonlight, with city lights, auroras, and the eclipsed Sun visible.

RPWL performs “Start the Fire” live.

Rush performs “Finding My Way” live at the 2026 Juno Awards.

ReliCSS helps front-end developers inspect legacy stylesheets and navigate old CSS.

Wayne Barlowe’s Elytracephalid made the perfect avatar for my OpenClaw bot.

A local hiking trail begs urban visitors to take their midlife crises elsewhere.

A French sign offers crêpes and chocolates in one direction and a cruel world in the other.

Mike van der Sanden explores the melodies that can be found in typography.

Dream Theater performs “Overture 1928” and “Strange Déjà Vu” live in Paris.

Will Tempest shares illustrations from Saint Magnus and Frogmen, two pay-what-you-want tabletop RPGs.

Niklas Wistedt offers free tutorials for drawing fantasy maps, including a step-by-step medieval castle.

Benn Jordan encodes an image into a spectrogram, teaches the sound to a starling, and recovers the drawing from the bird’s call.

A catalogue of activities that feel like progress but are not the work itself.

Use a bind mount to keep a directory on the main drive stored on an external drive, and make it survive reboots.

Who I am, what this site collects, and what new posts will cover.

The aliases I actually use day to day, from navigation shortcuts to a fairly complete set of git verbs.

A stark black-and-white portrait of Vincent Price by Francesco Francavilla.

Neal Morse’s Cosmic Cathedral sounds like a groovier, rockier Transatlantic.

Two potential band names discovered while catching up with Severance.

A monster mini-expedition about exploring a facility, avoiding live electricity, and repairing a malfunctioning reactor.

Meshuggah’s music video for “Ligature Marks.”

Willow Catelyn Maclay remembers David Lynch and the work, dreams, and possibilities he left behind.

Charlie Griffiths’ Tiktaalika channels early Nevermore and King Diamond on “Gods of Pangaea.”

Walter Chaw writes that David Lynch’s work is a map without a legend—and that we do not need one to be moved by it.

OK Go builds another characteristically inventive music video from a mosaic of phone screens.

David Lynch ends a weather report by wishing everyone blue skies and golden sunshine internally, all along the way.

A portrait of David Lynch paired with Hunter S. Thompson’s ode to one of God’s own prototypes.

David Lynch describes life as a continuum and explains why love means keeping someone alive after death.

Major Garland Briggs names the possibility that love is not enough as his greatest fear.

Kyle MacLachlan’s tribute remembers David Lynch through friendship, coffee, painting, questions, and unexpected beauty.

A Polish general is dismissed after missing anti-tank mines turn up in an IKEA warehouse.

A sandbox adventure concept inspired by growing up in rural 1990s Michoacán, México.

A high-quality transfer of Ricky Jay’s 1996 HBO card-magic special, directed by David Mamet.

Replace semantic versioning with proud, default, and shame releases.

Douglas Adams on the joy of spending all day automating something that takes ten seconds by hand.

A grunge-themed wrestler named Steven Flowe enters to a parody of Pearl Jam’s “Even Flow” in which every lyric is his name.

Fifty-two LEGO interface panels become a study in the design, layout, and organization of complex interfaces.

A vivid science-fiction spacecraft illustration by Pascal Blanché.

Gojira’s official video for “Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!).”

The Internet Archive hosts the first fifty issues of Métal Hurlant, from January 1975 to April 1980.

Waaark explains how it transformed Nod Coding Bootcamp’s website through branding, interaction, and animation.

Scavengers Reign lives up to the hype with a rich, fantastical world and beautiful, imaginative animation.

“Body Blow” by Donny McCaslin is my new jam.

The Passage of Time by Liquid Tension Experiment.

Why the orange sky looks gray.

A glimpse of Hulu’s anthology film inspired by Clive Barker’s horror stories.

The official music video for "Incomplet" by Thomas Giles, released via Sumerian Records.

A first look at Hulu’s adaptation of Joseph Heller’s novel.

NASA’s InSight lander recorded something no human had ever experienced before: what Mars sounds like.

Isle of Dogs — Sushi Making Scene Timelapse

An explainer on why spacecraft find it easier to escape the Solar System entirely than to fall into the Sun, due to orbital velocity.

Between the Buried and Me play "Turn on the Darkness", taken from the Coma Ecliptic Live concert film.

Discovering wild beauty and epic solitude on a cruise to Norway’s arctic Svalbard islands.

Dennis Chambers performs “Tipitinas” with Mike Stern in 2015.

A first look at the third season of Noah Hawley’s crime anthology series.

Holidays are coming

“How do I get better at visual design?”

DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT - Failure.

Font terminology can confuse even experienced designers. The naming conventions come from centuries of typesetting tradition.

LiliLite, a product combining a bookshelf, a reading light and a bookmark in one.

“The Garden of Love” by Geoffrey Richardson.

The official lyric video for "The Endless Knot" by progressive metal band Haken.

\m/ HevyDevy \m/

A short film documenting The Next Rembrandt project, in which Microsoft and partner organizations used data analysis of the artist's paintings to generate a new portrait in his style.

The album can’t come out soon enough :)

In many ways, the story of Gorguts is about flux. This indispensable Canadian death metal act has experienced a great deal of professional and personal turmoil since its nascence in 1989.

“Prayers/Triangles” from Deftones’ 2016 album, Gore.

A close-up photo of a baby swordfish.

Architect and watercolorist Tytus Brzozowski imagines a dreamlike world where giant structures rest on towering stilts and trains emerge from tunnels in the sides of residential buildings.

Beijing-based artist DU Kun incorporates his passion for rock music into an oil painting series titled "Revels of the Rock Gods."

An image depicting all of the planets in the solar system combined into one composite view.

These photos are why I’m trapped in Tokyo forever now.

The Squire pen is designed with an underlying philosophy of simplicity, usefulness, and community.

Steven Wilson - Routine.

With all the olden day art done in pencil and worn over time, it’s rare that today we can actually find any of the old work done by cartoonists back in the day. But there’s hope, thanks to some Alice in Wonderland pencil tests from the depths of the Disney Vault!

A stop-motion recreation of the Twin Peaks title sequence built entirely out of paper.

Can’t. Wait. To. Hear. The. Whole. Album.

I am so looking forward to this album!

Scaled in Miles Scaled in Miles looks at Miles Davis’ career through a timeline of his recording sessions and the musicians who collaborated with him.

Celestial Cities, an illustration series by artist David Fleck of the design studio Lustik.

Anamorphic portraits built from assorted found objects by artist Bernard Pras.

Drew McLellan asks experienced web professionals which skills and principles should form the foundation of building websites.

Once you know that you’re accountable for producing a specific result, your efforts towards achieving that outcome become much more focused; the ticking clock of your deadline suddenly affects you on a much deeper level, and that helps you generate better ideas.

A print project celebrating Google's Material Design language in physical form.

Oliver Reichenstein argues that most interfaces fail because their designers did not put enough thought into the underlying things themselves.

A set of "Cheers" notecards designed by Scotty Reifsnyder.

Frank Chimero makes an optimistic case for pursuing ambitious ideas even when they require the least convenient path.

Fog…

Avala VII #latergram (at Avalski Toranj (Avala Tower))

Avala VI #latergram (at Spomenik Neznanom junaku (Monument to the Unknown Hero))

Avala V #latergram (at Spomenik Neznanom junaku (Monument to the Unknown Hero))

Avala IV #latergram (at Avalski Toranj (Avala Tower))

Avala III #latergram

Avala II #latergram (at Avalski Toranj (Avala Tower))

Avala #latergram (at Avalski Toranj (Avala Tower))

Paper Versus Pixel The science of reading shows that print and digital experiences are complementary.

Cats on a Park Bench

A short reflection on the judgment, curiosity, responsibility, and breadth of knowledge expected of a designer.

Bot & Dolly combine projection mapping, robotics, and choreography to transform a physical space in real time.

‘Dig’ by Nothing is my new jam.

Summer Sky Over Belgrade

Dan Mall’s practical questions for evaluating a project’s value, scope, timeline, budget, and client fit before committing to the work.

‘Pareidolia’ by Haken is my new jam.

‘Invidious’ by Revocation is my new jam.

LayerVault discusses reader feedback on implementing Progressive Reduction, a UI design pattern, following its initial article on the topic.

Always Challenge Your Never

I am so looking forward to this album…

It’s party time!

‘Culture Clash’ by The Aristocrats is my new jam.

‘Vicarious’ by Tool is my new jam.

A photo of Belgrade Arena and the Ada Bridge.

‘Beyond Daylight’ by Vanden Plas is my new jam.

‘Atlas Novus’ by Scale the Summit is my new jam.

Church Tower Under Summer Clouds

‘The Hive’ by Revocation is my new jam.

Seems like “Offscreen” will no longer be associated with just the amazing magazine — check out these awesome prints and tees. :)

Brankov most #latergram

Hollywood Star Charts

Sunlight Through the Trees

Clouds Over Belgrade

The Vein — Magma

Google’s brand is shaped in many ways, one of which is maintaining visual coherence across its assets.

‘Oracle’ by Scale The Summit is my new jam.

Just finished reading the introduction to the Execute book… I’ll just say that I am tempted to put it down and start working on a project… :)

Chinese Garden in Frankfurt #latergram

‘Cosmic Distance Ladder’ by Sound of Contact is my new jam.

Five Design Answers A couple of weeks ago, I got my invitation to try out Medium and this is my first post. (A proper post coming soon.)

Trees and Trolley Wires

A Little Free Library book-sharing box designed by the architecture studio Stereotank.

With more people than ever writing Sass, it bears some consideration how we format it. CSS style guides are common, so perhaps we can extend those to cover choices unique to Sass.

The other lamp… (No Tyrion this time)

Took this photo to show off the new lamp but Tyrion steals the shot :)

Designer Massimo Vignelli discusses his approach to book design in a video produced by Pentagram for Mohawk's "What Will You Make Today?" campaign.

‘The Cloak’ by Leprous is my new jam.

‘Glacier’ by Canvas Solaris is my new jam.

Last year, I wrote about the challenges of picking responsive-image breakpoints and how I found it a nearly unsolvable problem. It has vexed me since.

Jon Bell explains how proposing an intentionally bad first idea can break a group’s inertia and prompt better alternatives.

‘Simple Boy’ by Karnivool is my new jam.

In his presentation at An Event Apart in Seattle WA 2013, Mike Monteiro outlined the problems with designer/client relationships and what designers should do to fix them.

‘Odyssey’ by Scale The Summit is my new jam.

‘I Am Colossus’ by Meshuggah is my new jam.

Teton Gravity Research captures San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area from above.

Photographer Thierry Cohen created composite images reimagining major cities at night without light pollution, reconnecting city dwellers with a view of the stars.

Harry Brignull argues that CAPTCHA pushes a site’s spam problem onto its users and presents conversion data showing the cost of that friction.

‘Enemies (In Jail)’ by Paul Gilbert is my new jam.

Jeffrey Zeldman distinguishes caring deeply about the quality of the work from becoming paralyzed by approval, criticism, or external measures of success.

‘Master’s Apprentices’ by Opeth is my new jam.

Niice originally gathered images from curated design sources into one focused visual-inspiration search engine.

‘Come Talk To Me’ by Peter Gabriel is my new jam.

‘Reflections Carried to Mirror’ by Canvas Solaris is my new jam.

A journey through seasons I am still amazed by how well post rock goes with timelapse videos :)

LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) held a Stanley Kubrick exhibition running through June 2013.

The Royal Institution explains why magenta has no wavelength of its own and only exists as a mixture the brain constructs from red and blue light.

‘Sign Of Ruin’ by Pomegranate Tiger is my new jam.

Designer Massimo Vignelli, then 82, weighed in on American Airlines' redesigned logo.

A look at the UBIQUITOUS office, which combines wood, leather and technology.

The fourth issue of Offscreen continued the magazine’s focus on the people, ideas, and working lives behind websites and digital products.

The Peak

When you are so used to an application, you sometimes don’t think about its tricks and shortcuts anymore because they have become natural. Here are some favorite Photoshop layers shortcuts and tricks.

A community-maintained reference that collected practical conventions for writing, organizing, securing, and deploying WordPress projects.

Hold the ⇧ key while you drag a layer from one document onto another and the same position will be kept. This is great if you are working on a mobile app for example and want to move fixed assets (such as status bar, toolbars, background) from one PSD to the other.

A compact Photoshop workflow tip for moving through the Layers panel from the keyboard instead of repeatedly reaching for the mouse.

Bethany Heck shares methods for setting expectations, protecting momentum, and maintaining productive relationships throughout a creative project.

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), all 1.2 million words, was published online alongside The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

A library project questioning the role of a contemporary library in an age of competition from the internet and Amazon.

A trailer for Offscreen, a print periodical taking an in-depth look at the life and work of digital creators.

A theme that registers shortcodes and custom post types, handles SEO and analytics, and does everything else is not a perfect WordPress theme. It is a bloated one at best.

iRock is a power-generating rocking chair that charges Apple devices, harnessing its rocking motion through gears that wind a generator.

Being a web developer… Is as awesome as Chewbacca riding a squirrel, fighting Nazis with a cross bow.

A branding project for Snappy.

Today I want to kick off a new weekly(-ish) little series here on our blog we simple call “Desktop”. Every week we’ll feature 5 beautiful desktops/workspaces we picked up from around the Internets. Enjoy! Most photos via Simple Desks & Minimal Desks.

Clive Barker joins DeviantArt’s Odyssey II challenge, inviting artists to reinterpret creatures and scenes from his Abarat notebooks.

A roundup of top-100 list sources for science fiction and fantasy novels, including scifilists.sffjazz.com, David Pringle's Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, and Wikipedia's genre lists.

Unseen, a photography fair in Amsterdam, is a collaboration between the city's Fotografiemuseum and several other agencies, showcasing work from across the globe.

Flavorwire has a quick look at some noted directors (Kubrick, Wes Anderson, Fincher) and the typefaces that they often used. (via @curiousoctopus).

Mike Kus introduces Mixture, a local front-end development environment with live updates, dynamic templates, preprocessors, shared projects, and no server setup.

Erik Spiekermann sketches his ideal communicative workplace and explains how an office can encourage better exchange between people.

Eric Bidelman demonstrates how selected files can be handed to the browser’s former Filesystem API for local copying and manipulation.

The Brads: Begin Your Journey

A package design by Kitchen, from the Czech Republic, for the brand Volim.

Label design work for Delhaize's Wines of the World range.

Seth Godin argues that work is never truly finished in the digital age, and that the challenge for marketers, freelancers and entrepreneurs is to grow comfortable with that endless, unfinished cycle.

Has adaptive design failed? Of course it bloody hasn’t.

A video essay by kogonada examining the recurring sound and editing motifs across Darren Aronofsky's films.

An early exploration of vw, vh, and vmin units for sizing typography and layouts relative to the browser viewport.

Graphic design studio Lowe-SSP3 created three poster designs for Colsubsidio's "Book Exchange" program, using optical illusion to express the slogan "Come with a Story and Leave with Another."

A project titled "Shaking Has No Effect" by Say What Studio, from France.

Simurai demonstrates an SVG sprite technique that uses fragment identifiers and CSS to expose several icons from one file.

Google's promotional video for Gmail Tap, an April Fools' concept that reimagined email input as Morse code tapped on a two-button interface.

Accessibility guidance for writing descriptive links that remain meaningful when read out of context or scanned with assistive technology.

A series of long-exposure nighttime photographs of the Alps.

Daniel Brokstad, a Norwegian graphic designer and illustrator based in New York, designed the Possession wine collection branding.

A water tower concept inspired by the Himalayas.

An experimental short film directed by Andrew Thomas Huang, winner of the Special Jury Prize for Experimental Short at Slamdance 2012.

A series of fictional movie posters designed by Pascal Witaszek.

A photo taken above the clouds during a flight from Vienna to Frankfurt.

Jake Gyllenhaal plays a hipster-hunting killer in Daniel Wolfe’s dark, violent short for The Shoes.

“Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature.”

A packaging design project by Niklas Hessman.

A fan-made poster for the film Prometheus, created by the artist Midnight Marauder.

An artwork by Kilian Eng referencing André Breton and Philippe Soupault.

An illustration imagining Facebook's interface translated into real-life, physical interactions.

Matt Gemmell considers the point at which inconvenience, price, availability, or restrictions make piracy more attractive than purchasing.

A package design by Beza Project, from Poland, for the brand Mleko i Miod (Milk and Honey).

I’ve been using Sass for pretty much everything I do recently. Here are some musings on the journey, from hold-ups and trip-ups to turn-offs.

Daniel Glazman argues that web authors should test emerging standards, report implementation problems, and participate before browser behavior becomes entrenched.

Before becoming a Hollywood filmmaker, Stanley Kubrick worked as the youngest staff photographer ever hired by Look magazine.

Lid Sid, a product design by Luka Or.

A note on the CSS linear-gradient syntax change that made direction explicit with “to” keywords and aligned angles with the rest of CSS.

An illustration built around the line "Since the world drifts into delirium, we must adopt a delirious point of view."

A stop-motion video by Sean Ohlenkamp showing Type Books staff bringing an entire bookstore to life overnight.

Just the navigation for a redesign I am currently coding

Type study is an ongoing series of guest posts about typography on the web. In this article, Ethan Marcotte dishes up advice on font size.

A data visualization documenting how quickly many Android phones stopped receiving operating-system updates after release.

The Liquid Drop Sculptor

A JavaScript library for the Dribbble API.

A humorous illustration by Dan Eijah Fajardo (aka Dandingeroz) in collaboration with Pedro Kramer (aka Badbasilisk), mixing Angry Birds with Alfred Hitchcock.

"Animal Eyes" is a photographic series by Suren Manvelyan featuring extreme close-ups of animal eyes, including a horse, crocodile, husky, Siamese cat, python and hyena.

The jQuery Mobile team details its first 1.0 release candidate, including performance work, platform support, and changes made before the final release.

Silencio, a Paris nightclub conceived and designed by David Lynch, carries the filmmaker's distinctive, warped visual style.

A CSS fix that hides Facebook's "People To Subscribe To" and "People You May Know" sidebar sections by targeting the pagelet_ego_pane element.

Museum Busts Through Statue’s Face

"The Passions," a painting series by artist Martin Wittfooth, featured in Hi-Fructose magazine.

A package design by Jag Nagra, from Canada, built around a Depression-era circus tea party theme.

Graham Smith discusses logo-design pricing, deposits, client commitment, and the importance of defining payment terms before work begins.

The Ultimate Hitch Cookbook The recipes for Alfred Hitchcock’s classics

The hover state for a "Continue Reading" button, from a WestMill Capital web design project shared on Dribbble.

A news listing design from the WestMill Capital web project, shared on Dribbble.

My first Dribbble shot: WestMill Capital main navigation

The third Internet Explorer 10 platform preview, released alongside the Windows Developer Preview.

goosebumps…

There’s no shortage of debate about the best way to develop Web sites that work well across many networked devices. Some teams favor a client-side approach while others lean towards server-side solutions.

An illustration portfolio by Alexander Wells.

Deliver small images to small devices. Automatically adapts your existing HTML images for mobile devices. No mark-up changes needed. Just drop it in and forget about it. Why? Because your site is being increasingly viewed on smaller, slower, low bandwidth devices.

Improv Everywhere placed a wooden lectern fitted with a megaphone and a sign reading "Say Something Nice" in public spaces around New York.

A photography portfolio by Bruno Dayan.

A roundup of Europe's classiest rooftop bars, spanning cities including Madrid, Rome and Lisbon.

Capturing NYC’s Day and Night in One Frame

Tali Garsiel and Paul Irish explain the main components of a browser and trace the path from networking and parsing through layout and painting.

A guide to skinning the Google Chrome inspector with a custom theme.

Door Handle Acts as an Emergency Flashlight

Sosia, a product design by Emanuele Magini for Campeggi.

Oakland's Mr. Important Design clearly know a thing or two about what puts the hip into a hip nightspot, and their work for Chambers Eat & Drink in San Francisco does not disappoint.

Long exposure shots from the New Transit Yurikamome, an automated guideway train that connects Odaiba to the mainland, passing through the Rainbow Bridge.

A battery charger design concept by Donn Koh.

New illustrations by artist Jason Levesque.

Mac 'n' Cheese.

Adam Whitcroft demonstrates how to establish a baseline grid that keeps text and interface elements aligned to a consistent vertical rhythm.

A practical guide to common HTML5 markup errors, including unnecessary attributes, incorrect content models, and misuse of new semantic elements.

Photos from the opening night of a Last Rites gallery show featuring artists Chet Zar and Craig LaRotonda.

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, was the first human being to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961.

We’ve covered how to add a new color scheme to Twenty Eleven by child theming it in a previous post, and today I’ll show you how to create color schemes for your own theme, and have other developers take advantage of that to add their own new colors by child theming yours.

At long last, here is part 2 and here be geolocation! Aside from the geolocation API, we will talk about Web Storage (namely: localStorage) and a wee bit of jQuery for a quick AJAX call & fading effects.

The very talented and slightly odd Ron English is showing a collection of recent work at Lazarides’ Rathbone Place gallery in London.

Part 1 of a two-part article covering HTML and CSS, setting up an idea to locate visitors with the geolocation API and darken a page's styling around sunrise and sunset.

A luxury retreat built into the Australian outback.

A packaging design for elastic bands by Ric Bixter, from the United Kingdom.

A collaborative guide in which twenty practitioners share practical lessons for planning, running, and measuring social media work.

With the rise of mobile devices, web development and debugging is more complex than ever. We have more browsers and platforms to support. We have more screen sizes and resolutions. And we’re building in-browser applications instead of the flat, brochure-ware sites of yore.

I’m a huge fan of Dropbox. I use it every day both to make my work computer-agnostic and to collaborate with others.

Ironic world of Psychospa, the world which reflects a modern man living in a metropolis, unsociable and full of fears and anxieties but “attracted” to nature.

In this TED talk, designer Stefan Sagmeister shares lessons on happiness drawn from a year-long sabbatical, illustrated with his own graphic design work.

Daniel Box recreated early Instagram looks—including Nashville, Earlybird, Brannan, X-Pro II, and Inkwell—as downloadable Photoshop actions.

The Brads: How Photos Work on the iCloud

A photograph or artwork by Frederik Frede.

A tutorial showing how to create a realistic illustration of a burning match in Illustrator using fire gradient meshes.

An untitled photograph by Brian Oldham, shared on Flickr.

It seems every premium WordPress theme these days calls itself “SEO-friendly”. They’re usually not. So, I thought I’d lay down some WordPress SEO theme rules and guidelines.

Ben Pieratt writes candidly about moving from graphic design into running Svpply and learning a startup leadership role without a ready-made playbook.

Google Web Fonts introduces the text parameter, allowing a request to include only the glyphs needed for a heading or logo.

Do you struggle to explain or understand why a website looks different in different browsers? If so, I might just be able to help.

Surreal Adventures, art by Sergey Ryzhov

Metropol Parasol, a giant timber structure in Seville designed by J. Mayer H. architects, took six years to develop before opening to the public.

Alice of Magic World is a Tokyo restaurant designed with a deliberately psychedelic, trippy interior, by Fantastic Design Works Co.

An animated short by Chris Harmon illustrating just how much oil the Gulf spill released and how dependent everyday life is on oil, timed to the spill's one-year anniversary.

Ira Glass explains the gap between strong creative taste and early work—and why producing a large volume of work is the way through it.

Fontspring explains how to solve the compatibility problems its @font-face syntax encountered in Internet Explorer 9.

Wee Nudge presented short, approachable lessons intended to help clients understand how websites are designed, built, and maintained.

A time-lapse film by TSO Photography capturing the Milky Way over El Teide, Spain's highest mountain, including a Saharan sandstorm that unexpectedly lit up the night sky.

Based out Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tiago Hoisel specializes in creating hilarious animated illustrations. Aside from being incredibly eye-catching, each of his pieces has a strong, clever narrative.

An architecture and design firm called Choi+Shine has submitted a design for the Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon International Design Competition which proposes giant human-shaped pylons carrying electricity cables across the country’s landscape.

Twister is a newly opened restaurant in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.

A bike hanger concept designed to save space for bicycle storage in dense urban areas.

A CreativeMornings San Francisco talk in which Mike Monteiro, co-founder of Mule Design Studio, argues that designers need contracts and should insist on being paid for their work.

Stoyan Stefanov combines several sounds into one file and uses the HTML5 audio API to play selected segments, reducing separate HTTP requests.

Roots introduced a cleaner WordPress starter theme and grew into an open-source toolset for structured, modern WordPress development.

Opera 11.10, codenamed Barracuda, brought an updated Speed Dial, improved plug-in installation, and broader web-standards support.

A programmer’s perspective on why fragmentation, inconsistent platform conventions, and tooling made polished Android interfaces harder to produce.

Float4 collaborated with several partners to build a natural-user-interface interactive wall for the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, a research hub for campus and community members.

One of the main changes from HTML4 to HTML5 is that the new specification breaks a few boundaries browsers had been confined to. HTML5 promotes multimedia with richly specified video and audio elements and JavaScript APIs.

Lorempixum generated random or categorized placeholder photographs at dimensions specified directly in the image URL.

The Grace Santorini Hotel in Greece, designed by Architects Divercité in collaboration with M+M.

Laser Towards Milky Ways Center. The color of the laser is precisely tuned to energize a layer of sodium atoms found in one of the upper layers of the atmosphere — one can recognize the familiar color of sodium street lamps in the color of the laser.

Here’s one of my favorite quotes from him when he talks about photography. “It’s how I define myself. Everyone needs something that they can be proud of. I need something that I can put out in front of me and say ‘this is what I am capable of.’”.

NOVA: A Free Documentary about Contemporary Art An inspiring 75min DIY documentary film on new art and the young artists behind it. Now to watch the film. :)

Ilya Grigorik examines Google’s SPDY protocol, its approach to multiplexing and compression, and its influence on the web beyond HTTP/1.1.

I’ve always kept hierarchy to a minimum. Then an employee said, “Promote me,” and I was forced to reevaluate my organizational structure.

A honey liqueur made with Jack Daniel's whiskey, aimed at drinkers who like the Jack brand but not straight whiskey, with packaging designed to communicate a light, smooth flavor.

Ghostly Holographic Artwork Using special colored pencils, Beijing-based Xia Xiaowan paints on 14 to 30 panes of glass to create ghostly holographic artwork.…

"Subemergence," a digital artwork by artist Arcipello.

Agency SYZYGY's concept video for GOAB, a proposed television experience that reimagines how people might watch TV as internet, on-demand and mobile viewing converge.

WhatFont provides a quick way to identify typefaces used on a webpage by hovering over rendered text.

Michael Wolff, Is This a Good Time for Creativity?

A walkthrough for using WordPress post formats and custom fields to publish Tumblr-style link posts whose titles point to external sources.

San Francisco-based Matt Sartain is a photographer who is influenced by his love of storytelling, which is highly evident in his photo series, Misadventures.

ALL in ONE, a surreal short film by Frédéric Sofiyana

Krc&Ko. (Crunch&Co. in English) is a line of snack products for which PGS created the visual identity, naming and package design.

Dribbble is a fantastic place for designers to share their works in progress, and is also a great place for designers to gain inspiration and pick out recurring trends across the design spectrum.

Founder and CEO of Inventionland George Davison built a 70,000 square-foot wonderland to inspire and delight his employees.

In this TED talk, entrepreneur Derek Sivers uses the example of a Japanese ambulance to argue that what strikes us as strange in another culture is often just different, not wrong.

Any time you move to a new place, you learn some new things and unlearn some others. It keeps you from feeling you’re right and others are wrong. It keeps the brain in constant circulation. No one place feels like home.

A playful Sony Alpha campaign turns unusual industrial, urban, and natural locations into photographic discoveries.

Phuket’s Luxury Retreat on the Rocks Nestled in rocks above Kamala Beach in Phuket, Thailand, you will find Villa Amanzi, the ultimate luxury getaway.…

A double-exposure portrait series by photographer Dan Mountford.

A WWF campaign by Ogilvy Paris raising awareness about the endangered bluefin tuna.

Flying Over America Photographer Cameron Davidson has traveled to almost every state in America but he doesn’t spend a lot of time on the ground. As an aerial…

A series of photo composites blending World War II imagery with comic book superheroes like Batman.

A photography series by Dirk Rees exploring the human body in motion.

The Cube is the French Spiderman of fine dining and then some.

An illustration portfolio by Kilian Eng, an illustrator from Sweden.

When a nightmare is born, the whole dreamspace will stand still for a heartbeat. A small tribute to the first fear ever felt, the first spark that set this vast world in motion.

Ruamoko, the baby of the gods, has finally been released from the womb of the earth-mother Papatuanuku. He roams the landscape searching for his family, only to find that they’ve been forgotten and faded away.

A nice project by Samy Halim who designed the solution to everyone (especially designers) who want to add some Pantone paints to their walls.

Brooklyn, New York-based Eric Ogden is a celebrity photographer who knows how to create a mood. Using just the right amount of lighting, he’s able to capture some of our favorite celebrities looking introspective and even a bit forlorn.

Solidarités International uses water-reactive ink to reveal the deadly consequences of unsafe drinking water.

A short film directed by Ross Ching for DTS, turning an array of loudspeakers into a conducted orchestra.

Surreal illustrations by artist Anton Semenov.

When tasked with creating a synthetic urban tree for the City of Boston (or any city) that could provide all the benefits of a real tree (de-carbonization and protection) without requiring soil and water, a team from Paris rose to the challenge.

Casting aside any tendencies to nod towards the past of this historic cultural institution – El Molino was originally opened in 1898 – with retro or kitsch touches, Barcelona’s Fernando Salas has thoroughly embraced futurist design with his breathtaking interior restyling.

Los Angeles-based EMERGENT was awarded first prize in a competition to design China’s 2013 National Games Arena.

Valley of Mists by ~One-Vox This guy’s gallery is packed with this type of disturbingly wonderful imagery, a must see (if you’re into this sort of art).

In this TED talk, physicist Janna Levin explains how black holes and other massive cosmic objects generate sound and vibration, arguing that space is not the silent place we imagine.

The music video for "I Lived on the Moon" by French musician Kwoon, from his debut album Tales and Dreams, directed by Yannick Puig.

In this tutorial, we’ll look at how to take basic markup and transform it into an attractive typographical design using only minimum images, pure CSS3 magic and we will spice things up with lettering.js – a jQuery plugin for radical Web Typography.

A collection of creative packaging designs, spanning the science, art and technology of covering a product to store, distribute and promote it.

A photograph titled "Descent," part of Bernie Dechant's Huangshan, China series.

Anti-shyness Lift Sticker Social experiment for crowded elevators by Fabio Milito‘Embarrassment can turn into fun or paranoia’

What Pi sounds like A musician interprets Pi to 31 decimal places.

A universal wrapping paper design by Fabio Milito and Francesca Guidotti.

Today we are talking about Helmo, the graphic design duo made up of Thomas Coudred and Clement Vauchez. The pair create everything you would think a designer would create: books, typography, and signage.

How to Make Money in 6 Easy Steps Entrepreneur Jason Fried offers the most fundamental of all small-business advice: how to get good at making money.

eVolo magazine's annual Skyscraper Competition, running for five years, invites architects to propose innovative new skyscraper typologies.

Brooklyn-based artist Clement Valla's Postcards from Google Earth series documents rendering glitches in Google Earth's bridge imagery.

Identity Portfolio by Coba & Associates Nice Identity Portfolio by Coba & Associates, a Studio from Serbia.

Practicing paint styles and of course some geometry. lol.

With this mix I wanted to create a cover that touched on a Jonny Quest, meets Steve Zissou, meets Outer Space, meets National Geographic vibe. So what you’ll see in this tutorial is the process by which I came to the result you see above.

Masters of Surreal Storytelling

On my recent stay at the Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas, I was taken aback by an incredibly cool experience in their lobby. Created by Digital Kitchen, the living art is made up of 8 columns, which have 12 individual screens on each side.

Designer and TED Fellow Candy Chang transformed an abandoned house into a giant chalkboard inviting passersby to share their aspirations.

The Brads: Finding Inspiration

Since 2002 photographer Robert B. Haas has focused on aerial photography, capturing the grandeur of Earth's continents from a unique perspective.

An interactive architectural video mapping by 1024 Architecture, projected onto the facade of the former Celestins theater for the Fete des Lumieres in Lyon, France.

The Book Surgeon Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical…

A makeup and photography shoot paying tribute to typography and a handful of type designers.

A Day Made of Glass… Made possible by Corning. To say that I am impressed with what they are promising would be such an understatement. :)

A Mercedes-Benz ad campaign exploring the link between creativity and the brain.

A collection of detailed sketches drawn in Moleskine notebooks.

A bachelor film project from The Animation Workshop about a reckless driver whose attempt to hit a deer on a forest road has brutal consequences.

A memorial-themed digital artwork by DeviantArt user coxi.

Using a variety of mixed media including oil, acrylic, ink, charcoal and graphite, artist Ian Francis creates fantasy-fueled scenes that are filled with mystery and intrigue.

The developer-focused HTML specification presents the elements, APIs, and implementation requirements relevant to people building web applications.

Willem Dafoe considers the lives that might follow from a single bold choice in this Jim Beam campaign.

An exhibition for the shortlist of photographers in the 2011 Prix Pictet photography and sustainability competition, held at the Passage de Retz gallery in Paris from March 17 to April 16.

Program cover designs created for the 2011 BAFTA Film Awards.

A short film by Jesse Rosten capturing the Redwood forests of Northern California, with words by Kallie Markle and music by The Album Leaf.

Peter Gasston moves beyond media-query syntax to practical decisions about breakpoints, flexible layouts, and serving different capabilities.

Water Sculpture by Shinichi Maruyama

Natsumi Hayashi is a Japanese photographer who takes self-portraits of herself levitating around Tokyo, equipped with her SLR and self-timer.

Leonardo da Vinci’s letter to Ludovico Sforza presents his engineering, military, architectural, and artistic abilities like a remarkably modern résumé.

Amplify is a set of components designed to solve common web application problems with a simplistic API. Amplify’s goal is to simplify all forms of data handling by providing a unified API for various data sources.

As a graphic designer and photographer from Finland, Mikko Lagerstedt has that rare ability we don’t often see, he knows how to create a mood.

Hundreds of Tourist Photos Weaved into One Switzerland-based Corinne Vionnet is our guide to the world’s most famous landmarks, monuments millions have…

An animated short by David OReilly, following a boy learning to play the piano, that premiered at the Venice Film Festival before its US premiere at Sundance 2011.

Otherworldly Scenes England born and based-photographer Dan Holdsworth uses extremely long exposure times to create incredibly intriguing scenes that straddle…

Inspiring Illustrations by Marcos Chin

Roof Garden House Designed by Guz Architects, the Meera House has a roof garden on every story. Because the structure is located on a small plot, close to…

In this TED talk, architect Michael Pawlyn argues that architects can learn from natural systems, drawing on biomimicry to design more sustainable buildings.

Frank Chimero’s contribution to Un Sedicesimo gathers sixteen prompts and activities intended to help creative practice stay playful and productive.

An autodocumentary exploring collaboration, ownership, distribution, and patronage in networked art.

A cube-shaped modern building whose form recalls the Death Star.

WWF - We Are All Connected

A follow-up to a Color Theory Quick Reference Poster, this cheat sheet gives a quick overview of the elements of design at a glance.

NASA’s STEREO spacecraft reached opposite sides of the Sun in 2011, allowing the entire solar surface to be observed at once for the first time.

An introduction to jQuery Deferred objects and how they coordinate asynchronous work through callbacks, promises, and composition.

Design a Vintage Style Swissair Travel Poster In Photoshop An awesome Photoshop tut by my friend, Nikola Lazarević

MTV’s Ultra-Modern Headquarters in Berlin

Dramatic Waters of Iceland

Magnificent Modern-Day Movie Posters

Photography by Christian Stoll, a photographer from Germany.

OMS Stage, a performance pavilion in Old Market Square, Winnipeg, home to the city's Jazz and Fringe festivals and a hub of its cultural activity.

Since the beginning of the webfont revolution, we’ve relied on somewhat hacky @font-face declarations to get webfonts loading cross-browser. Could there be a better way?

An early jQuery Mobile milestone from the project that brought touch-friendly, progressively enhanced interface components to mobile websites.

A photograph by Mark Withers.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film Black Swan.

Derek Sivers explains how documenting recurring work and delegating it helped him escape the bottleneck of doing everything himself.

Digital art by illustrator Nicolas Bouvier.

Enchanted by Asia

Splash Calendar 2011, a fashion calendar designed by Tejal Patni, from the United Arab Emirates.

Russian artist Eugene Soloviev crafts disquieting imaginary urban landscapes shrouded in fog, filled with strange architecture and impervious to gravity.

Make it better (by Sebastianbap)

Best Countries for Atypical Things

Andy Clarke adapts a photographic idea into a design exercise for identifying, ordering, and communicating the parts of an experience that matter most.

A whimsical, dreamlike illustration or art piece.

Kyle Neath presents a pragmatic approach to URLs as durable, human-readable parts of a web interface.

The W3C’s recommendations for improving mobile web applications cover performance, network use, input, layout, capabilities, and user experience.

Eric Meyer revisits the reasoning behind his CSS reset and the compromises involved in neutralizing inconsistent browser defaults.

A step-by-step guide to creating a detailed gauge icon in Photoshop.

Illustrator Bill Carman shares his artwork on his blog.

An illustration titled "Couch" by designer Frank Chimero.

A jQuery plugin for building a custom, styleable content scrollbar.

A poster series representing different musical genres.

A project exploring simplified, minimalist alternatives to the packaging of well-known international brands.

Moleskine Mini Planners

kurzundschön shortfilm competition We wanted to show the short and nice moment when felicity and serenity come together.

A concept illustration of the Knave of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, by artist Michael Kutsche.

A series of miniature dioramas depicting apocalyptic scenes.

A roundup of 50 unique, minimal product packaging designs.

The northern lights sweep across the night sky in this wintry time-lapse.

The original Ben the Bodyguard site used an unusually tall, cinematic scrolling narrative to introduce an iPhone privacy app.

A selection of travel photographs from Vietnam.

37signals recently released a blackboard web app for iPad called Chalk. It includes Zepto, a few images, an iOS SpringBoard icon, and, of course, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

An illustration portfolio by Goni Montes.

Reuters photographers produce more than half a million images a year; this is a selection of the year's best.

iOS 4.2.1 added support for the sizes attribute, allowing sites to provide multiple appropriately sized home-screen icons.

The Animals Inside Us

It basically allows you to create an element that will “stick” to the top of the window as the user scrolls, but which will not move outside of its parent element.

A surreal Batelco campaign follows its protagonists through an ever-changing, dreamlike city.

Iconic Icon Set Iconic is a minimal set of icons consisting of 136 marks in raster, vector and font formats — free for public use.

DepthJS DepthJS is a web browser extension that allows any any web page to interact with the Microsoft Kinect via JavaScript.

Eight coffee shops that use color and design to attract customers.

An interactive visualization lets you move from the smallest known scales to the observable universe and compare objects along the way.

A library cafe project for the Institut Français, by the design agency Lundi et Demi.

Mars: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea, an amazing photography series P.S. I wonder if Ray Bradbury has seen this.

A tutorial for creating a multi-step signup form with CSS3 and jQuery, including a progress bar showing completion percentage.

Opera 11 beta became available for download, bringing new features and improvements to existing tools like tabs and mouse gestures.

A small WordPress technique for querying and displaying recent comments outside the default post discussion template.

David Airey shares a professional response that explains why speculative design work is harmful and proposes a paid process instead.

A Safari icon set exploring new compass concepts for the browser, developed with input from the Dribbble and Twitter design communities.

Sleepover filtered Typekit’s catalog to identify text families with lowercase, uppercase, bold, italic, and bold italic styles suitable for longer reading.

Dan Cederholm's book CSS3 for Web Designers, released as an ebook in PDF, ePub and mobi formats.

Picas, an upcoming pictogram set designed by Rok Benedik.

jQuery’s data method can make code more concise and clean. As of jQuery 1.4.3, it could also be used on regular JavaScript objects and listen for changes.

A playing card deck design in progress by Felix Blommestijn.

A tilt-shift photography piece inspired by Van Gogh, created by Serena Malyon.

A diagram contrasting article-focused online journalism with layouts dominated by advertising, lists, and comments.

Conan O’Brien travels to India in search of the perfect curtain for his new show in this American Express campaign.

IDEO in Palo Alto have paper office tables which let you sketch/jot down ideas; then take them with you when you leave. Clever.

A standout business card design.

A cheat sheet covering common grammar mistakes and how to structure a sentence correctly.

"One Cup," a product design by Utopik Design.

Ten examples of inspirational typography found across the web.

A roundup of 20 billboard ads that stand out from the usual cheap, poorly conceived roadside advertising.

Tapi turns any tap into a drink fountain, releasing a stream of water when squeezed.

A tutorial demonstrating how to create a cute Twitter bird icon in Photoshop.

A fantasy-themed photography series by Kristy Mitchell, created in part as an escape following her mother's diagnosis with a brain tumor.

A demo of an ambient-light effect applied to HTML5 video.

A look at designers who became role models for an ebook on the apparel industry by starting their own clothing lines.

Sintel - An amazing 15 minute production from The Blender Foundation. You can watch the YouTube version, but multiple high resolution renders of the film and the entire soundtrack are available for download.

Microsoft Press made Charles Petzold’s complete guide to programming Windows Phone 7 available as a free ebook and companion code download.

An AC/DC-themed wallpaper for Apple devices.

Art Project of the Day: Aram Bartholl has been going around NYC installing a number of anonymous, offline, public p2p file-sharing networks in the form of wall-embedded USB flash drives into which anyone can connect in order to upload/download random files.

Five things carrots can do that HTML5 can’t

Microsoft’s sixth Internet Explorer 9 platform preview highlighted hardware-accelerated HTML5, standards work, and another round of browser performance improvements.

A list of ten strange, real phenomena found in outer space.

Geof Crowl’s understated Utah landscape prompted hundreds of designers to respond with their own state-themed Dribbble shots.

A visual dictionary of typography terms for type enthusiasts.

A tutorial on using the CSS :target pseudo-class and fragment identifiers to create stateful interfaces without JavaScript.

A demo video for TAT Home, a mobile home-screen concept from The Astonishing Tribe built around live app content and gesture navigation.

CSS Transition End Events dropshadows: WebKit : webkitTransitionEnd Firefox : transitionend Opera : oTransitionEnd Tested in this fiddle

After more than 10k downloads of my old app icon template and countless of requests for an update, i’ve put together an app icon template that should make your icon endeavors on the iOS platform easier.

At a rally in Seattle, an Obama supporter asked the President to sign his iPad, and Obama happily obliged.

Documentation is the first thing that a customer will see after buying a WordPress theme, but it’s often very poor. Why? Documentation is done last.

Most in-page imagery on websites sucks. Grabbed from random sources and slapped on the website, it lacks design and consistency. However, your iPhone can help.

Tim Ahrens compares how browsers and operating systems rasterize web type, explaining why the same font can look markedly different across platforms.

Winamp launched a beta version of its Android app.

A tutorial for building an application with Opera Link, the browser’s former API for synchronizing bookmarks and other user data.

Another awesome example of what can be done with CSS3 from Oliver W. I love these little guys Check them out here.

Opera 11’s first alpha introduced browser extensions built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript alongside performance, mail, and web-platform improvements.

Firefox 4 dropped the -moz- prefix from border-radius and box-shadow.

I rarely buy web design books (preferring to absorb tips and techniques online), but my credit card comes out when Andy Clarke publishes something. Hardboiled Web Design looks like another work of art with minimal nonsense.

A List Apart’s 2010 survey gathered data about the roles, education, compensation, and working lives of people who build websites.

Leo Babauta offers nine questions for deciding whether an object still serves a purpose or has become clutter.

Today, we’ll dive in, and build a simple Tuts+ RSS reader, using PHP and jQuery Mobile. When we’re finished, you’ll have the ability to add this simple project to your iPhone or Android phone with the click of a button, as well as the skills to build your web apps!

A rotating collection of deliberately terrible “enterprise” front-end advice that satirizes overengineered CSS, HTML, and JavaScript conventions.

A demonstration of handling WebKit touch events to recognize movement, scaling, and rotation gestures on early multitouch devices.

A development update tracking the features planned for WordPress 3.1 as the project approached its code freeze.

David DeSandro’s JavaScript utility recreates pixelation with configurable circles, diamonds, rectangles, and layered effects.

A feature on H.R. Giger in Exposé 8, subtitled "Grand Master."

Conan destroys a car full of explosives while counting down to the premiere of his TBS show.

Composites by Dave Hill capture cinematic scenes bursting with energy and chaos, each photo built as its own storytelling piece.

A roundup of resources for traveling freelancers who need a place to call home base, beyond the usual hotels and hostels.

Paul Irish introduces the original Flexible Box Model and demonstrates alignment, distribution, ordering, and flexible sizing patterns.

An excerpt from Stoyan Stefanov’s JavaScript Patterns covering the essentials of writing high-quality JavaScript: avoiding globals, using single-variable declarations, pre-caching loop lengths, and following coding conventions.

"Venom's Lair," a building designed by Coll-Barreu Arquitectos for the Basque Department of Health.

A practical introduction to choosing web typefaces by purpose, tone, readability, available styles, and the demands of the surrounding design.

Naomi Dunford's guide to attending conferences on a tight budget.

An argument that early magazine apps reproduced print too literally instead of taking advantage of the iPad’s connected, interactive medium.

An argument for making better use of the browser's URL bar, recapturing it as a source of navigational utility.

In this Photoshop tutorial, [you will learn] how to create a striking vintage-style design with awesome “wear and tear” effects that will reinforce the theme we are aiming to accomplish.

Remy Sharp responds to arguments against using HTML5 and makes the case for progressive enhancement rather than waiting for universal support.

15 Useful Wordpress Functions You Probably Dont Know.

An examination of procrastination as a reward loop, with practical ways to make progress feel more immediately satisfying.

Johnny Depp surprises a London primary school in character as Captain Jack Sparrow after receiving a pupil’s request for help with a mutiny.

Mozilla’s first Firefox 4 mobile beta brought the desktop browser’s platform and Sync support to Android and Maemo.

A roundup of design techniques and coding solutions for creating an intuitive, functional user interface on the web.

In his “iPad Design Headaches” presentation, Josh Clark outlined common iPad design issues and ways to address them.

ColorZilla’s visual editor generates cross-browser CSS gradients with color stops, transparency, orientation, and import tools.

A free Moleskine notebook icon, released in PSD, PNG, ICO and ICNS formats.

Philip Neches considers how the iPad’s illuminated screen changes reading in bed and why a small capability can reshape an experience.

A List Apart reports on the roles, salaries, education, skills, and working conditions of people who made websites in 2009.

The launch of Nothing to Install, a question-and-answer community for web-application users that later became Web Applications Stack Exchange.

Introducing OmmWriter Dāna, a writer’s haven

A poster design themed around coffee and cigarettes, built around an ampersand.

How Ink Is Made Seems like this guy has one of those jobs. :)

Fluency, a WordPress admin theme compatible with WordPress 3.0.

Hog Bay Software’s PlainText paired a distraction-free iPhone and iPad editor with automatic Dropbox synchronization.

Webfonts.info collected references, services, tools, and technical guidance for designers beginning to use downloadable type on the web.

A compact teaching reference illustrating common typographic mistakes in punctuation, spacing, alignment, and character selection.

An early hands-on look at RIM’s seven-inch BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and its gesture-driven interface.

A meditation on how designers can be just as guilty as clients when responding to changes in their work.

A minimalist poster series based on Stephen King novels.

A WordPress technique for adding a custom fallback avatar without modifying core files or replacing Gravatar behavior.

An argument that changing tools and conventions would not eliminate web designers but shift their work toward systems, interaction, and broader product thinking.

Projekktor is an open-source JavaScript media player that provided a consistent HTML5 interface with fallbacks for older browsers.

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An illustration portfolio by Russ Mills, an illustrator from England.

A concise explanation of the HTML async attribute and how it allows scripts to load without blocking document parsing.

A compact progress-bar experiment built with CSS rather than image assets or a plugin.

Fillerati, an alternative to Lorem Ipsum filler text.

Oton Bačar slows Canon 7D BMX footage from 60 to an interpolated 1,000 frames per second with Twixtor.

A collection of Photoshop crash report screenshots, continuing an earlier post on the same topic.

Lost World’s Fairs showcases imaginative exhibitions through richly illustrated, vertically scrolling pages built as an HTML5 and web-font experiment.

This is just awesome. :) boagworld: You want a bigger logo? You can’t handle a bigger logo!

A speed-drawing video by designer Michael Flarup showing the process behind his replacement icon set for iTunes 10.

An entry in the 52 Weeks of UX series on how to introduce change within a product or organization.

A 2010 Authentic Jobs fundraiser paired small donations to charity: water with a chance to win a limited-edition Colosseo bicycle.

Photo from fuckyeahlatefines.tumblr.com.

A tip for CSS box-model math: note the subtraction you did to arrive at a padded or bordered element's width, so it is easy to recalculate if any of the variables change.

Dan Cederholm explains why SimpleBits stopped redirecting visitors based on device type and moved toward one flexible, shared experience.

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