Paul Russo

webkitbits:

WebDesignerWall looks at CSS3 Examples and Best Practices, by looking at some of the best websites, like the FOWD site shown above, using CSS3 to their advantage. The general “best practice” of the article: Progressively enhance, but don’t rely.

matthewb:

A jQuery plugin to style checkboxes, drop-down menus, radio buttons and file upload inputs the same across all browsers. Includes default themes by Josh Pyles and Made by Sofa, plus tools to build your own. (via Tim Van Damme)

USPS Augmented Reality Virtual Box, this is by far the most functional and best use of augmented reality I have ever seen.

webkitbits:

Jay Robinson posts a great comparison between WebKit’s Web Inspector and Firefox’s Firebug extension.

I cannot use Safari purely because Web Inspector is terrible, you cannot edit the HTML and editing the CSS is nearly impossible.

ckck:

Beautiful minimalistic timeline infographic from GOOD.

View the full, uncropped version.

The New Skittle’s Website - Experience the Rainbow is live and hilarious, go check it out.

The MacView… if only Apple had released this instead. This is an incredible concept designed to the T. The detail in this design concept is ridiculous and I love how they even designed the packaging.

bauldoff:

MakingOf has posted a video clip of the Up In The Air film title sequence, created by Shadowplay Studio. Shadowplay was also behind the titles to Jason Reitman’s Juno and Thank You For Smoking films.

In this interview, Reitman said this about collecting the aerial footage seen in the titles:

(Shadowplay) came up with this idea of vintage moving postcards, the most complicated element of which was getting this aerial footage that seems like film. I figured you put a camera in a plane, you put it up in the air, you point down, you get aerial footage, right? I really thought it would be that simple. It was so complicated. Every time you see aerial footage in a movie it’s from a helicopter at 12,000 ft. To get it from 25,000 ft, first we went up with a jet and we had a camera that was going through this bubble system, except the optics weren’t good enough and atmosphere was giving us trouble. Then we went up with a propeller plane and the pilot had to wear an oxygen mask to get up that high; we took a camera out on a wing, we went digital instead of film, and then the camera would not go straight down, so they’d have to put the plane into a dive to get the camera to go down. I mean it was just like unreal how hard it was to get this footage. But I’m really happy with the results and of course it made for fun opening titles.

Additionally, Apple has a short featurette about Shadowplay and the Up In The Air titles.

davidkaneda:

Teehan+Lax have released an iPad GUI PSD with tons of the new UI components (like “popovers”, wide keyboard, and split views) available in the iPad. Another excellent resource from the awesome duo.

davidkaneda:

Icon Dock has released a set of 50 social media icons, all with full vector formats. This is a great resource for creating your own social media graphics, especially if you have any print needs.