Paul Russo

Jonathan Moore: Workaholism

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:30:16 -0600

From 37signals’ book REWORK, illustration by Mike Rohde
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- Excerpt from 37signals’ REWORK released today, download PDF excerpt

There has been several times in my career where I fell into this cycle working countless nights and weekends. Looking back a lot of what drives…

webkitbits: jacob: I always have to stop and think when...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:41:56 -0600

webkitbits:

jacob:

I always have to stop and think when setting a border radius in CSS, so I built a tool for it: border-radius.com.

gamefreaksnz: Straight Outta Vulcan by ~tetsuoshima on...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:15:43 -0600

gamefreaksnz:

Straight Outta Vulcan by ~tetsuoshima on deviantART

davidkaneda: A play-by-play recap of last week’s fantastic...

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:36:27 -0600

davidkaneda:

A play-by-play recap of last week’s fantastic Layer Tennis between Khoi Vinh and Nicholas “Feltron” Felton. I asked on Twitter, and the condensed font used throughout the match is Heroic Condensed (thanks @nickheise).

matthewb: One of four Jules Verne cover designs by Jim Tierney...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:42:39 -0600

matthewb:

One of four Jules Verne cover designs by Jim Tierney created for his senior year thesis project. Faceout Books has extensive coverage including original sketches and this video of the completed books. Would buy! (via Meagan Fisher)

CSS Photo Mess

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:55:10 -0600

CSS Photo Mess

Elliot Jay Stocks » Web designers who can’t code

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:28:00 -0600

Elliot Jay Stocks » Web designers who can’t code:

This is a really great post and he has some great links in it as well…

I still have not made it through the whole discussion, but I completely agree with Elliot on this. I think it is essential to being a good web designer to understand how the web actually works. So many of the choices we make as designers are set by our limitations. Also things like grid systems and frameworks may alter your design choices. There is obviously a difference between choosing not to code and not knowing how to code.

I have been doing front-end coding for the last 4-5 years and it has made me a better web designer for it. I love being able to take something I have designer and move it into code having complete control of the end result. If you want to become a better web designer then you need to become better and front-end development.

Wired Magazine and iPad… This just got me excited about...

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:23:41 -0600

Wired Magazine and iPad… This just got me excited about the ipad and reading… I know I dont read ha.

Making your website grid-aligned using gridfox and firebug

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:12:18 -0600

Making your website grid-aligned using gridfox and firebug:

My two favorite things, grids and firebug

mxvltr: patdryburgh: sabbatical: Next time they come with the...

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:35:45 -0600

mxvltr:

patdryburgh:

sabbatical:

Next time they come with the “free downloads are damaging the creative people” shtick, show them this. (via Rob Paterson’s Posterous)

This makes me sick to my stomach.

W. T. F.

I’d rather be a small indie band selling my own records instead of selling millions of albums signed at a large record company.

webkitbits: WebDesignerWall looks at CSS3 Examples and Best...

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:49:01 -0600

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.

Uniform

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:15:55 -0600

Uniform:

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...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:46:22 -0600

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...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:44:50 -0600

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...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:10:13 -0600

ckck:

Beautiful minimalistic timeline infographic from GOOD.

View the full, uncropped version.

The New Skittle’s Website - Experience the Rainbow is live...

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:15:23 -0600

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...

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:36:01 -0600

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...

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:16:48 -0600

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...

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:15:33 -0600

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...

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:15:16 -0600

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.