Matthew Inman propone un simpatico collage di illustrazioni sullo Stato del Web - estate 2008

With the following list of resources, you can learn, optimize, and beautify your web typography, and never need to worry about those pesky compatibility issues again (I wish!).

“150 pixelcrafted icons mainly intended for developers. These have been a few months in the making, so enjoy them and put them to good use.” (PixelResort.com)

“When it comes to design, the UK is home to some of the world’s biggest talent. But who are the brightest stars? We put together a panel of judges to identify the hottest names. Here they are…” [Guardian Unlimited]

“Business Cards, the Calling Card …with their everyday and ephemeral nature but also as a keepsake - a token of remembrance, this intrigues me …” [dailypoetics]

The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web’s infancy, the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities.

“Smashing Magazine (…) selected 60 fresh, elegant, professional and visually appealing designs, which pay close attention to details and manage to remain simple, user-friendly and nice-looking.”

‘’Eulda is the high-profile graphic design award scheme that rewards the best projects in Europe in the field of logo design. All the winning logos are published in a volume of exceptional quality printed by multiple award-winning printer Fontegrafica.'’

Eligibility
‘’For Eulda ‘07, any logo printed, published or visible online between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2006 is eligible. Eulda is open to European designers, studios, agencies and their clients living or working within Europe. All entrants may submit as many works as they wish. Any country within the geographical definition of Europe (including the UK, all Scandinavian countries, all EU countries, etc) is considered European for the purposes of Eulda.'’

[more on eulda.com]

‘’@media has a reputation for being one of the world’s foremost events for web professionals. Doubling in size last year, 800 people from over 30 countries gathered in London to see some of the world’s most highly respected web experts speak about the latest issues in best practice web design.'’

‘’Inspiration, information, advice and entertainment; what more do you want? The following blogs offer all these elements in different measures and combinations, but they do have one thing in common: whether design is your bread and butter or for your eyes only, they are must-reads.'’ [Crestock.com Blog]

“Readymechs are free, flatpack toys for you to print and build. They are designed to fit on an 8.5″x11″ page and printed with any printer. You’ll need double-sided tape, thick matte paper, and 10-15 minutes for build time.” [via lifehacker]

Standards, argues Jeffrey Zeldman in Designing With Web Standards, are our only hope for breaking out of the endless cycle of testing that plagues designers hoping to support all possible clients.

In this book, he explains how designers can best use standards–primarily XHTML and CSS, plus ECMAScript and the standard Document Object Model (DOM)–to increase their personal productivity and maximize the availability of their creations. Zeldman’s approach is detailed, authoritative, and rich with historical context, as he is quick to explain how features of standards evolved. It’s a fantastic education that any design professional will appreciate. (more)

La webzine e community di designer LOUNGE72 - Design portal & ezine sta regalando il calendario 2007 in formato PDF. Dodici mesi interpretati da dodici differenti artisti che in un modo o nell’altro sono legati al portale tedesco: ‘’Twelve months. Twelve artist. One unique calendar representing contemporary global design scene'’.

From Typies blog, how to choose a correct text typography design in different cases.

Feed Icons - Home of the standard web feed icon. Originally designed by Mozilla Foundation for the Firefox browser. Adapted by Microsoft. Vector version reproduced by Matt Brett (mattbrett.com), December 19, 2005.

ByIRIS Design how to create Web 2.0 styled button using Adobe Photoshop CS2.

The Tango Desktop Project exists to help create a consistent graphical user interface experience for free and Open Source software.

For all those who’ve been good this year…
by Brand Spanking New

Los Angeles I’m Yours - A Tower of Babel fable extracted and placed in the context of Los Angeles. E’ un capolavoro di 2 minuti e 38 secondi quello creato dal motion designer Daniel Oeffinger. Il video clip, sostenuto dall’eccelente musica dei Decemberists, è scaricabile da Small Carrot ‘’a site made for mobile entertainment - like iPods, PSPs and cell phones. Sul sito dell’autore, il filmato nelle sue dimensioni originali

“The Daily Slurp is simply a daily dose of sites to check out. The list is fixed for each day, so a once a day check will do. We will be listing sites that are aesthetically pleasing for one reason or another, it is all about visual appeal. The listing is not limited in the type of sites, it can be flash, css, or even table based if it looks nice. The Daily Slurp is designed to provide the fastest way possible to survey freshly designed web sites on the web”.