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We get ripped off a lot. I often spot a button image that’s been repurposed, or a layout that’s just a little bit too inspired by a previous design we’ve done. Generally, we find it really flattering and have a good laugh - if nothing else, it makes us feel that we’re probably doing something right if people are so eager to plagiarize. But earlier today a friend linked me to Mozilla’s new JetPack design and my jaw dropped.
The worst part: Mozilla contacted Metalab about this, asking for a proposal, months ago and decided not to pursue the project.
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The Colosseo Letterpress poster is Cameron Moll’s latest, and most ambitious, poster design:
…The artwork was handcrafted character by character, totaling roughly 250 hours of work from start to finish. Characters from the Goudy Trajan and Bembo Pro typefaces form the Coliseum (or Colosseum), also known as today as Colosseo (Italian) and originally known as Amphitheatrum Flavium (Latin).
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I love it. I was actually a part of the beta and didn’t like the thought of paying, but I recently revisited the service and I have to say: $25 a year for access to a great selection of fonts and easy management web app is a steal.
My only complaint is that I can’t actually design with the fonts in Photoshop, as you’re not provided any sort of download.
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“The truth is that most everyone has plenty of ideas that could work out to be great businesses. The kicker is most often the right execution, that they’d be responsible for anyway, at the right time, which is almost impossible to predict. The value of The Perfect Idea is very small indeed.”
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Shape My Language, a beautiful typographic exhibition by Bruno Maag: The set-up of the exhibition is surprising to say the least. Long streams of clear plastic cards hang from the ceiling, engulfing the gallery visitors in a typographic mist.
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Mozilla borrows from WebKit to build fast new JS engine:
In summary: TraceMonkey wasn’t cuttin’ it.
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matthewb: The Panic Status Board by Cabel, Steve and Neven. WebKit-powered via AJAX and various APIs, displayed full-screen in Chrome running on a Samsung professional display. Fantastic.
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mrgan: The Panic Status Board - one of the things I’ve been working on lately. Read Cabel’s writeup! This is a thing of pure beauty. We’re already seeing how we can do something similar at Ext.
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Patrick Patience has posted a fantastic little summary of jailbreaking hacks over at Smoking Apples. He’s got some gorgeous themes and extensions working together, complete with links and extended info—it’s definitely worth taking a look.
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How to present designs to a client:
Gavin Elliott reviews the ways to present designs to a client (browser comp, flat, via a service, etc.) but then also goes a step further by interviewing several leading designers like Tim Van Damme and Sam Brown.
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“The Cooper Residence” by architect Randy Weinstein is completely stunning. (via Contemporist)
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Tumblr is now testing “Pages”: You can now add static pages to your blog, with a few very useful options. Head to your blog’s Customize page and click the “Pages” menu to get started. There are currently three types of Pages you can create: Standard Layout. Create a simple page with a title and body using your current theme. Custom Layout. Create a page with a completely separate layout. Redirect. Forward a route to a page on another domain. Useful for maintaining links when moving your domain name over to Tumblr. Developers: Check out the Theme Docs for instructions on implementing the new {block:Pages} tag. Once again, Tumblr’s brought the platform to a whole new level. Can’t wait to test it out.
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Loving this conspiracy theory diagram from Brand New, covering the Missile Defense Agency identity. Yes, for those who are unaware, the new logo has received some criticism: A slew of online publications are genuinely upset that the MDA logo looks like a combination of the Obama ‘08 campaign logo and the star and crescent moon symbol of Islam. Others have thrown in the Iranian Space Agency logo and the Soviet Union’s hammer and sickle flag, all as part of a series of codes that determine the agenda of the Obama administration. I threw in the Boeing logo just for kicks — hey, someone has failed to point out a corporate villain in all of this — and I also added perhaps the biggest oversight by the media, the use of Trajan. Cue Twilight Zone theme song.
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The “Deep” iPhone theme, well photographed by William Hook.
