Garden Variety
Oh, you simply have to love the Bugs version of CSS Zen Garden. An absolute delight. (Table Layout Assassination is not half bad either.)
Top Picks on myShuffle
1. Kiki-riri-boom / Shaft
2. Jesse / Mother Earth
3. New Forms / Roni Size Reprazent feat. Bahamadia
4. The Jackal / Ronny Jordan
5. Take The L Train (To 8 Ave.) / Brooklyn Funk Essentials
Meta writings: Transmission
Not exactly new, I know. Too obvious with the Wallpaper-slash-Wired pedigree, too hype-prone. But still. I was hooked on Hari Kunzru’s Transmission from the opening line. “It was a simple message.” Stuff like that gets me, every time...
Found Stuff
There’s a bunch of nice free (and commercial) fonts, Photoshop brushes and other cool stuff to be found on sites like Fontleech, Misprintedtype, Maniackers and Cape-Arcona.
(Via Airbag)
Web Standards vs. WYSIWYG
There are a bunch of us who use so called WYSIWYG editors for our web design stuff. Some use overblown texteditors like Macromedia Dreamweaver or Adobe GoLive, while others...
Blasted, blasted Canon
I bought a new digiCam not long ago, a Canon EOS 300D, which I like. So guess how happee I was to hear about the all new, 8 megapixel 350D...
Wot– No Updates?
Posted April 13, 2005
I’ve been busy. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. As I’m sure everyone knows by now, I am a bread-and-butter designer. But we are busy too, at times. So, I haven’t updated the site in a while.
One of the things I’ve done in the meantime is a complete redesign of a web site run by a friend and his brother, including a new identity, mark, and some print stuff. See details in the showroom.
Boktipset*
The boktips of the ...month?, quarter?, whatever... is a long time favourite of mine: “Number 9 Dream”, by Hong Kong-based British author David Mitchell. Beautifully written, highly imaginative story of an incurable Romantic lost in the maze of Tokyo. Go read! Also, check out “Ghost Written” by the same author.
*) Boktipset is Swedish and means Book Recommendation. There’s a specific tune attached to the word that all Swedes raised in the 70s and 80s know, which should be hummed when reading the recommendation, for full effect. Haven’t found it anywhere though...
annoying safari Changes
As some will already know (and others will find out), there are a few minor annoying changes in the new version of Apple browser Safari – most notably the shortcut for View Source. Used to be alt-Apple-V. In the new version it’s alt-apple-U. Almost the same as Mozilla’s apple-U, but not quite. So why change? bah...
Another annoying change is the Save feature when you control-click an image, a file link or similar on a web page (in Winduh-talk it’s the equivalent of Save as Source). I might be the only one using this feature, I dunno, but I’ve grown used to it because then I know where the files I save or download end up in my folder structure, rather than it being saved to a generic place on my computer, say the Desktop, and me having to physically relocate it after the deed. Well, the change to Safari v3 means just that. Control-clicking an image link for example (the only thing I’ve tried so far) brings up the familiar dialogue window... except now we can only choose between a rock and a hard place, i.e to save file to the Desktop or to copy the file. Don’t want to do either, I want to choose my save location. So from now on I’ll have to use cmd-S which I never do normally. Damn Apple! ;D