Anatomy of a Typeface

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How 20 popular websites looked when they launched

Thanks to the waybackmachine internet archive, telegraph.co.uk shows us how some of the Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 pioneers looked in their earliest incarnations.

101 Apps for Your Web App Startup Toolbox

From mind mapping, design and development to collaboration, project tracking and accounting; this roundup of 101 fantastic web apps for startups and businesses are sure to reduce operating costs and increase both productivity and efficiency.

Bizarre Websites On Which You Can Kill Time With Style

Julia May at smashingmagazine post a collection of amusing websites that, by combining unconventional (and sometimes bizarre) ideas and clever JavaScript and Flash effects, will entice you to play on them for an embarrassing long time.

Man as Industrial Palace

Der Mensch als Industriepalast [Man as Industrial Palace] by Henning Lederer. A preview clip of an animated and interactive application based on the poster by Fritz Kahn: Der Mensch als Industriepalast

Looking into the Past With an IPhone App!

The Museum of London has just launched an iPhone app that makes use of its extensive art and photographic collections as well as geo tagging and Google Maps to guide users around London where, via the iPhone screen, you can look into the past!

Sherwin Williams Paint Chips

The mighty Buck creates a fantastic world made entirely of Sherwin Williams’s paint chips.

What type are you?

What type are you? from Pentagram. (I am plastica)

The latest version of the LittleDog Robot

LittleDog Robot is created by the University of Southern California. It is completely autonomous and trained by machine learning algorithms.

After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all

The great American writer left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, which is now.

Introducing Google TV

Combining TV with the Internet: Introducing Google TV. Google TV is a new experience made for television that combines the TV you know and love with the freedom and power of the Internet.

pantone hotel

The pantone hotel invites you to experience the city of Brussels through a lens of color and a spectrum of comforts. From the moment you arrive, our “hotel of colors” will awaken your senses to an array of delights and playful surprises.

18 Great Examples of Sketched UI Wireframes and Mockups

Henry Jones at webdesignledger collected 18 great examples of sketched UI wireframes and mockups. A lot of these look so good that you may be inspired to start your next project with a sketch.

Google Font Directory

The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers.

Simone Bingemer

Simone Bingemer is a realist pastel painter and lives and works in Cologne, Germany.

Sh*t My Kids Ruined

or otherwise made filthy, distasteful, gross or painful. They want to know about the sh*t your kids ruined. Perhaps your couch? Your TV? Your marriage? Your dreams? CONTRIBUTE. It's therapeutic.

sloth orphanage

Cuteness overload, The Aviaros del Caribe sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica - the world's only sloth orphanage. Baby 2 and 3 toed sloths, whose mother's have either been run over or zapped by power lines are brought to the sanctuary and looked after by Judy Arroyo.

projekktor

projekktor is an open source htm5 video player. It solves cross browser and compatibility issues, adds some eye candy to the native players and provides useful non standard features. Free for commercial and non-commercial use (GPL license).

404 page

A 404 page is a page that shows up when user tries to browse the page that doesn’t seems to exist anymore – link may be broken, moved, or even it has never existed and never will.

25 Best Icon Sets for Application Design

webdesignsoul has compiled the ultimate list of icons for building web applications.

50 Most Extraordinary Churches of the World

boredpanda.com takes a look at 50 extraordinary churches of the world, some of the most wonderful buildings on earth.

Introduction to iPhone SDK Development

tutsplus.com takes a look at development with the iPhone SDK. You can learn information about the iPhone platform, how to setup and configure your development environment, and the steps necessary to create a simple fortune cookie application!

Thomas Fluharty

Thomas Fluharty's work has appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, The Weekly Standard, U.S. News & World Report and the Village Voice.

keep-tube.com

Now you can download embedded youtube videos, youtube videos in your search results, and videos from all supported websites with a single click!

Some sick animatronics

Some sick animatronics from John Nolan Films Studio in London.

Playboy is going 3D

In an effort to bolster low readership, the June edition of Playboy, on newsstands this week, will feature centerfold Hope Dworaczyk in good old fashioned blue and red (anaglyph) 3D.

Nissan Qashqai - Urban Bowling

Kind of a strange commercial, but what is more fun than watching an avalanche of bowling balls down a street. Nissan Qashqai, Urban Bowling commercial.

Infographics

The infographic (short for information graphic) has become a mainstream fixture and make complicated subjects easy to understand. Freelancereview.net has a compilation of some very creative ones.

An Homage to the Late, Great Frank Frazetta (1928-2010)

Frank Frazetta (February 9, 1928 – May 10, 2010[1]) was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, record-album covers, and other media. He died on May 10th at the age of 82.

Google Chrome Speed Tests

Excellent viral video for Google Chrome Speed Tests as they test the browser through a series of experiments.

Tyler Jacobson

California illustrator Tyler Jacobson recently graduated from Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and has embarked on a career as an illustrator, with an eye to working as a concept artist for the film and gaming industries.

Titan

Titan is an Open Source Javascript Web Framework. It is built on jQuery, making it the easiest, smallest, and most liberating Javascript Web Framework to work with.

Android App Developers GUI Kits, Icons, Fonts and Tools

Speckyboy has an excellent post to help streamline your app design and development, with a fairly comprehensive collection of Android GUI kits, icons, fonts, .psds and tools, that will allow you to focus on developing rather than having to design everything from scratch.

20 Best Photo Editing Software For Free Download

Purchase of photo editing softwares is not easy for every one so, savedelete.com came up with a list of 20 best and useful softwares to edit photos without spending a penny.

Leslie Buck

If you’ve ever been to New York City, there’s a good chance you’ve come across the Anthora coffee cup designed by Leslie Buck

50 Helpful Typography Tools And Resources

To help you improve the typography in your designs, smashingmagazine is presenting tools and resources related to typography to learn the fundamentals of typography, find out how to combine fonts and know what to keep in mind when choosing a typeface.

The Pentagram Papers

Each year, influential design bureau Pentagram produces a pocket-sized publication on a curious, entertaining, or provocative idea or point of view that particularly enthrals its partners.

toyota swagger wagon

The world of advertising at its finest, from the folks at Saatchi & Saatchi, the toyota swagger wagon

Top 25 Open Source Project Management Apps

If you are a project manager or if you plan to become one — or even if you cannot manage your personal day-to-day tasks — you might require some help from a software system designed to simplify and streamline any project or multiple projects. To help you keep your projects within budget, mastersinprojectmanagement.com gathered a list of the top 25 Open Source project management apps on the market now.

Google Adds App Store for Analytics

Today, Google is giving users even more tools for finding and understanding their web stats. The company has just announced they’re opening a full App Gallery for Google Analytics.

PNG vs JPG: 6 simple lessons

If you wanted to know what the difference is between PNG and JPGs, and when to use them, turnkeylinux gives you the skinny.

14th Annual Webby Awards Nominees & Winners:

The Webby Awards presents two honors in every category -- The Webby Award and The People's Voice Award -- in each of its four entry types: Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video and Mobile Web. Members of The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences select the nominees for both awards in each category, as well as the winners of the Webby Awards.

Ornate Patterns and Textures

Naldzgraphics is showcasing collections of Ornate Patterns and Textures. They have gathered 30 ornament-inspired patterns that will suite your designs and websites well.

100 Years of Movie Title Stills

Take a look at this showcase of movie title stills from the last 100 years.

We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint

Elisabeth Bumiller has an amusing, yet serious, article in the New York Times about PowerPoint, the presentation tool which “has crept into the daily lives of military commanders and reached the level of near obsession.”

Pencil vs. Camera

Pencil vs. Camera is project by Belgian painter, illustrator, caricaturist and photographer Ben Heine, in which he draws part of a scene, usually in a fanciful interpretation of it, and then takes a photograph of the drawing held up against the original scene or photograph.

Vector World Maps

High quality vector World maps collection for your bookmarks from speckyboy.