November 2010
6 posts
Jeffrey Zeldman on awards →
The day after winning three awards at the .net Awards 2010, Zeldman writes:
Our industry needs real design discussion, peer review, and recognition. I believe in the .net Awards, as their partnership with A List Apart attests. They are the best our industry has.
They are. I just think they’re not good enough. Then Zeldman continues talking to his friend who thinks he should not accept...
Smashing Magazine, Blog of the Year 2010 →
The .net Magazine Awards 2010 ceremony was held this evening in London, and Smashing Magazine took the prize for Blog of the Year. There’s no better way to say it: What a joke.
Let me recall what I wrote before about the .net Awards:
The .net Awards aren’t paying enough respect to the amazing work of web professionals. What’s interesting is that they could really be celebrating the...
“The” Project →
An interesting niche blog:
Wordmarks from a private stock of predigital lettering scoured from low resolution archives, personally converted to bezier outlines by Robb for use by today’s graphic designers who appreciate the wonky shapes of yesteryear.
Some of the wordmarks are particularly lovely, like the one used in the ad for 1935’s “The Bride of Frankenstein”. The lettering for...
Fifty and Fifty →
Fifty and Fifty is a collective, curated project where fifty individual designers are invited to represent their home state by illustrating it’s state motto.
Contributors include Aaron Draplin, Bobby McKenna and Jessica Hische. Looks promising.
Wings →
Coudal Partners made a video of the process behind Raven’s Wing, the latest release of their COLORS series of Field Notes. On the outside it’s a just a beautiful black memo book. But I highly suggest you watch the video and notice the great care that everyone puts into this process, the old machinery that embosses the covers or the workers that manually wrap the 3-Packs with a...
On the taste of our community and the .net Awards
A List Apart, Abduzeedo, Blog.SpoonGraphics, Boagworld, CSS-Tricks, HTML5 Doctor, Smashing Magazine, Soh Tanaka’s Blog, ThinkVitamin, Tuts+ Network. If you’re part of the Web Design and Development communities, these may sound familiar — they were the nominees in the “Blog of the Year” category of the 2010 edition of the .net Awards.
After seeing this list I immediately thought “Seriously?...