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Featured Picture: Carabiner in Black & White

The Chipper

  • Versions, the Mac Subversion Client, is finally out. As Dave Simon stated, the ultimate in vaporware is no more.
  • Seth Godin: The Media, Selling The Drama.
  • Glarkware has a badass Cylon toaster shirt for sale. WANT!
  • OS Form Elements: Layered PSDs for the form elements of 3 major browsers. Helpful for mockups. (via JSM)
  • Mondrianum: OS X Color Picker, and Kuler swatch-downloader thingamabob. (via Oxton)
  • This is How We Do. Frank Chimero's process for incorporating hand-drawn style into vector illustrations.

October 2007 Archives

Posted by Tom at 10.15.07
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Andy Rutledge gives us a design podcast that has been sorely needed. Well spoken, relevant, and on-topic, it's something designers old and new alike can sink their teeth into. It doesn't hurt that Andy's spoken voice is as refined and clear as his written voice.

The Design View Show

Posted by Tom at 10.12.07
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A call to arms: OK, so it's not the noblest cause, but why is Safari still the bastard child of browsers in terms of web app support? WebKit is indeed superior in terms of standards compliance than most other browsers and it's now available on Windows, and of course the iPhone. Yet I still have so many issues with major sites.