This CSS gallery is a great resource for various CSS experiments. The no Javascript image gallery is amazing. It also has a no flicker image replacement technique. Anyway, check it out.

Very very nice indeed.

I am a big advocate of Paper Prototyping although it seems the opportunities to use the methodology are few and far between. The traditional arguements against it are that it adds cost and time to the planning stage of a projects. Because of that, it can be seen as an expensive exercise, even though it eventually saves money and time on the flipside of the project during the development stage. It is also perceived as more closely tied to the traditional waterfall effect because of how much work is required before you can start coding and building with the computer. In the arguements of what is waterfall and what is agile, I would argue that Paper Prototyping is the most agile of processes because it solves so many issues up front in the planning stage, is highly iterative, and involves the team in a highly colaborative exercise. Joel On Software had an article a few years ago praising this methodology. So the question is, “Is Paper Prototyping considered part of software development, or something you do before you start developing software?”

So. I spent part of yesterday looking for tutorials on illustrating 3 dimensional objects in illustrator. Perhaps it isn’t the best or the quickest app for doing so, but I want to use an illustration of a truck in my next project. At any rate, I ran into this tutorial this morning through the MAKE blog.

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Ellen Lupton & Abbott Miller are design professors at Maryland Institute College of Art (the school I went to). Abbot is also a partner at Pentagram. At DesignWritingResearch.org you can find some pretty amazing advice, teaching resources, and essays.

Typography is the Interface of Writing is a really interesting essay about typography, language, deconstructivism… I especially like the idea that ” as an intellectual technology, alphabetic writing can be compared to photography: it is an automatic record of the surface of language.” It is interesting to consider that typography is the something more than just the aesthetic representation of text. That its existence gives text a life beyond transcription or copy. Speech /Writing > Natual/Artificial > Original/Copy > Intuitive/Learned > Mind/Body. Instead of one being in opposition they are integral to eachother.

If “style” is a grammar of form-making associated with a particular historical and cultural situation, then perhaps “attitude” is the unarticulated, just out-of-focus background for the specificities of style.

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I’m sure the BaseCamp one is around the corner, but this widget is pretty slick.

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Here is an interesting flash piece I found. It’s basically about a japanese ISP trying to attract new customers. It feels more like a video installation. I do like the narrative they explore. Internal conflict at a dinner table juxtaposed with everyday table conversation. Pretty cool.

by Strongbad Make sure to view Strongbad’s website when he’s finished. Funny stuff.