design – Page 13 – Alasdair Watson

Bookmarks for April 10, 2008

apophenia: musing about social networks and g/local cultures
I feel like I know almost no-one round where I live, but still: I shop regularly at my local butcher. A couple of my local cafe’s recognise me when I come in. I like that, and I’d hate to live in the world described here.

Tags: socialnetworking, suburbia
960 Grid System
Handy set of tools for producing grad based designs. I particularly like the fact that there’s both an OmniGraffle template and an HTML demo. This is going to make going from wireframe to mockup about 70 times faster.

Tags: design, framework, tools, css, layout, grid
khîm photo » monolit
Nice, minimalist photoblog theme. Might use it as a start point for sprucing up my portfolio site, to bring it more into line with the design of my other sites.

Tags: wordpress, theme, photoblog

Britannia, Borough, London, SE1 3RU- beerintheevening.com
Must pop down and check this pub out in the next week or so. My birthday is coming up (keep March the 22nd free if you can folks) and I hear this a rather nice whisky bar, so if it’s half decent, I’ll probably be drinking there.

Tags: pub, whisky
Noisy Decent Graphics: Your company’s app
So true. So painfully, painfully true.

Tags: design, interface

A Guide to Web Typography | i love typography, the typography blog
Out to be require reading for anyone who is designing a website, be they professional or amateur. The same rules apply to corporate sites as they do to your custom blog layout, you know…

Tags: design, web, typography
Danah Boyd (and Lawrence Lessig and Esther Dyson) join Livejournal Advisory Board
Well, this is sounds like it can only be a good thing. LJ’s new owners will be getting input from some very very smart people to help them balance the needs of the business and the needs of users.

Tags: livejournal, socialnetworking
Preorder Tree Traversal
A technique for structuring parent-child data in a database that I hadn’t run across before and is much more elegant that the methods I’ve used in the past. This will change my approach to certain kinds of data. (The rest of you can wake up now.)

Tags: php, database, development, mysql, hierarchical
MySQL :: Managing Hierarchical Data in MySQL
More stuff about managing hierachical data as infinitely nestable sets. Look, I make an effort to keep too much of this stuff out of this linkblog, but you’re going to have to live with it once in a while, ok?

Tags: database, howto, mysql, hierarchical, tree

Typographic Posters
These are almost all awesome, and I want most of them on my walls.

Tags: design, typography, posters
LimerickDB: Top 150
On the back of weekend conversation
I present for your delectation
A bunch of limericks, quite nerdy
Some of them short, some wordy
But all of them worth the quotation.

Tags: humour, limericks

Cosmic scale
An animated gif showing a progesssion in size of various celestial bodies, starting with the moon, and ending with the largest known star. Awesome, in the most literal sense.

Tags: science, as
Magnus Handwriting Font
You know how I said I was happy with the look of Black Ink? I lied. I’m happy for values of “tweaked off the shelf”. I’m working on my own completely custom design, and I will be using this font in the new look one.

Tags: design

Movement (Schulze & Webb)
S&W talk about movement as a metaphor for the web, and in the process, introduce a means of syndicating form-type actions via a modified RSS protocol they’re calling Snap. Potentially a huge change in the way people will interact with websites, here.

Tags: design, internet, webdev, interaction
What makes a great portrait?
A number of big name photographers answer the question. I’ve only skimmed this right now, because I’m barely awake, but it looks interesing enough to come back to when I can get more then 2 neurons to fire at once.

Tags: photography, essay