Non-format’s portfolio is sleek, well balanced and experienced in photography, design, type and everything in between. The company is located in Minnesota and London and if you have an hour or two to spend looking at their gorgeous showcase, I’d take the time to do it. It’s truly stunning.
Stefan Bucher’s Daily Monster always helps to remind me to have fun with art and especially my illustrations. His series, now available in books and merchandise forms, are appealing, unique and completely Stefan.
FaceOut Books features a different book cover/title every Monday, in which the designer discusses their process, failures, initial designs, and final solution to their book-jacket problem. It’s so neat to see the secret evolution of the cover before it hits the shelves—the concepts that would have sat pressed in a book somewhere—given new life and attention.
Apple has released Safari 4 beta, and it looks like a significant change over the previous version. Apple has included a Top Sites page which will recognize your most-viewed pages and display them in an easy-to-get-to panel (this has already been done in Opera and Chrome).
Apple has also included Cover Flow for viewing history and bookmarks, they have moved Tabs to the top of the page, and what looks to be promising Developer Tools which is sorely needed. More screenshots inside… Continue Reading…
Bobby Solomon started an on-going project called The Desktop Wallpaper Project and has been posting new desktops every Wednesday for quite some time now. He started the project by writing to all of his favorite artists and designers and asking them to contribute a wallpaper. What he has now is an amazing collection of well-designed and clever backgrounds formated for any screen size and even the iphone. Check out his blog, Kitsune Noir, for the wallpaper project, downloadable mixtapes and other fun stuff.
One example of the hilarious blog full of one man’s approval from his young daughter and her critiques on his work. More here
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