Tightrope by Janelle Monae
Finally got around to checking out the video posted by Joshua and can confirm that this is probably a good addition to your summer of 2010 music rotation.
Daily Drop Cap
I feel like I’ve posted about Jessica Hische’s work before but I can find it anywhere. Either way, her Daily Drop Cap was already a pretty awesome experiment on her part to push her illustration skills and spread the word but she upped the stakes yesterday with some awesome letter-pressed business cards to accompany.
Today’s drop cap is probably one of my favorites:
And the new business cards: (more…)
I Code in Tables
There’s no shortage of material in the web-ranks that points to best-use practices of coding a website in a proper, semantic way. Semantic, basically meaning the idea that your content should be separate from the way it is presented to the computers that display your work. Creating a website with logical semantic code, often means that your website fares better in a number of areas:
- Pages have the ability to be far more flexible for each device that accesses them
- Page load times are often shorter with well-written code
- Search engines — like Google — mention well-written code in their documentation of ways to rank higher in their results
- Code-nazi’s sleep better when you abide by the rules written in their books and they don’t call you out in the blogosphere
Disclaimer: I am all for best-practices in everything I produce. Whether in design or development, I try to always take the path of least resistance but not at the expense of cutting corners. I prefer to develop my sites with semantic HTML.
A Fashionable Thursday v11
This might seem like a bit of a cop-out, but sartorially, you will learn heaps more about style from JFK than I could ever teach. Brilliant.
How to Dress Like: John F. Kennedy
(via Debonair Magazine)
I’ve been remiss
By post date, I can see that it’s been a little while since I’ve dropped any knowledge on my readers. Probably best since my knowledge is always lacking in some area or another. Remedied.
Dot-comrade Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain finally stepped forth with a project we chatted about in March at SXSW for Steinway & Sons piano. Take the time now to check out this piece of phenomenal web-work (as are all of his designs) today.
Thankfully, Steinway & Sons has realized the value Jesse brings and has hired him on to produce an iPhone product as well. You can check out the previews on Dribbble: 31Three / Steinway Metronome