#design

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GDS design principles
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https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples

The guiding design principles behind the current UK government's digital strategy. Good sold work.

alasdairw Apr 11, 2012

http://maps.stamen.com/watercolor/#11/51.4742/-0.1...

Stamen design have used OpenStreetMap data to produce full zoomable maps that look like they've been...

alasdairw Mar 22, 2012

http://globalmoxie.com/blog/new-ipad-image-sizes.s...

Food for thought as regards serving images to the iPad3. And, indeed, any similarly hi-res display....

alasdairw Mar 13, 2012

http://interconnected.org/home/2012/03/08/air_quot...

Matt Webb on products - what a product is, and how they're changing.

alasdairw Mar 08, 2012

http://www.htmlandcssbook.com/

If anyone I know is looking to learn HTML and CSS, or even just improve a shaky grasp of it, then I...

alasdairw Feb 07, 2012

http://iotic.com/averia/

This is actually a really really beautiful font. Lovely work.

alasdairw Feb 03, 2012

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Movies-From-An-Alte...

Movie posters, re-imagined as films from an earlier era. Don't worry if that's not terribly clear,...

alasdairw Jan 17, 2012

http://skandolous.tumblr.com/post/1246723017/ink-c...

This is really, really beautiful, and I would pay a moderate sum of money to have on hanging on my w...

alasdairw Jan 06, 2012

http://camendesign.com/plugin_without

Look seriously, if you're building a website, and thinking "Hey, I know, we'll do this bit with a pl...

alasdairw Nov 11, 2011

http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInter...

This is utterly brilliant. It very neatly skewers several big flaws in that Microsoft vision-of-the-...

alasdairw Nov 09, 2011

http://worrydream.com/Tangle/

This opens up all sorts of possibilities for page design...

alasdairw Oct 24, 2011

http://www.flickr.com/photos/moritzresl/sets/72157...

This guy has created the "average font" by layering the low-opacity version of ever version of each...

alasdairw Sep 23, 2011