I’d been hearing people talk about the opening movie for the new Beatles Rockband for a few days now so I thought I would check it out. It’s very well done and quite entertaining. If you’ve got some time to spare I’d give a once through.
Five Second Test–A quick way to check the immediate usability of your site. Either upload your own image or test others. Quite addicting. 90% of Everything–A nice usability blog. I love their dilbert cartoon collection. Wolfram Alpha–Need an answer to a mathmatical or scientific question, here’s your source. FactCheck.org–Want to check the facts behind a [...]
A new week, a new batch of sites. Your Brain on Design—A lovely design blog. WattzOn—A site that helps you measure and track your personal energy consumption. The Colossal Squid–Build your very on interactive squid. Design Super Hero–An interesting design blog. This post has some wonderfully colorful wallpapers. Share Some Candy–A nice collection of artwork/furniture/objects, [...]
After a hiatus of a couple of weeks the list has returned. This week’s list has some goodies. Mighty Haus–A simple site with cool items for you house. http://mightyhaus.com/ News Map–An interesting way to view the news. Color coded layout that changes over time based on article popularity. http://newsmap.jp/ Maira Kalman–The blog of artist Maria [...]
Only 5 new sites this week folks. What can I say, it was a slow web week for me. Postmodernbarney.com—An odd site, but this post in particular is pretty interesting–Uncomfortable Plot Summaries. http://www.postmodernbarney.com/2009/04/uncomfortable-plot-summaries/ Look at this fucking hipster—The name pretty much says it all. http://lookatthisfuckinghipster.tumblr.com/ Doodlers Anonymous—A website that features a collection of illustrators whose [...]
Here are my top sites for the week. Prettify–A site with lots of high quality wallpapers and icons. http://prettify.tumblr.com/ Antrepo–The site of a design collective. The most recent post asks what color is the internet. It’s pretty interesting. http://www.a2591.com/ Synaptic Stimuli–The name pretty much sums it up–a site with some crazy ass and beautiful imagery. [...]
A new week, a new set of links. 1) 20 x 200–New art weekly, always affordable, though quick to sell out. www.20×200.com 2) Forgotten Chicago–A small site that gives info about Chicago’s disappearing historic architecture. Pretty interesting and not just because I went to the Michael Reese campus the other day. forgottenchicago.com 3) Hugs for [...]
One of these days I’ll actually write a real post, but for now I’ve got another list of websites. 1) The Moment Blog–Nice blog on art, design, fashion, travel etc. themoment.blogs.nytimes.com 2) Scatter/Gather–a very interesting blog about content strategy, a topic I need and want to learn more about. scattergather.razorfish.com 3) Your Logo Makes Me [...]
1) Desktop Wallpaper Project—A great project by Kitsune Noir. Every Wed a new wallpaper, available for download in multiple formats, is added to the site. There are some really beautiful designs. kitsunenoir.com/blog/dwp 2) Web Designer Depot—This site is a great reference for any web designer, but this post specifically is fantastic. Comics for web designers, [...]
Another week, another list of links. 1. SXSW, A Mix—NPR has put together a mix of 100 songs by artists who will be at this year’s SXSW. There is some really great music here. www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101495094 2. AppCraver—Have an iPhone or iPod Touch? Want reviews of the latest and best apps? Then this is the site [...]
