When redblackbrown readers aren’t contemplating rebuilding their houses chances are they are in the thick of a website redesign. W3C Sites is a collection of sites that conform to W3C HTML standards. What’s cool is the sizable and searchable gallery. Not only can you search by discipline but also by country, client type and even by web standard (eg. valid html 4.01 vs. valid xhtml 1.1). It is really cool to see examples from other countries that you would not normally stumble upon. Got a compliant site of your own? You can submit it.
Heard of the Slow Food Movement? Well this is sort of like that but is a growing collective that believes the places we call home should restore us, uplift and renew our spirits and seek harmony with the environment and our neighbors. Check out Slow Home for both philosophy and examples of the goals put into practice. As designers we know the space we work in impacts our creativity, our productivity, etc. Hopefully this movement will help turn the development and construction industries from the disastrous path they are on. You can help by signing the declaration and learning more about how to design space that helps you design.
Need to do some color correction or crop a photo but don’t have photoshop on your computer? No problem, just fire up Photoshop Express. Adobe recently launched a beta version of Photoshop online. No installation, no licensing, it’s free.
It’s not as good as the real thing, but in a pinch, it’s not bad.
(a few seconds of work.)
Ok, I’ll admit it. Sometimes I’m lazy. Really lazy. Like way too lazy to open Illustrator and mess with shapes and pen tools. I mean really, sometimes you just need to cheat and now that I’ve discovered Vector Magic, I can cheat so much easier when I need to vectorize something quickly.
I love that there are university geeks out there trying to make my life easier. Now I can get in an extra game of wii bowling instead of dealing with those pesky paths.
Thank you Stanford.