Design City: Paris

Design Taxi is running a great little focus feature around Design in Paris. The article includes interviews with Parisian designers, hot spots around Paris, and featured works.

Ah, Paris, city of lovers, bohemians, artists, designers and all things that is beautiful in this world. Legions of fans and devotees swear by the city designed for romance and the finer aspects of life, as the extraordinary amount of literature, design, art and music emanating from the city bears testament to.

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Arrrrr Pirate Packaging

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Love love LOVE these pirate themed products and packaging!

Recently, 826 Valencia enlisted the help of San Fransisco design firm, office, to develop the store’s new identity along with about 50 new products. The results are fabulously fun and creative. All proceeds go directly to benefit 826 Valencia’s writing programs

via The Dieline

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Free Font: FF Reminga Bold Italic

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Fontshop is offering another great font for free!

The all-new OpenType FF Reminga is an improved version of an underused FontFont classic. Try the bold italic for free.

Download FF Reminga Bold Italic

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Below the Fold: Why Scrolling Isn’t A Bad Thing

Zach Dunn from Cazzu Media has written an article on why having to scroll is not the end of the world.

I want a website. It will be cutting edge visually impressive. It will have a wealth of information available. All of our brochures, a full directory of employees, and a shopping cart. I don’t want it the user to have to scroll all over the place though!

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160+ RSS Feeds of Designers and Developers

If you’re looking to add to your RSS feeds then head over to Spyre Studio’s list of 160+ RSS feeds for web designers and developers.

Of course you can’t possibly check all those feeds everyday but a quick scan in your feed reader and you should be good!

Via: Twitter

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Free Font: Whiteboard Modern

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Another free font from BitBox: Whiteboard Modern.

Whiteboard Modern was hand drawn, but created entirely with a Wacom tablet and Illustrator.

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The Typographic Scale

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Alexander Charchar writes a great article over at Retinart about the Typographic Scale.

A list of numbers that make it easier to set type. But why these numbers? What relationships do they hold with one another? Is there some mythical secret held by the casters of the fonts of old? Why is it that when you combine 8, 10, 14 and 36 points of height something beautiful happens?

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Uncoverr – Design & Development Book Reviews

Creattica reader Lachy Groom sent us a great link to Uncoverr, a site for reviewing and talking about web design and development books.

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Rewriting Twitter for Web Best Practices

Web technologist Niall Kennedy undertook the big job of rewriting twitter.com to incorporate modern front-end programming best practices. You can check out the whole project here.

The new web front-end on TwitterFE.com features localized templates, expressive markup, distinct URL structures, integrated site search, geo-distributed dynamic and static servers, and more available features than Twitter.com.

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The First 90 Days with a Nikon D90 – Short Film

Photographer Adam Paul took over 3,200 photos with his Nikon D90 in the first 90 Days and decided to put it all together in time-lapse / stop motion short film.

What inspired me most was when I watched his film, it appeared as though he had the entire stop-motion and plot in mind while he was shooting. I asked him and he said he just put them together and put music over it. I was floored. And then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I had to try it with my 90D90 idea and sure enough, instant masterpiece.

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