Voices That Matter Web Design Conference – Apr 27-30 San Fran

For designers in the San Fransisco Bay Area, you may be interested in attending the upcoming Voices That Matter Web Design Conference this April 27 – 30.

At the Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference, the leading authors and practitioners in the Web design community will inspire, entertain, and train you in all the things you know you’ve been needing to learn—and even a few you didn’t—from CSS, Ajax, and Web standards, to SEO, Web usability, interface design and more.

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Encouraged To Create

Interesting project by Emma Smart. She took most of the elements in a typical design studio and turned them into crayons! Thats right, the mouse, computer tower, calculator, lamp – all crayons. This project was done to encourage designers to create away from the computer. Good way to remind ourselves eh?

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Spreadtweet

Hands down this is the best twitter client – Spreadtweet by Elliott Kember. Why? It looks like excel – so you can hide your tweeting habit from your boss. Although I don’t think this would really work for designers. How often do we touch excel? haha.

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Diggbar

So everyone has been complaining lately about the new Diggbar, how to get rid of it, how its the end of the world.  If the diggbar has bothered you then you will ove this comic by Brad Colbow.

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Simple Sanity-Saving Tip for All Timeline-Based Flash Projects

Jay from Warm Forest has put together some quick code to save you some hair pulling when your designing animations in Flash. Check out Simple Sanity-Saving Tip for All Timeline-Based Flash Projects.

The solution is simple but I can almost guarantee that once you use this trick you will start using it every single time you are working with a timeline. The trick is to add keyboard arrow controls to the movie.

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40+ Beautiful Patterns and Textures

If you’re looking to add an ornate wallpaper look to your next site, you’ll definitely want to check out Web Design Ledgers post on 40+ Beautiful Patterns and Textures for Ornate Backgrounds.

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Jessica Hische

Check out the lovely illustration and typography work of Jessica Hische. I love her sense of humor and how it shows in her work! Makes me want to go out and illustrate something right now!!!

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Outside the box

I love the way this burger advertisement extends outside the ‘boundries’ of the ad panels in this subway station. Great way to grab attention and make a statement. Still does not make me want to eat McDonalds thought…haha.

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Is Spec Work Evil?

Interesting panel discussion from SXSW about spec work. What do you guys think? Evil? Not so evil? Watch the video and chime in!

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We Love Typography

From the guys at I Love Typography

We Love Typography is an image, video, & text ‘bookmarking’ site that is wholly dedicated to type-related content. Think of it as a type-centric and visional delicious, if you like. Membership is by invitation only.

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