Don’t forget the soldiers who had fallen, and those who are still fighting overseas for your safety so that you don’t have to fight them on your own country. My heart goes out to the families and friends of the brave soldiers who have perished in battles and attacks. Rest in peace.
Soldiers are just the pawns of the government – while I fight for the cause to withdraw as many troops as necessary for the safety of the soldiers, it’s not fair to put all the blame on them for the death of innocent civilians.
Today on Twitter, Jason and Susan shared this amazing video found on Vimeo. It’s an unofficial music video by Death Cab for the song Little Bribes, made by Ross Ching using “every time lapse, stop motion and live action camera trick that he could think of”. What is really impressive about this video is that Ross managed to avoid any repetition in the presentation of the song’s lyrics – a feat that needs a lot of creative juices, woah.
Made by Wilhelm Staehle, this set of retro/vintage-looking silhouette illustrations, titled Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre, is one interesting piece of art. It’s an excellent, ingenious mixure of humour and artwork.
Motion blur is frequently used to show a sense of speed – any object moving with respect to the camera will look blurred or smeared along the direction of relative motion. You can artificially achieve this effect in a usual scene using cameras with a slow shutter speed. The article provides you with some inspiration of what can be done with motion blur.
Webdesigner Depot published another awesome compilation – this time, they showcased 40 excellent logos created with Helvetica. Helvetica was developed in 1957 by Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann in Switzerland, making it a 50+ year old typeface that is still growing strong today.
Jean-Baptiste Jung shares 8 ingenious jQuery-based javascript solutions on CatsWhoCode.comto circumvent the common CSS problems. While CSS is a semantically correct way of styling your webpages, not all popular browsers (like IE6, I know this comes very naturally for a designer) support CSS3 and there’s always this problem of cross-browser compatibility.
As javascript libraries becomes increasingly popular among designers and website visitors alike, your daily visitors are now expecting more than just static pages – they would be thrilled to see interactive, fluid pages. In 2006 A List Apart published an article on the holy grail of webdesign, which involves coding for fluid layouts in CSS. With the popularity of javascript libraries like jQuery, Soh Tanaka has written an excellent tutorial on teaching us how to incorporate fluid display options on our pages – allowing visitors to switch between different forms of display (think iTunes libraries). An interesting concept that is actually very simple, and can be easily done with a few lines of jQuery and CSS.
