fabulous font!

Just seen a great new font released by Darden Studio: 'Jubilat'

Very pretty! Just wish I could afford to buy it!



Link via the daily report (jeffrey zeldman)

upgrade yes.... pay for upgrade hmmm

Lightroom 2 just launched today. Sadly for me, its £69 + VAT to upgrade from Lightroom 1.4 to 2.0 grrr... really want some of those new features tho, a list of changes are on the Adobe Lightroom blog.

Mac OS X background tutorials

Found a nice tutorial on creating backgrounds that look a bit Mac OS X ish.


I made this one after following it. Not too bad for 5 mins photoshoppin, thanks Veerle!

(feel free to grab the full size version - can't remember what size I made it, think it's a 6x4 crop ratio tho - might need to recrop or resize to get it to fit your desktop - pls note the cc license)


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.

mmm iphone UI

there are a few things from the iPhone UI I'ld love to try to implement on a normal html website. Might have to try them out myself - wonder if Apple would be upset with someone reusing their 'design' (or the concepts anyway) in a different context.

the 'slider' for on/off (boolean) type fields - the iPhone has these pretty 'slider' buttons for yes/no on/off etc fields which could probably be implemented with a tweaked version of the Yahoo UI slider - would need some nice images for the 'background' and the slide image. Would need to be still accessable by keyboard tho for tabbing through - wonder if it's possible.

'flicking' a page up and down. guess the only way to do that in today's browsers would be to embed the site into a control of some kind that could handle the 'flick' and click/drag functionality

£200K for something a kid coulda drawn

The new logo for the london 2012 olympics was unveiled recently (today? not sure). it's sure not impressive for the rumoured £200K spent on branding

What were they thinking?! Even the colours are foul! Doesn't represent either london or the olympics. *shudder*

Gonna have to leave london well before all the banners and branding and advertising goes up in case I get freaked out on the streets.


[Edit: someone beat me to it and set up a petition to get rid of it!]

fowd

at the future of web design conference today. first speaker just started :)
I like conferences with free wifi and power points at your seat!

Seems everyone here has a camera... seen some funny stuff - one dude with a really slow lens trying to take pics with no flash and no tripod - pretty dodgy! (yep i am a camera snob)

avatar

someone asked me about my avatar the other day... I've been using it all over the place - the forums I post on, msn messanger, logon icon on my mac blah blah.

It's a vector drawing I've started doing (and never finished!) from a self portrait I did one day. Must finish up the vector (yeah yeah procrastinator!).

Here's the two versions: