Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you’ve never noticed Roman Mars is obsessed with flags — and after you watch this talk, you might be, too. These ubiquitous symbols of civic pride are often designed, well, pretty terribly. But they don’t have to be. In this surprising and hilarious talk about vexillology — the study of flags — Mars reveals the five basic principles of flag design and shows why he believes they can be applied to just about anything. ...
Bit This! Advertising, Design & Digital Culture → Bit This! is not an advertising agency, or a design studio, nor a digital agency or a branding consultancy. It is all this and much more. Bit This! is a new communications agency that was born from one idea: when we thought we knew all the answers, they changed all the questions. Wirklich schöne Website, alles sehr groß und schön bunt. Gefällt mir. ...
CSS3 Filters: Altering HTML and Images with just CSS → CSS3 Filters are a quite interesting offshoot from SVG, allowing you to modify HTML elements and images with blurs, brightness and a lot more. In this quick tutorial we’ll go over exactly how they’re going to work. Schwarz-Weiß- und Blur-Filter sollten unbedingt in den HTML5-Standard aufgenommen werden. Damit könnte man so großartige Dinge umsetzen. Thank you Jonathan
Wer eine gut lesbare, hübsche und von vielen Systemen unterstützte Schriftart auf seiner Website einsetzen will, sollte auf Helvetica setzen. Hier ein sehr guter Code-Snippet. body { font-family: "HelveticaNeue-Light", "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-weight: 300; } Der Code ist von Chris Coyier am 10. August 2009 veröffentlicht worden.