Snapshots: Week of 9 May, 2011

Ethan Marcotte: The Responsive Designer’s Workflow, Jeremy Keith [article] responsive, media queries, AEA, flexible grids, fluid images
Metropol Parasol, yatzer [architecture] public use, sculpture, Seville, parasols
What Makes a Good Designer, Dmitry Fadeyev [article] hiring good designers, specialization, understanding your audience, skills
RAD: Responsive Architecture at Daniels, [architecture] project-based research, workshops, computational power, situated technology
Kim Høltermand [photography] Copenhagen, ambiance, minimal, buildings, quiet beauty

Snapshots: Week of 2 May, 2011

Why iPad isn’t “mobile”, Pete Fairhurst [article] defining mobile, iPad, netbooks, tablets
When standards go awry, Marc Drummond [article] web standards, HTML5, accessibility, image attribute tags
Comic Sans Criminal [web project] typography, reasoned argument, appropriate use
“Mobile” versus “Small Screen”, Jeffrey Zeldman [article] mobile, responsive, media queries, definine your offering
25 Abandoned Yugoslavia Monuments [photography] architecture, monuments, sculpture, socialism, haunting
Phototopic Sky Survey [photography] Milky Way, stars, panoramic, astrology, constellations

Are your users S.T.U.P.I.D?, Stephen Turbek [article] user experience, boxes and arrows, testing, effective intelligence
GOAB. A TV Experience Concept, Syzygy [proof of concept] television, iPad, interaction, layered content, social interaction
Postcards from Google Earth, Bridges, Clement Valla [photography] series, Google Earth, corrupt data, perception
Symmetry, Everynone Radiolab, comparisons, juxtaposition, New York
The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science, Chris Mooney [article] rationalization, psychology, confirmation bias, neuroscience, facts
Wee Nudge [links] design, article links, feedback, clients, white space, the fold

Storm (Animated), Tim Minchin animation, beat, rants, wine, proven, hippies
Lady Liberty Stamp Depicts a Vegas Replica, The New York Times [article] USPS, stamps, Statue of Liberty, stock photography, commercialization
What Lucky People Do Different, Erik Calonius [article] luck, success, Steve Jobs, opportunities, keeping an open mind
Jesse Draxler [portfolio] collage, photography, found, faces, animals, buildings, abstract

Tipsy – Sonoma International Film Festival 2011, Psyop animation, wine, photo realism, anthropomorphic, wine, drinking
Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%, Joseph E. Stiglitz [article] income, economics, disparity, inequality, wealth
The fall and rise of user experience, Cennydd Bowles [article] User Experience, ubiquity, stagnation, obliquity, creating value
The Monster of Nix, Rosto [film trailer] animation, forrest, monster, Dutch, creatures, atmospheric
F*ck You. Pay Me., Mike Monteiro Creative Mornings, design, contracts, business relationships, advice
12:31, Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott [photography] murder, ghosts, long-exposure, night, cadaver

Thursday, Matthias Hoegg animation, blackbirds, technology, dystopia, alienation, love
Solidarités International, Clément Beauvais illustration, World Water Day, water, parchment, ink drops
Minigroup [web application] private, collaboration, group sharing, content management
Crinkled Glasses, Rob Brandt [product] product design, sculpture, Dutch, Crinkled Cup
Home Depot’s Home Improvement, Brand New [case study] Home Depot, branding, orange, slab serif, fools

An Unknown Master of Poster Design, Rick Poynor [article] design, posters, Karel Teissig, Czech, surrealism, grotesque
coralie bickford-smith great food covers, Design Sponge [illustration] design, illustration, Penguin Books, series, ceramic styles
Sex-Crazed Smutley Calls Attention to AIDS, AIDES humor, awareness campaign, AIDS, animation, Smutley the Cat
New York City Typography, NYC Type [photography] typography, street, New York, functional, graffiti, building signs
Blinky™, Ruairi Robinson animation, robots, helpers, pets, the future
The Sunk Cost Fallacy, You Are Not So Smart [article] psychology, economics, loss aversion, sunk cost
Do You Have Free Will? Yes, It’s the Only Choice, The New York Times [article] philosophy, free will, determinism, neuroscience, moral responsibility

1960s & 1970s Scandinavian design logos, Oliver Tomas [photography] design, Flickr, logos, logotypes, trademarks, Scandinavia
The Redesign Disease, Dmitry Fadeyev [article] design, usability, metaphors, content, trends, realignment
FOMO and Social Media, Caterina Fake [article] social media, fear of missing out, human behavior, kilesa, participation
Solo [web application] project management, freelance, business management, usable interface, data aggregation
Lean UX: Getting Out of the Deliverables Business, Smashing Magazine [article] design, Lean UX, user experience, Agile, process, prototyping, concept development, iteration
More, better, faster: UX design for startups, The Cooper Journal [article] design, Lean UX, user experience, Agile, process, cycles, iteration, startups
History of Science Fiction, Ward Shelley [illustration] painting, science fiction, timeline, chronology, tentacled beast
Web Standards Sherpa [web project] expert advice, web standards, accessibility, best practices, discussion

The Most Important Company of This Year’s SXSW Is: SXSW, Mike Davidson [article] south by southwest, conference, commercial endeavour, panels, paradox of choice
IE6 Countdown, Microsoft [marketing] impossible, unbelievable, out of character, end times, Internet Explorer
Fuel to the Fire, Chris Atkins [article] churnalism, publicity stunt, journalism, public relations, newsrooms
Buddhism and the Brain, Seed Magazine [article] religion, neuroscience, impermanence, illusory self
Anselm Kiefer at White Cube [exhibition] collage, found objects, seascapes, abstract, spattered, beautiful
Media Queries, Eivind Uggedal [collection] CSS, responsive web design, development, contextual presentation of content
Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer: Making Of, Visual Editions die-cuts, printers, innovative, publishing, making of
Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience, Charles L. Mauro [article] user experience, cognitive science, response time, short-term memory, visual design

My Super8, Rino Stefano Tagliafierro music, animated sequences, surreal, eyeshadow, love and hate, taxidermy, girls
life is simple, Moritz Resl [print] poster, design, happiness, doing stuff I like
small measures with ashley: naturally flavored coffee, Design Sponge [article] tips, coffee, cinnamon, whole beans
The Secret History of the Edgelands, Rick Poynor [article] urban developments, spaces in-between, decay, sparse, landscapes
Putting Back the Face into Typeface, Erik Spierkermann typography, design, visual language, design process
Saul Bass at Kemistry [exhibition] film posters, design, raw, powerful, minimalism
Frédéric Chaubin’s subversive Soviet superstructures [photography] architecture, Soviet, communist, social change
Isotype: International Picture Language [exhibition] design, design systems, pictograms, Otto Neurath, information, statistics
Mapping happiness across space and time, George MacKerron TEDx, talk, mappiness, LSE, mapping