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Nine Principles of Responsive Web Design

The makers of Froont, a browser-based design tool, posted these principles of responsive web design a few weeks ago. It’s an excellent reference, made even better by the terrific animations that illustrate each concept, like this one: Read the full article at froont.com. +

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Kameleon Icons

Stock icons keep getting more and more copious. My friend Vincent Le Moign, for example, keeps turning out sets with icons numbering in the thousands. Earlier in the year I mentioned that his Streamline set is among my favorites. This week he’s just released a new set called Kameleon, which includes 1,500 unique icons. What’s…

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Life After Pi

This is the first segment of a feature-length documentary called “Hollywood Ending” focusing on the complex evolutionary challenges facing the U.S. film industry. “Life of Pi” is a thirty minute video about the famous Los Angeles visual effects company Rhythm & Hues, which seemed to reach a kind of pinnacle when it won an Academy…

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Criterion Designs

“Criterion Designs” is a new book celebrating three decades of superb, universally acclaimed movie packaging design from The Criterion Collection. It’s a lavishly illustrated peek behind the scenes, including sketches, mockups, mood boards and reference materials of all kind, all pulled from the in-house art department’s copious archives. The book originated with Criterion Art Director Sarah…

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Tindddle

Tindddle is a fun mashup of a Tinder-style approval and rejection interface and Dribbble shots. Swipe or arrow key left or right to indicate your rejection or approval, respectively, of each piece of work. I enjoyed quickly running through a few dozen samples in no time, though as with all of these interfaces, I often…

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Byker

The Northern Block’s Byker typeface is a handsome geometric sans serif that, as the name suggests, is meant to evoke the high-end tooling of performance bicycles. Its designer, Jonathan Hill, says: The letterforms are constructed digitally from a technical grid and overlaid with handmade curves. The combination of this process creates a strong, organic font…

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Runway

Taken en route to California for the holiday with the iPhone 6 Plus’s pretty darn good camera. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. +

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What to Do with Homescreens

Betaworks has a new, simple app called #Homescreen that lets you share screengrabs of your phone’s homescreen. The ostensible purpose of the app is to satisfy broad curiosity about what people put on the default screen of their phones, but Betaworks is actually doing this to better understand the broader trends behind this very personal…

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Kidpost Is Now Out of Beta

After several months of development, Kidpost is finally live and out of beta today! For those new to it, Kidpost is a simple service for parents that pulls pictures of your kids from social networks, bundles them into a nifty daily email, and sends that email along to friends and families. It’s the easiest way…

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M Magazine

M Magazine is a new print and digital publication dedicated exclusively to the photographs taken with the Leica M series of rangefinder cameras. Whether the civil war in Central Africa or the problem districts of Caracas—countless stories are being told with the Leica M system. The LFI loan pool also contributes towards this: Leica cameras…

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