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Monday, June 02, 2008

‘Sarcasm’ brain areas discovered

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4566319.stm

Well that explains me.

Sunday, June 01, 2008

Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/wireframes/

Yahoo made public its awesome collection of stencils for most wire-frame and graphics programs. Worth the download.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

ShopComposition

http://www.shopcomposition.com/

Linked not just for the awesome goods (if overpriced), but check out all the javascript effects and the uber-resizable layout (click the green things and menu items). Nicely done.

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Building a Dynamic Website with ExpressionEngine

http://www.pragprog.com/screencasts/v-riexp/building-a-dynamic-website-with-expressionengine

Learn my favorite content management system the visual way with this fairly affordable series of screencasts. My one issue is you may want to wait for EE 2.0, though the ideas will for the most part carry over, even if the UI is dramatically different.

Sex, Story Telling And Games

http://powet.tv/2008/05/27/sex-and-games/

Two must view cartoon styled lectures about the future of video games as a creative medium. One taking on the not as yet fully discovered art of story telling in games, the other, on how to deal with sex as a story mechanism, not just a sales tactic.

The Art of Gianluca Mattia (NSFW)

http://www.gianlucamattia.com/

Modern day punk pinup artist, beware some nudity. I'm just a sucker for the alt-goth and 50's pinup look.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Blank Vector Clothing Templates

http://outlawdesignblog.com/2008/free-blank-vector-clothing/

Possibly useful one day

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Preview Handlers for WindowsXP

http://www.azarfamily.org/previewhandlersforwindowsxp

Finally frustrated that I could not preview my gotvmail voicemail emails inside outlook, I googled for an outlook preview pane extension, and found this! Handles darn near everything and makes the function actually useful.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Graffletopia

http://graffletopia.com/

Stencil sets for OmniGraffle, useful for wireframing your next .com. Perhaps I should switch from Visio?

Monday, May 05, 2008

Mars 1

http://formatmag.com/features/mars-1/

Very cool alien worlds by an intersting talent.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Six New Dark Knight Posters

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/new-dark-knight-posters-of-plenty-6-new-ones.php

Can't wait for the movie, loving about half the posters.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Propaganda Design & Aesthetics: Soviet Retro Posters

http://www.crestock.com/blog/design/propaganda-design-aesthetics-soviet-retro-posters-118.aspx

Very cool examples, those commies knew how to design!

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Cool business card designs, Part 2 | creativebits

http://creativebits.org/cool_business_card_designs_part_2

You can never have too many cool business card designs!

Science Machine

http://store.thebigpugh.com/product/science-machine

I want this, will someone buy me a print? I'm lovable! Be sure to check out the link that shows the entire design process.

Art On Tokyo’s Construction Fences

http://pingmag.jp/2008/04/21/constructional-fence/

Gotta love the Japanese!

About

Hi, I’m James Buckley.

I’m a 26 year old web geek with a background in design, usability and nerd-foo. I’ve been blogging designing commercially since high school and I currently work for Nutmeg Consulting as a business system analyst.

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