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∞ Exploded Settings icon

A wonderfully nerdy tee by Sebastiaan de With.

∞ The Days of Miracles and Wonder

Greg Knauss role plays some excellent perspective.

This year will be a busy one in terms of speaking events. I’m currently crafting a brand new talk titled, “The CSS3 Experience”. It’ll focus on enriching the experience layer with advanced CSS and CSS3. Everyone can easily add enhancements to to their designs when focusing on the interactions and events that happen on the page. And by targeting the user experience with these new and evolving standards, you can start using these flexible techniques now, on any site, with less worry.

Well damn, that sounded rather pitchy, didn’t it? That’s partially because the talk may very well also turn into a new book/DVD bundle, and the details of that are being worked out. Simply writing this blog post is helping hone the focus.

Several conference dates have already been set for 2010, including all five (gulp!) An Event Apart shows:

An Event Apart: Seattle — April 5-7, 2010. I’ll also be splitting a full-day seminar with Jeremy Keith after the conference proper. I’ll cover CSS3, while Mr. Keith covers all things HTML5. It will be most excellent. You can save $100 off the ticket price by using the code AEACEDE when registering for the two-day or three-day event.
Future of Web Design: London — May 18-19, 2010.
An Event Apart: Boston — May 24-25, 2010.
Voices That Matter: San Francisco — June 28-29, 2010.
An Event Apart: Minneapolis — July 26-27, 2010.
An Event Apart: Washington, D.C. — September 16-17, 2010.
An Event Apart: San Diego — November 1-2, 2010.

Hope to see you at one of these events!

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∞ FF Nuvo

Celebrating Firefox 3.6’s support for WOFF (Web Open Font Format), FontFont is giving away the WOFF version of FF Nuvo for free.

∞ 300&65 Ampersands

An ampersand a day keeps the… something away. This is my kind of calendar.

∞ American Pixels

A series of subtly mosaic’d photographs by Jörg M. Colberg.

∞ Espresso, Intelligentsia

Perfect little video on how to make good espresso. Beautifully shot. (via)

∞ Alphabet City prints

Artist Scott Teplin’s “… series of 26 dream-houses fashioned after our alphabet”.

∞ Blogotheque’s Take Away Shows

Ethan turned me onto these excellent candid videos from bands like Phoenix, Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver. In their own words, “every week, we invite an artist or a band to play in the streets, in a bar, a park, or even in a flat or in an elevator, and we film the whole session”.

∞ Letterpressed by steamroller

Now that’s one way to make an impression. Found while looking for local letterpress shops.

∞ The Setup

Waferbaby has been conducting nerdy interviews with folks about their gear. The latest features another nerd named Dan, who hides behind a ballcap.

Things I Saw Today

There is no fold. Viva la scroll!

I hate camera straps. But LumaLoop looks like it could be the savior of my camera-carrying woes.

The ABCs of Branding is a sweet poster that’s “…foil stamped and embossed to create an alphabet composed of letters from many of the more famous (and some infamous) logos of all time”.

I also saw photos of an amazing art installation made entirely of large quantities of salt.

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∞ Going Nuts with CSS Transitions

Wonderful article by Natalie Downe on using CSS3 transitions and transforms. Excellent and appropriate examples.

∞ Grain Edit interviews IS050

Great interview with the multi-talented Scott Hansen, aka ISO50. Several things resonated with me here, including: “I am not sure that I understood what graphic design was at the time, but looking back I think I was practicing it early on”. I think the same thing happened early on for me as well. I was always aware of branding, graphic design, etc. Just never applied myself to it until later in life (and really, because of the web).