Originally posted on Merriweather Font:
I have found some really pleasing uses of Merriweather over the last few years. I would love to show you a few I particularly like. I also wonder where you use Merriweather or what uses you think are good ones. Please post some URLs! Links: Google ventures – http://www.googleventures.com/ WordPress – http://wordpress.com/…
I laughed. Matt Miklic View original post
“Monks in Spencer launch brewery” But in recent years, the simple monks of Saint Joseph’s Abbey have quietly set about building one of the biggest breweries in the state and the first Trappist brewery on American soil. Their sleek 36,000-square-foot brewery — modeled after multimillion-dollar facilities in Europe— has already made its first commercial batches […]
I really love themes. This past year, I’ve been doing a lot more user experience design. I’ve been working more with building interfaces than building actual websites. To make up for the lack of from-scratch, visual design in my life, I’ve been focusing a lot on theme design in my spare time. I’ve been paying […]
Originally posted on WordPress.com News:
This week we have a roundup of no less than five new themes now available on WordPress.com. Happy holidays! Photolia Photolia by UpThemes is a responsive, single-column theme perfect for organizing photos, galleries, videos, and much more. The header area supports a widescreen custom header image and offers three…
A beautiful post from my awesome MP6 teammate, Matt Thomas. Matt Miklic Today the WordPress core team announced WordPress 3.8 “Parker”, a major milestone for the web’s most popular blogging software. In its 10 years WordPress has seen many changes, one of the most significant being the “Crazyhorse” redesign that came with version 2.7 in […]
“No Girls Allowed”, an account of gendered marketing and video games This is a pretty fantastic history of gendered marketing in the video game industry (and it has such great illustrations!). Long, but well worth the read.
Originally posted on Gigaom:
Erik Spiekermann, who has crafted dozens of version of the alphabet for companies and cities, believes typeface designers have an obligation to craft letters that are not just pretty but practical, too. “User interface designers must forget their vanity…don’t forget you’re running a service. You are supposed to design something for…
This looks delicious. BitterSweet Even to the seasoned eater approaching new cuisines with an open mind, it can still be difficult to fully embrace something that falls well outside of established norms. Far beyond unexpected flavor combinations or uncommon ingredients, raw “uncooking” essentially turns the entire concept of hot food preparation on its head. Largely […]
If You Can’t Pay It Backward, Pay It Forward Great article from my Workbar buddy, Tammy Fennell of MarketMeSuite, about ways you can “pay it forward”.
Stuff I find on the internet 