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John Emerson
backspace.com Joined about 10 years ago
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- Abstract: new Netflix documentary series exploring the art of design (netflix.com)
- Creative Arabic Calligraphy: Square Kufic (design.tutsplus.com)
- StaffPad: Music notation app for tablet (staffpad.net)
- Ferrolic — Digital, organic ferro fluid clock (ferrolic.com)
- The Most Awkward 404 Page on the Internet (visitsteve.com)
- The State of SVG Animation (blogs.adobe.com)
- Famous Engine: High-performance javascript library for animations & interfaces (famous.org)
- How to Center in CSS (howtocenterincss.com)
- Why People Don’t See What Designers Expect Them To See (nngroup.com)
- Implement localStorage web font caching (jaicab.com)
Posted to Ask DN: Best Watches for Designers?, Jul 27, 2016 Posted to The End of Twitter, Feb 01, 2016 LOL. Remember when Apple was beleaguered?
Posted to ASK DN: Female Focused Podcasts?, Nov 23, 2015 Check out The Web Ahead hosted by Jen Simmons.
Posted to StaffPad: Music notation app for tablet, Oct 07, 2015 Hey look, it's an elegant Windows app!
Posted to Rhei — Time flows. Literally., Sep 28, 2015 There's a very similar ferrofluid clock project here, but even more visually expressive: https://www.designernews.co/stories/56563-ferrolic--digital-organic-ferro-fluid-clock
Posted to Ask DN: Where to go in Miami?, Sep 27, 2015 The Wolfsonian Museum is a fantastic design museum. Not sure the kids would dig it, but it's not far from South Beach.
Posted to Click And Drag (2012), Sep 20, 2015 There's a zoomable version here: https://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/
Posted to NYT Video: Bieber, Diplo & Skrillex on iterating and collaboration—lots of design parallels, Aug 25, 2015 The motion graphic / music visualization is very nicely done.
Posted to Ask DN: What books should every designer read?, Aug 17, 2015 Design Writing Research was a big influence on me.
Posted to Site Design: Junior Agency, Aug 13, 2015 The site is flashy... but what else have they done? When I hire, I want to know about previous experience.
- Tuna - A typeface for print and screen (tuna-typeface.com)
- Heroicons A set of premium customizable SVG icons (heroicons.com)
- Ask DN: Best Watches for Designers?
- DN: Please block shortened links
- ASK DN: Female Focused Podcasts?
- Site Design : pronoun.com (pronoun.com)
- Click And Drag (2012) (xkcd.com)
- NYT Video: Bieber, Diplo & Skrillex on iterating and collaboration—lots of design parallels (nytimes.com)
- Data Vis: How your phone tracks your every move (abc.net.au)
- Creative Arabic Calligraphy: Putting It All Together (design.tutsplus.com)
I really enjoy my Pebble smartwarch. So much so, I went in for a Pebble 2.
Using the SDK I even made my own typography-based watch face. You can see other watchfaces here.