Another great article about wireframing resources on Smashingmagazine!

Wireframing is one of the most valuable parts of any web design project. It can save a designer tons of time by hashing out the details of a site’s architecture, functionality, and content prior to actually starting a visual design. But if done inefficiently, it can end up costing more time and can even create bigger headaches for both the client and the designer.

Click Here for more than 35 resources for creating better wireframes, including tutorials on different methods and a variety of tools available.

This unique installation by taiwanese ou studio was part of the allstars exhibition during DMY berlin design festival 09.

The installation consisted of painted blue walls and elements of furniture from an old house.

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TypArchive.com is the brainchild of typographer RD Granados. The concept was to build an ever-growing typographic image archive featuring various disciplines, styles, specimens, techniques and oddities. The objective is to amass a high-quality, comprehensive global collection of images and to produce hard-copy volumes.

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Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.

Launch Personas

Here you can see Personas in the context of the art installation for which it was made:

http://smg.media.mit.edu/Projects/Metropathologies/metro_finalcut2_web.mov

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What makes a good logo? A good logo is distinctive, appropriate, practical, graphic, simple in form and conveys an intended message.

There are five principles that you should follow to ensure that this is so…

An effective logo is (in no particular order):

• Simple
• Memorable
• Timeless
• Versatile
• Appropriate
  

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Blog.SpoonGrphics have 15,000 visitors every day and 20k+ subscribers. It is one of the most popular design blog among web & graphic designers.

Chris Spooner is the guy behind Blog.SpoonGraphics. He is a freelance graphic designer and started the blog where he presents Illustrator and Photoshop tutorials, articles around the subject of design.

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Infographics can be a great way to quickly reference information.

Instead of pouring over figures and long reports to decipher data, an infographic can immediately make apparent exactly what a dataset actually means.

Find out more by going to this link: http://bit.ly/p81j7

Peter Belanger is a San Francisco based photographer. He photographs products and people for clients like Apple, Sony, Johnson & Johnson, Dwell Magazine and Macworld.

In this timelapse video of the creation of the recent MacWorld Magazine cover, he shows the process from start to finish.

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Siegel+gale applies the art and science of simplicity to create branding programs that  help organizations excel. Integrating multiculturalism, unity, strength, integrity and diversity, Siegel+gale successfully rebrands ICFJ’s new identity, giving it a more focused, powerful outward persona.

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Tripp, August and Adeline

Sometimes you look at a picture and it initiates a memory, a smile, and in this case a laugh. My nephew “August” (boy in middle) just had that “ready for the world” sort of look. He was the splash of paint I needed to start this collage. His younger brother Tripp and my daughter Adeline didn’t disappoint as well. What a fun bunch they are together.

They became my inspiration for a personal gift to my mom who they call “Nana” for her 70th birthday. Everytime I can’t think of anything to give to anyone, I always go back to doing some art.

I think I always will. Happy birthday mom!