Facebook app/game width Oct 10, 10, 2:57 a.m.

I can't get it out of their documentation and haven't done this over the last 8 months.

Anyone know if you can still design for 760 px width? if not, what's the new width?

Project Horror Stories Oct 1, 10, 7:24 a.m.

For class I'm teaching:

looking for horror stories involving work with sales people, clients, project managers and anybody who's not a designer.

Other things that went wrong can also help.

typogrphy on ipad Aug 22, 10, 12:38 a.m.

Anyone have any experience in using live text with typefaces that do not come with the ipad by default?

What are the technical aspects?

What are the legal aspects of distributing apps with fonts included?

thanks

Voting mechanism in flash Dec 1, 09, 2:04 p.m.

Anybody know of a service that allows you to include a voting mechanism inside flash, without having to store results on your end and with cookie/ip monitoring?

tweet widget Nov 23, 09, 1:51 p.m.

anyone know of a widget allowing users to tweet from flash (not follow, publish) – apart from the one on activeden?

Creative project management software Jun 30, 09, 10:39 a.m.

Looking for online software to manage creative requests, post and manage assets,documentation track progress, review, etc.

It is required for many quick turnaround projects with templates for standardized producst but also custom solutions and needs to be simple enough for a sales person to understand (a mighty task, I know). Because of the nature of work (many projects, quick turnaround) – every aspect of the project needs to be housed in the same place.

Basecamp is not quite there – anyone know of a worthy product?

Worst Logo Ever? Apr 23, 09, 1:36 p.m.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlanti…

Freelance in Palo Alto Mar 5, 09, 1:21 p.m.

Needed for short gig

Entertainment sites Jan 13, 09, 11:52 a.m.

Anyone have good examples as what qualifies as an online entertainment destination?

Which ones do you think are good? why?

Mexico City Dec 23, 08, 9:43 a.m.

Going to Mexico City for new year's.

Any recommendations?

PLEASE Help ID typeface Oct 16, 08, 10:04 a.m.

thanks

ripped Jul 20, 05, 2:04 a.m.

I just discovered (accidently) someone I used to work with is displaying a logo I designed in his portfolio.

He's actually a very good designer, with a kick-ass portfolio in his own right and I don't really see why he would need to do something like that.

I haven't been in touch with him for at least 5 years.

What would you do?

design quotes Sep 16, 03, 12:41 p.m.

Here are some designer’s and design related quotes I collected over the years, some are from the “world design” book.

”I wanted every spread you opened to be a poster“ — Neville Brody.

Some prophesies fulfill themselves:
”One cannot communicate anything“ — DAVID CAR5ON

The last part of this statement is sad, but true:
”Video has recorded the movie, Taped music has become more than live performance. Advertising has sublimated the product“ - Nigel Coates

”Basically it is a matter of making our customers successful“ - Hartmut Esslinger

”In America I brazenly sell my jeans for $50. If you think about it, $50 is not a lot to pay for a lovely ass“ — Elio Fiorucci

”America is the only country where you can go from barbarism to decadence, without passing culture“ — Anonymous

”The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism“ — Walter Gropius

”Design is the art that combines consumer needs with the possibilities of industrial production“ — Olavi LindÈn

This guy has not heard of the WWF:
”Ugliness sells badly“ — Raymond F. Loewy

”Less is more“ — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Utopian vision:
”The first rule for a designer is to find the right customer“ — Massimo Morozzi

”Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been hatred of modern civilization“ — William Morris

”It is a marketing ploy of huge dimensions, calculated to sell a product by covering it with a skin which smells of design. No one finds this smell as bad as the designer, whose good intensions are sliced in two and sprayed matte black“ — Jasper Morrison

"A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design“ — Verner Panton

”When you chop wood, splinters fly“ — Joseph Stalin

"There will be no post-modern design“ — Pentagon
Amen.

"All a designer can do is to anticipate a mood before people realize that they are bored. It is simply a matter of getting bored first“ — Mary Quant

"We don't expect everyone to become expert designers. That is neither possible nor desirable. We cannot all become accountants, but we can learn to read a balance sheet“ — Gordon Russell

"Having an idea is something that cannot be learned anywhere“ — Richard Snapper

"For fifty years function has been considered an established concept when in fact it has never been fully understood“ –Borek Sipek

"I am not taken in by good form“ — Ettore Sottsass

"Design does not really interest me“ — Philippe Starck

"Less is bore“ — Robert Venturi

My favourites:

”Affluence offers the kind of freedom that I am deeply suspicious of. It offers freedom from restraint, and it is virtually impossible to do something without restraints“ — Charles Eames

”Decoration is disguise“ — La Corbusier

"I want to make things that recede into the background“ — Dieter Rams

This is from the guy that when someone complained that the ceiling he designed was leaking on a dinner guest said; "tell him to move the chair" :
"Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge“ — Frank Lloyd Wright

”Taste is the enemy of creativity“ — Pablo Picasso

”Good artists borrow, great artists steal“ — Pablo Picasso

” I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.“ — Pablo Picasso.

”Consumer culture is contradiction in terms“ — Tibor Kalman

”The white spaces inside the letter are more important than its external outline“ — Adrian Frutinger

"Don't do what you know, do what makes sense“ — anonymous

My absolute favorite:

"There is no problem only solutions“ — John Ono Lennon

Some others:

” if you build it they will come, and they will probably make you move it“ — anonymous 3D designer

”Jakob Nielsen will die after the revolution :) “ — El Capitan

”Give me ten more minutes“. — Anders R.

“I don’t like green“ — the client

Software companies' sites Dec 10, 03, 6:54 a.m.

Anyone know any well-designed software company sites?

thanks.

e-commerce solution for mp3s Dec 18, 03, 12:11 p.m.

A client of mine needs to be able to sell single (her own) mp3 downloads and combinations via her web site.

Does anyone know of a service that lets you do it?

Thanks.

Cinema display problems Feb 11, 04, 7:38 a.m.

okay, so i finally get my 20 incher, get it outofte box, follow the instructions, start my computer and watch it start.

Just when I think 'finally, Apple got it right' my monitor goes black. I restart, it stays black. I connect the old monitor with the new one, the computer strts displaying only on the new one and in the middle of startup switches to the old one.

I disssonnect the new one, start with the old one, my keyboard works, but the mouse is frozen. I reboot from a CD, zap the P-RAM and it starts OK.

I'm on a G4 dual 500.

I'm in the middle of work, I can't afford to install the system again.

Any ideas how I can start using the damn monitor? Local support is worth nothing. I ordered a G5, but it'll be a while till I get it and i don't want to wait.

Every time I buy apple I end up regretting it. Steve Jobs' punishment in hell will be an endless progress bar frozen just before its end telling him when the torture will stop (a beautifully designed aqua one).

Can't move icons osx Feb 14, 04, 2:02 a.m.

I can't drag icons anymore, they are frozen.

tried throwing my icons' cash. tried re-installing stuffit.

Plus, illustrator just keeps crashing, even after re-install.

Anyone know what I can do? can't sfford to re-install system right now.

why can't these damn macs just fucking work? I hate them.

I hate my Mac. Feb 26, 04, 8:47 a.m.

It's getting to the point where the shortcomings of the OS, mail application bugs etc. are causing real damage. I almost lost a client because of this damn computer today.

I've never hated a machine like I hate my Mac and that includes dental equipment.

Typeface help Mar 22, 04, 6:13 a.m.

can anyone recommend a good streamline, 50's Americana typeface?

thanks.

lookiing for elvis Mar 27, 04, 9:20 a.m.

Hi,

looking for any quicktime or mpg materials out there on the web with early live performances of Elvis (pre-squined leasure suit)

thanks