Resizable full-browser background image with jQuery (preserving aspect ratio)

It shouldn't be this hard!

(saving this because I know I'll want it someday)

Quoted: This week the biggest dust storm in 70 years blew through Australia, and the photos of it were stunning. So on Wednesday at noon, I decided to make a photo magazine. It was published on MagCloud Thursday night. All told, it was 31.5 hours from idea to publication, and that’s with a few hours of sleep thrown in. I think this shows the power of print-on-demand in general, and MagCloud in particular, so I wanted to share my experience and show you how you can do it, too.

Quoted: A comparison of the best Mac Subversion clients of 2008

From Dipika Kohli of Design Kompany

Quoted: 7 tips for clear writing.

Quoted: Along with Apple’s official release of the new iPhone 3.0 software came a number of new graphic elements. We’ve been holding off updating the Photoshop file until we could properly implement the additions. We built it using vectors, so it’s all still fully editable. Apple’s SDK is amazing, but when we need to mock up something quickly for a pitch we turn to this.

Quoted: Media Lab student Neri Oxman creates art and structural designs that draw from the way nature works. That approach has already earned several of her works a place in the permenant collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Interesting suggestions on web fonts

Quoted: In this article, Michael introduces the idea of using font stacks to expand the number of typefaces you can use in your web designs. Try out these structured collections of fonts, and give more of your users a richer typographic experience today!

A mixed bag, but some interesting ideas.

Quoted: Last week's post requested all designers and web developers interested to submit their creative business cards for an upcoming post on TDC.... and this week we have the results! 50 beautiful business cards of graphic and web designers.

Quoted: In Melbourne I developed a way-finding-system for the Eureka Tower Carpark while working for Emery Studio. The distored letters on the wall can be read perfectly when standing at the right position. This project won several international design awards.