I agree one-hundred percent with the speaker. Working with your hands is a wonderful thing and it’s a shame we’re losing it as part of standard curriculum.
Confederate P120 Fighter Combat
A ridiculously nice bike, if you’ve got $110K burning a hole in your pocket. Love the no-compromises design philosophy.
Who wants a mustache ride?
Oh how times have changed. (via EdibleApple)
Exploring Colors
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A huge part of design is picking colors. One thing I’ve never been particularly good at is choosing a color palette. Thankfully, there are sites out there that do nothing but catalog and explore color palettes, and I thought I’d share my two favorites.
The first is Kuler from Adobe. It’s a Flash-based application that lets you build, share, search for and browse color palettes, all submitted by other users. It also has some really fun features, like pulling a color palette from a photo on Flickr (my favorite photo sharing site) and easy export into the various Adobe design apps, like Photoshop and Illustrator. The color palette at the top of this post is the highest ranked from the last 30 days.
My other favorite is a site and blog called Colour Lovers. The blog is fantastic and a great way to broaden your exposure to palettes and get a sense for where these things come from. It’s in my list of daily reads on Bloglines and I highly recommend following it if you’re interested in color (or colour).
Firefox3 is out!
Firefox 3
Point your browsers over to getfirefox.com and download the best version of the best cross-platform browser yet. I’ve been using the alphas and betas and release candidates for a while and I think this will be a great release. Between the performance and typographic rendering improvements, I just can’t stand using Firefox2 any more.
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