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Applied Arts - Best Weblog 2006
How Design - Top Ten Web Sites
Lotus Awards - Interactive: Best Interactive Miscellaneous
Portfolios.com - Bronze in Corporate Web Site category + Merit in Self-Promotional Web Site category
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Do Websites Need to Look Exactly the Same in Every Browser?

Do Websites Need to Look Exactly the Same in Every Browser?

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Categories: Websites | 2 Comments »

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Mark Your Space

More and more, it seems that one of the stronger motivational factors of the web is to tag, mark you space, define your borders, or claim your territ [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Categories: Websites | No Comments »

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Got Googe?

I always enjoy seeing what Google comes up with when specializing their logo for holidays and events. They must have been in a hurry to get their Val [...]

Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Categories: Pop Culture, Typography, Websites | 1 Comment »

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Canadians asleep on issue

It’s time to weigh in on the subject of Digital Democracy and Net Neutrality. No, we’re not just talking about clever alliteration, ther [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Thursday, February 1st, 2007

Categories: Helpful Tips, Learning, Technology, Websites | No Comments »

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Logo Trends 2007

Trends in graphic design can really suck, but they exist. Nothing seems new anymore and there’s no way to predict what will become popular. As [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, January 19th, 2007

Categories: Branding, Design, Helpful Tips, Websites | No Comments »

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Morals and Ethics in Design

I recently came across a pretty good design blog by New York Art Director Troy Finamore with some interesting thoughts on graphic design, branding a [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 4th, 2007

Categories: Design, Reading, Websites | No Comments »

50 Essential Bookmarks

We didn’t make the list, but Communication Arts’ 2006 50 Essential Bookmarks is a great resource for design and advertising fodder.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, December 31st, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Design, Helpful Tips, Learning, Websites | No Comments »

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Guardian Names NowPublic Top News Site

Our good friends at Now Public are enjoying some much deserved success these days. Not only were they recently featured as a new partner by ABC News, [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Categories: News, Websites | No Comments »

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PaperSpecs Online Paper Swatchbook

For those of you that buy print and spec paper on a regular basis, it can be a daunting tasks to determine what grades are available for your project [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Categories: Design, Helpful Tips, Printing, Websites | No Comments »

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The Playground

Stumbled on The Playground this morning which is an experimental site presented by Rick Valicenti. (of 3ST among others. Anyways the premise of this [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Categories: Design, Inspiration, Typography, Websites | No Comments »

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The Laws of Simplicity

After having a busy week of blogging I was going to try to take today off but ran across John Maeda’s site - The Laws of Simplicity. It has bas [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, November 24th, 2006

Categories: Design, Inspiration, Learning, Reading, Websites | No Comments »

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Kuler…. cooler?

Adobe has released a new website dedicated to exploring colour called Kuler. (get it…. colour…. kuler… colour…. kuler…) [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Categories: Design, Fun, Helpful Tips, Learning, Websites | No Comments »

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Ikea does it again

Ikea has done it again. Here’s a wicked site for their closet systems. [kudos Mike for heads up]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Categories: Design, Inspiration, We love, Websites | No Comments »

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Code Commenting

I admit it, I check the CSS on about 60% of the websites I visit. (huge props to the Developer Toolbar for Firefox on this one!) And while looking th [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Categories: Design, Fun, Inspiration, Technology, Websites | 3 Comments »

One man’s one-page resource

I just stumbled onto this great reference page put together by a “webmaster and web developer”. On it are links to all the resources he (o [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, October 27th, 2006

Categories: Design, Helpful Tips, Websites | 1 Comment »