Weekly Web Roundup: The Pie Chart Edition #27
The major news of the week is the rumor surrounding the possibility of a Google branded Android handset. Gizmodo are reporting that a reliable source has claimed to have seen this device with his own eyes, calling the Google Phone “a certainty.”
It’s suspected the handset will be less than a typical handset and more like something with Google Voice at its heart. It will be interesting to see over the next few months whether these rumors prove true.
I’ve called this the Pie Chart edition after the first link which was my most tweeted link last week. It is a sarcastic and hilarious email exchange from a non-paying client to his designer. It is a must read!
- Please design a logo for me. With pie charts. For free.
One of the most humorous articles I’ve seen online. It details an email exchange between a designer and a client which descends into pure comedy. - Thought Different – Apple Design Archive
A superb interactive archive of Apple’s homepage design since 1997. It also rounds up the news around the design that year and details rumors of what’s coming next. - Textorize – Font Rasterizer
This is a Ruby-based font rasterizer command line utility for Mac OS X. It generates PNG files from an input string and options, using Mac OS X’s pristine typography facilities. - Gifts For Designers
Hightlighting a new, fun and creative gift idea for designers each day, this is a site to keep a close eye on in the run-up to Christmas. - The State of the Web Design Profession
A thought provoking article suggesting that one day we may be licensed and held to a strict standard and code of ethics, but until then, let’s act like we are now. - Undrln
Another of my newly disovered sites that highlights articles from the world of advertising, marketing and design. It’s an excellent resource so bookmark it! - Compass Style
Compass is a stylesheet authoring framework that makes your stylesheets and markup easier to build and maintain. With compass, you write your stylesheets in Sass instead of CSS. - 60 Websites with Huge Typography
Design is all about communication, and if you want to communicate something loudly and clearly, write it large! Here’s a selection of great websites that use big type to convey big messages. - The death of the URL
The URL and the ability for anyone to mint a new one and then propagate it is what makes the web so resilient, so empowering, and so interesting!
That’s a wrap up of the twenty-seventh edition. Were there any links you thought deserved a mention? If so drop a link in the comments so we can check them out.
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Grace Smith is owner of the small but perfectly formed web design studio Postscript5, in Northern Ireland. To keep up to date with the latest designalicious content, then please consider subscribing.