After spending three months in a cast earlier this year, I have managed to successfully break my other wrist now. (Apparently my bones are made of eggshell.) I’m still in the early stages, so typing is a challenge, and I’ve had all kinds of emails and business to attend to. Accordingly, I’m taking the easy way out this week, and sharing some interesting, mostly design-related, items from my Google Reader.
Pretty and/or interesting things
Jewel House Collection: Gorgeous pattern, and it resonates nicely with my new infatuation with English royals around the time when they liked chopping heads off willy-nilly.
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang: The font’s a bit overused and inelegant, but the titles are otherwise rather charming and lovely.
Stunning NYC Subway Station Hidden From Plain Sight, Until Now: My love for subway systems knows no bounds. I thought Grand Central was NYC’s piece de transit resistance!
Infographic of the Day: What the Bible Got Wrong: The short answer is “everything”.
Inside Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Unmakeable” Interactive Book: Remember real books?
Sixty-two Reasons Why “Gamification” Is Played Out: More arguments against FourSquare!
How to Bribe Police in Foreign Countries: Something I’ve always been curious about, and will almost invariably at some point need to know.
Nocturnalis / Durinalis: More gorgeous wine packaging.
Turns out, it *is* a river in Egypt: Utterly gorgeous view of Africa from space.
In Real Hot Sauce Now: I need to find this girl and marry her.
Design
Gender Disparities in the Design Field: I wasn’t actually aware there were any, although it becomes rather obvious the more technically-inclined you are. Is it Lady Ada Lovelace day yet?
Equal Height Column Layouts with Borders and Negative Margins in CSS: I am almost certain this will come in handy soon.
Quick Tip: Using Nested Styles with InDesign: Holy crap, this is going to save me SO MUCH time.
Learning to Love HTML5: Because I already know how to love SmashingMagazine.
You Suck at Powerpoint!: Tips for better-looking presentations.
Business
Are You a Freelancer Or a Consultant?: An issue I’ve been thinking about a good deal of late.
Handling Clients Who Just Aren’t That Into You: My clients love me, so of course this is never an issue.