Reverse Graffiti.
Paul Curtis takes negative space to a grand scale by reverse scrubbing walls and roadsides, selectively restoring the original material behind the filth into beautiful landscapes. The article by Neil Coppen goes on to describe additional reverse graffiti projects throughout the world. Thanks Wooster Collective!
gameQuery.
Built out of jQuery, gameQuery aims to make game development easier without the dependencies of Flash or executables. Features include multi-layer sprite animation, collision detection, and swappable sound, among others. It might be a while off, but browsers are getting better at rendering Javascript with each milestone. I had no trouble rendering any of the demos, and it was quite impressive.
BTW, if you are looking to develop similar games in Flash, I strongly recommend Flixel, the Actionscript gaming extension.
Artwork of Simonic Page.
Do you enjoy cubes and colors on posters? If so, this collection of artwork by Simonic Page is definitely for you! I’m a sucker for blue, so I picked it as my favorite, which one is yours? Thanks Looks Like Good Design!
The first person to make me LOL on this blog post gets my recommendation for Tumblr Tuesday. I have enabled questions and photo replies, along with regular replies, so you have a ton of options. Make it work!
Update: There were some great jokes, but colinh won it with his reference to dividing by zero. Math and XKCD jokes win every time in my heart. I’ll be recommending him as soon as I know his category.
Top 8 Dreaded Favors Asked of Web Designers.
There are a million questions that could be asked and most span multiple careers, but Web Design Ledger has what it thinks are the top eight most horrific questions a family member / friend / client can ask you.
Visit Web Design Ledger for scenarios of each dilemma and lessons learned. The main problem I tend to run into is clients want a million mockups. I promise them one, maybe two at max, then let them sit on it for a bit.
15 Best Free Tools For Design & Development.
Kuler and W3C markup validation are my two favorites but I’m interested in checking out Redmine and Billing Boss. Some of the tools on here are well known, maybe for some all of them are. It is still a nice list. Thanks WebAppers.
Underwater Skyscraper.
Water-Scraper is an interesting approach to population growth, given that our seas are slowly rising. It is a futuristic idea from eVolo’s 2010 skyscraper competition. Being a nerd and having seen every episode of SeaQuest and SeaLab 2021, I fully support this architecture design. It looks like a giant jelly fish and each scraper is self sustaining. Thanks Inhabitat!
Tumblr Revenue Stream.
I’d be really curious to see what this feature represents. I wonder if they are going to start charging $1 for additional blogs or incorporate a gift system like Facebook. As long as they aren’t taking away or attaching fees to existing features, I think it should be an interesting chapter in the Tumblr life span.
I’ve personally always been surprised they don’t integrate advertising into the dashboard. It seems like they could make a killing with ads scattered randomly through the feeds, highlighted in different colors to avoid anger from accidental clicks.
TechKaraoke @ SXSWi.
March 15th, 2010, Pinqued is hosting TechKaraoke at Six Lounge. Check out EventBrite to RSVP for the event. I get to be VIP because DieRobotDie built the twitter feed tools that will be projecting on the walls and I designed the hot pink and sky blue, Austin skyline branding for the event. So nyah.
