Bainbridge Studios » Etc. http://bainbridgestudios.com Identity and Interactive Design Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:03:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Adam Lisagor on The Pipeline http://bainbridgestudios.com/2010/07/adam-lisagor-on-the-pipeline/ http://bainbridgestudios.com/2010/07/adam-lisagor-on-the-pipeline/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:43:48 +0000 Tom Carmony http://bainbridgestudios.com/?p=315 John Gruber and Adam LisagorAdam discusses his dissatisfaction with his previous work doing graphics and editing for television commercials and what it was like for him to take the leap of quitting his job and venturing out on his own commercially. It's absolutely worth a listen for anyone having done (or planning to do) the same. ]]> John Gruber and Adam Lisagor
Photo courtesy of Lucius Kwok

Our pal Dan Benjamin, who continues to cement himself as a “Dick Cavett for the Internet Age” with his engaging Pipeline interviews, has a gem in his latest episode, talking shop with Adam Lisagor. Many people may know Adam from the hilarious You Look Nice Today podcast, but he’s now making a name for himself crafting memorable, one-of-a-time promotional videos for products such as Square and Flipboard.

Adam discusses his dissatisfaction with his previous work (doing graphics and visual effects for television and film) and what it was like for him to take the leap of quitting his job and venturing out on his own commercially. It’s absolutely worth a listen for anyone having done (or planning to do) the same.

Hear Adam Lisagor on The Pipeline »

Cheap plug masked as full disclosure: We designed the 5by5 Studios website.

UPDATE: Merlin Mann hits the nail on the head in his post about Adam’s interview:

“I don’t know how you could listen to Dan’s swell interview with Adam without feeling at least a teeny bit inspired. Inspired to pick your new projects more carefully, to dump the less gratifying old ones more buoyantly, to give your latest draft just one more line edit, to start noticing the well-disguised opportunities that are lurking in the shadows of inconvenience and loss—to at least briefly double-check that the trendline for whatever stuff you’re making that theoretically matters to you is moving in a sustainable direction you can be proud of.”

Seriously. Check it out. Now.

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Campaign Monitor Downloads, Plugins & Extensions
A wide-range of useful apps and plugins that allow you to tie your current CMS, online store and more into an existing Campaign Monitor mailing list account.

Using Dropbox to Sync Things to Multiple Macs
Sharing the same database for the Things task management applications between multiple Macs.

Eventbrite – Online Event Registration
Sell tickets online and manage RSVPs and user registrations. Integrates with The Event Calendar WordPress plugin.

PatternWall
Free seamless pattern graphics.

10 Tips for Designing Mobile Websites | These Days Labs
Not a lot to add here; a great primer on important factors to keep in mind when designing for mobile devices.

You can find all of our recommended links (past and present) on Delicious.

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The queasy blend of friends and “friends” is central to the Facebook experience. People who might get some sane use out of Facebook are advertising something, a business or a service or something. Facebook might have originated as a means of personal connection, but now it seems like strictly business disguised as personal connection, and the rhetoric of it is just as horrible as that sounds. Everybody writes in ad-sized bits, everybody “likes” a million products and services, everybody affirms things and exclaims over things like TV pitchmen. It’s as if everyone you know is turning into those horrible shills who blog about things they pretend to like for company kickbacks.

Eileen Jones nails it (via jimray)

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We may have to hire this one to do our taxes next year.

]]> http://bainbridgestudios.com/2010/05/crunching-numbers/feed/ 0 Links of the Week: May 21st http://bainbridgestudios.com/2010/05/links-of-the-week-may-21st/ http://bainbridgestudios.com/2010/05/links-of-the-week-may-21st/#comments Sat, 22 May 2010 04:02:20 +0000 Tom Carmony http://bainbridgestudios.com/?p=299 Google Font Directory The full listing of Google’s newly embeddable webfont selection. Pictaculous Generate custom color palette from a image upload (link courtesy of Dan Benjamin). Linear Gradients One of a number of excellent tools on the site for generating CSS-based visual effects. You can see all of our recommended links on del.icio.us »]]>

Google Font Directory
The full listing of Google’s newly embeddable webfont selection.

Pictaculous
Generate custom color palette from a image upload (link courtesy of Dan Benjamin).

Linear Gradients
One of a number of excellent tools on the site for generating CSS-based visual effects.

You can see all of our recommended links on del.icio.us »

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jQuery Masonry by David DeSandro
An excellent twist on the standard CSS “float” approach to arranging page elements (courtesy of Cameron Moll and Daring Fireball).

Smooth Scroll Effect with Local Anchors
More jQuery magic.

Keynote Presentations on the iPad
Best practices for creating a Keynote presentation on a Mac for use on an iPad (link courtesy of Daring Fireball).

Twitter HTML Widget Customizer
Generates the old-school, unstyled version of the Twitter feed widget.

Postmark
An email delivery service for web applications.

22 CSS Button Styling Tutorials and Techniques
Pretty self-explanatory.

You can see all of our recommended links on Delicious »

]]> http://bainbridgestudios.com/2010/04/links-of-the-week-april-23rd/feed/ 0 Handy Code Snippets for Web Designers/Developers http://bainbridgestudios.com/2009/07/handy-code-snippets-for-web-designersdevelopers-2/ http://bainbridgestudios.com/2009/07/handy-code-snippets-for-web-designersdevelopers-2/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:08:19 +0000 Tom Carmony http://bainbridgestudios.com/?p=303 Antonio Lupetti, via his excellent web design/development site Woork, has posted a handy round-up of HTML/CSS/Javascript code snippets. For users of Panic’s Coda development app on the Mac, these items should definitely be added to your Clips library.]]> Antonio Lupetti, via his excellent web design/development site Woork, has posted a handy round-up of HTML/CSS/Javascript code snippets. For users of Panic’s Coda development app on the Mac, these items should definitely be added to your Clips library.

10 Useful Code Snippets for Web Developers (via Woork)

]]> http://bainbridgestudios.com/2009/07/handy-code-snippets-for-web-designersdevelopers-2/feed/ 0 End of the Year Links of the Week: December 31st http://bainbridgestudios.com/2008/12/end-of-the-year-links-of-the-week-december-31st/ http://bainbridgestudios.com/2008/12/end-of-the-year-links-of-the-week-december-31st/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:42:23 +0000 Tom Carmony http://www.bainbridgestudios.com/?p=113 How Entrepreneurs Can Survive a Cash-Flow Crisis BusinessWeek discusses ways for small business owners to deal with cash-flow difficulties from the current recession and credit crunch. Outdated Security Threatens Web Commerce Researchers have successfully faked the digital certificates that Web browsers use to verify a site’s authenticity, spotlighting the failure of some security firms to [...]]]> How Entrepreneurs Can Survive a Cash-Flow Crisis
BusinessWeek discusses ways for small business owners to deal with cash-flow difficulties from the current recession and credit crunch.

Outdated Security Threatens Web Commerce
Researchers have successfully faked the digital certificates that Web browsers use to verify a site’s authenticity, spotlighting the failure of some security firms to upgrade their technology (Bits Blog – NYTimes.com).

Adobe’s Flash and Apple’s Safari Fail a Privacy Test
In a test of the privacy protections in major Web browsers, Adobe’s Flash and Apple’s Safari performed poorly (Bits Blog – NYTimes.com).

Use Flickr to Find Images Free and Easy
A nice basic walk-through on different license restrictions for use of Flickr imagery in personal and/or commercial projects.

Google 2009: The Painful Details
Ian Lurie’s follow-up on the reasoning and methodology behind his “SEO 2009″ post.

SEO 2009: Adapt or Die
Portent Interactive’s Ian Lurie makes a great argument for the changing face of search engine optimization (SEO).

9 Year End Tax Tips | Dumb Little Man
Some good end-of-year advice for ways to save during the upcoming tax season.

Flexible Fuel: Educating the Client on IA
(A List Apart): A great introduction to working with clients on understanding information architecture issues related to web design and development projects.

You can see all of our recommended links on del.icio.us »

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A handy tutorial for editing WordPress blog comment structure.

WordPress “Art Direction” Plugin
This new WP plugin, currently in beta, allows you to individualized styles for each post (ala Jason Santa Maria‘s redesign of his personal website).

Viewzi: Rich Interactive Search Results for WordPress
Derek Punsalan’s review of a new search plugin for WordPress.

Ajaxload – Loading GIF Generator
This is a handy little free web app to quickly crank out animated GIF loaders for websites.

45 Beautiful Free Fonts for Modern Design Trends
Six Revisions offers a nice round-up of free fonts available online.

Flexible Fuel: Educating the Client on IA
A List Apart provides a great introduction to working with clients on understanding information architecture issues related to web design and development projects.

You can see all of our recommended links on del.icio.us »

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This one is an excellent gallery website showcasing mobile website and web applications.

Amazing Myspace Pages
This is a good roundup of some really solid design work on custom MySpace pages.

20+ Great WordPress 2.7 Compatible Plugins
This is a handy reference from Mashable.com on some of the top plugins that are fully supported with the latest WordPress release (ver. 2.7).

Force Targeted Links into New Tabs in Safari
Make Safari open targeted links in new tabs instead of new windows.

For Web Designers – Website Design Resources
Hundreds of useful links for website designers and developers.

Local Development on Mac OS X
Setting Up a Killer, Local Web Development Environment on a Mac with MAMP and VirtualHostX.

You can see all of our recommended links on del.icio.us »

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