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Mark Boulton discusses how Five Simple Steps takes pride in the complete user experience of their books - from the initial evaluation on the website, to the purchasing process, the receiving and unboxing process, and finally the actual reading. Like Apple, I believe their target audience is the exact demographic that appreciates this level of detail.

CSS ninja style class t-shirt

Wow, this should be a spectacle. Terry Gilliam (Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Monty Python) is going to direct next week’s live streaming broadcast of Arcade Fire’s Madison Square Garden show. Tune in to this page next at 10pm on August 5th to watch it.

Jason Santa Maria’s essay on the web designer’s current toolbox and what an ideal design application would look like. The idea of using WebKit as the core seems like a smart concept.

Dexter Season 5 Trailer

Almost time to sign back up for Showtime. (via 6ixpassions)

There’s more than one way to bring the noise for that subtle textured look in your designs. This post talks about the pros and cons of five of them.

Antenn-aid

I totally missed the boat on the Tumblr shirt contest a while back. Here’s a quick idea I put together - maybe next time.

Andrew Kim, the 18 year old design sensation behind the recent HTC 1 and Google Vitamin concept work, shares his preferred sketching tools.

Lagoa Multiphysics - unbelievable fluid/cloth/particle sim demo.

Brilliant package design.

And they say Open Source has problems with visual design and branding. What. Ever.

/sarcasm

A Flickr set of themed MailChimp login screens.