Last night I went along to a talk given by type design superstar Kris Sowersby held by the Australian Graphic Design Association.
After getting his start at the Wanganui School of Design, Kris now heads up his type foundry Klim, based in Wellington, NZ. He’s worked for some of the best design agencies in the [...]

10 UI design patterns you should be paying attention to — Smashing Magazine
jQuery for absolute beginners — Nettuts +
Let’s make the web faster — Google blog
Download iPhone GUI PSD 3.0 — teehan+lax
Design for mobile wiki: resources for designing and building apps and sites — Little Springs Design
Rupert Murdoch’s web ambitions — The Guardian
MySpace is forced [...]

A big congratulations to the team at CumminsNitro!
They have just been awarded 2 Grand Prix awards at the Cannes Lions 2009 56th International Advertising Festival for their ‘Best Job in the World’ campaign.
For those of you who have been living under a rock and managed to miss the publicity that surrounded this very successful campaign, [...]

Bluewire Media, the Brisbane based web design and strategy agency, has undertaken an extensive study of 16 leading property websites, evaluating them against 25 criteria covering web design, web development, useability, content quality, email marketing, business process use, Google search and social media use of websites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Youtube.
While the property [...]

I came across this typographic time waster today. Create a word from your Mac icon dock! See more or submit your own on Mike Giepert’s blog.

Another great stop motion video.

12 excellent free tools for monitoring your sites uptime — Six Revisions
iPhone OS on a touchscreen monitor — CrunchGear
Stop counting clicks — UX Booth
Informative and useful footers — Smashing Magazine
Secrets of a nimble giant — The Guardian
Mobile phone flies plane — The Courier Mail
Check my colours — See if the colours [...]

Google Chrome competition

Interactive data visualisations — Creativity Online
5 reasons why a digital agency should take usability seriously — Experience Solutions
Google takes its cameras out onto hiking and biking tracks — USA Today
Is Microsoft’s new Bing search engine better than Google? — The Guardian Online
Student photographers battle for spot on iGoogle — The Guardian Online
Technology is [...]

After weeks of research, I’m getting closer to publishing my review of the web strategies and web designs of 15 leading Australian property companies.
It’s been interesting so far. I have selected 25 criteria across different aspects of web design and strategy including: SEO, useability, design, content and social media. Against these 25 criteria I’ve given [...]

If you’re like me, you’re always on the lookout for trivia. I think it’s fascinating that I know that:

the sun rose at 5:06am the day I was born but also that there were no known notable events that day (which is false, obviously);
Dave was used as a female’s name in the US in 1882 and [...]

This article, Write Interesting Emails & Avoid the Inbox Vortex was originally published on Digital Ministry on 2 June, 2009.

By now most marketing decision makers know that Email Marketing campaigns can be a wonderfully effective way to communicate. But how do you avoid getting lost in the Inbox vortex?
You probably get 100s of these emails [...]