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Hot Links for November 09
moleskine iPhone case
Not much for usability, but your hipster quotient will go through the roof.
Return Of The Easy Rider
A really interesting article about the development, design and marketing of the Trek Lime, a bike created by IDEO and Shimano. I think it’s a testament to the power of approaching problems from a different perspective.
So You Want to Create a Font. Part 2
How to create your own font. It’s not as easy (or quick) as you think it should be.
Hot Links for November 06
NYGirlOfMyDreams.com This could make for a good internet story… hopefully not a creepy one.
Hot Links for November 02
Twitterific 3.0 – The best little Twitter app for OS X is 3.0 today.
OpenSocial, the next really, really big thing on the web – A really, really good overview of OpenSocial. It’s the Next Big Thing. Seriously.
Making Stuff vs. Making Stuff Up – A Brief Message from Dan Saffer on thinking vs. doing
Eye-Fi is here from the future
This is soooo cool: Eye-Fi Adds Wi-Fi to Almost Any Digital Camera — meaning automatic uploads to Flickr, Facebook et. al. The future is here and you can buy it on Amazon.
TripAdvisor redesigns (beta)
TripAdvisor, the travel site that has never let me down, has cracked the lid on their new site — see it here. Overall, it’s a huge improvement — the effort and planning involved are evident in the information design and user experience. It’s much easier on the eyes thanks to the wider layout, increased whitespace, rounded corners and more. Congrats to the design team, whoever you are.
Lovely laser cuts
Refill7 is a very cool project from Refill Magazine (I’m not afraid to admit I’ve never heard of it.) — they’ve asked 50 artists to design their own decks by lasering through 7 layers of plywood.
There’s a ginormous gallery of the decks at Flickr that highlights the really cool and highly detailed designs with Laser cutting by Precision 20|20.