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Look how run-down this old blog is. When was the last time someone dusted around here? Or cut the grass? Is that an old moldy sandwich over there? gross.
Web Tools : Baseline
What a super cool tool: Baseline is a web development kit that emphasizes, well, using the baseline to create clear and well-designed layouts. It’s free and gives you a ton of CSS and templates all ready to go, including forms and design on a strict grid. This super awesome idea was put together by ProjectUrbain,...
Pretty Blog Design : Smashing Magazine
For your design enjoyment and inspiration, Smashing Magazine has 50 New Beautiful Blog Designs that really are, beautiful. Some are simple, some full of rich textures and collage elements, and some that gracefully achieve a pretty design. Check them out for sure! PS: Additionally, most of these blogs serve to inspire or share on their...
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Awesome Idea : MagCloud
MagCloud is a great new(er) site where one can publish, print, and sell your very own magazines for very little money, and this looks like a fantastic idea. The site is free to join, and free for people to buy. You just upload the PDF of your magazine and these guys print and ship to...
Anyone Can Swiss
Anyone Can Swiss is a genius idea that gives kudos to international style type and design while at the same time ripping it a new one. Using the technology of “swissification,” the site takes your text and transforms it into something that the Bauhaus would be proud of, and then hangs your poster (mine is...
HOW TO: Make a Valentine from Onion Skins
Over on CraftStylish, there is a great How to on making this really beautiful box/notebook using onion skins. This method would be cool to create paper or covers for almost anything, not necessarily Valentines. Using only the peels and some tac paper, this is really a very pretty craft idea. Cheers!
HOW TO: Rubber Origami
THIS. IS. AWESOME. Using a wonderus material called PlastiDip that I had never heard of until today, blightdesign has created a really awesome Instructable that I’m going to have to try. Taking a paper crane and dipping it into PlastiDip, this is a super idea. Check it out!
4 Last Minute, DIY Gifts
So this Thursday is offical Christmas day, and in honor of hectic malls and waiting till the last minute, this week’s Monday 4 includes four great (and easy and cheap) DIY gifts for your loved ones. If you start today, you can have one or all of these projects done by Chirstmas Eve, wrapped and...
HOW TO: String Pendent Lamp Shades
ReadyMade magazine has a great HOW TO for some super cool String lamp shades using just string, balloons, fabric stiffener, and a hanging lamp kit. I started a similar project using string, a bowl, and some glue, but this is a way easier way to put it all together. You could use glue too if...
24 Ways: the advent calendar for web geeks
Ok, this isn’t wednesday, but this site/site design is too good to pass up. 24 Ways.org is the self-proclaimed “advent calendar for web geeks”, bringing an interesting or helpful web tip or process throughout the Christmas season. Great information and layout; super site. Cheers!
HOW TO: Make an Eames Chair
FANTASTIC! Found over at SwissMiss