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Robert Meireles is the current AIGA Miami Digital Chair in charge of the website. He is a recent graduate from the New World School of the Arts majoring in Graphic Design. He has successfully ran multiple websites, as well as many successful branding identities.

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A List Apart®

Mapping Memory: Web Designer as Information Cartographer

The rise of the social web demands that we rethink our traditional role as builders of digital monuments, and turn our attention to the close observation of the spaces that our users are producing around us. It's time for a new metaphor. Consider cartography.

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CSS Sprites2 - It's JavaScript Time

In 2004, Dave Shea took the CSS rollover where it had never gone before. Now he takes it further still—with a little help from jQuery. Say hello to hover animations that respond to a user's behavior in ways standards-based sites never could before.

Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and T-Shirt Emporium is back. Hot new designs! Old favorites remixed! S, M, L, XL. Come shop with us!

Dexigner® Design Portal

ABI's Sustainability Driver Leverages Green Actions to Build Business

ABI announced Sustainability Driver, a new program that helps B2B companies effectively communicate sustainable initiatives and realize positive business results from green practices.

Ponoko ID Makes Custom Designed Goods Accessible

Now shoppers can have their goods designed and made just for them at the lowest price possible.

Stardust Gets Fruitful for Jamba Juice in Colorful 3D Animated Spot

Bicoastal creative production company Stardust Studios recently produced a spot for the New York-based creatives from advertising agency Publicis and their clients at Nestle's Jamba Juice.

NYTimes® Design

Art Review: Artists, Toe the Party Line: The Asia Society offers a modest but explosive kernel of a show on the history of culture and politics in China.
Art Review | R. Crumb: Mr. Natural Goes to the Museum: “R. Crumb’s Underground ” at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia offers an excellent opportunity to explore the artist’s five decades in comic strips.
Art Review | Kehinde Wiley: A Hot Conceptualist Finds the Secret of Skin: The Studio Museum in Harlem’s show proposes that Kehinde Wiley’s intellectual ambition and Photo Realist chops have allowed his career to get ahead of his art.

Editor's Blog

Photoshop Killer Tips

Photo Filters: How to apply a photo filter to your image. Download here
Printer Profiles: Using printer profiles in Photoshop. Download here
Hand Tool: Navigate more easily around a Photoshop Document, when you’re zoomed in. Download here
Custom Shapes: Take Illustrator shapes, and use them in Photoshop. Download here
Screen Blend Mode: Here’s a trick for lightening your images before you print. Download here

TAXI® Design Daily Feed

Web Site of The Day: 10 ways by Getty Images: Somewhere, somehow you've got to start. Pick one, at least.
The Front Seat Interview: Brian McCarty: In Brian Mccarty’s world, growing up doesn't involve growing obsolete from the things of childhood. In his world, growing up means getting more in touch with the things that mattered when he was a boy.
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BOOKS: Phaidon Design Classics: An extraordinarily absorbing, enticingly packaged and comprehensive collection of design classics that will, ironically, become a design classic itself. - reviewed by Wallpaper Magazine
The Driver Speaks: Plug and Play: Universal Connections, an exhibition by dialog05 in Munich presented a collection of USB art designed to make us think about technology in contemporary times.
The Driver Speaks: Cradle-to-Cradle Era: Sustainable design or C2C (Cradle-to-Cradle Design), what is it?
News: Nokia's First Public UMA Pilot Over WLAN is Underway: Nokia started its very first public Unlicensed Mobile Access pilot over Wireless LAN in the city of Oulu last week.

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Lifehacker®

Top 10 Home Automation Projects [Lifehacker Top 10]: You've got a computer that backs up vital documents, launches applications at the tap of a key, and effortlessly pulls down the information you need from the web—and yet you spend precious...
iRinger Turns Music and Video Files into iPhone Ringtones [Featured Windows Download]: Windows only: Desktop app iRinger converts any video or music file into an iPhone ringtone, including YouTube videos. You already saw how to make a ringtone using only iTunes, but iRinger brings...
Do Ebooks, Legal or Not, Make You Buy Real Books? [Ask The Readers]: Popular author Stephenie Meyer put her eagerly-anticipated vampire genre sequel Twilight Sun on indefinite hold after copies of her rough draft showed up on BitTorrent sites. The (obviously somewhat...
Tumbltape Turns Your Tumblr Blog into a Playlist [Playlists]: Want to share music playlists Muxtape style but don't want to muck around with PHP and host it yourself using Opentape? New service Tumbltape creates playlists of songs hosted on our favorite...
Recover a Lost Linux Password [How To]: If your memory or mistyping leaves you without the right password to get into an account on a Linux computer, there's no need to reformat. Make Magazine's Hacks Blog gives a step-by-step account of...
Love and Money [Sponsors]: Thanks to this week's sponsors for the firewood, marshmallows, and skewers: Chevy Fuel Solutions, IE8, Mike's Election Guide, Sharp Aquos, Sprint, Starwood Hotels, Symantec, T-Mobile, and Unscrew...