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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!

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Dexigner® Design Portal

Commerce Design Brussels
Commerce Design BrusselsCreativity and innovation in the design of points of sale can play a big role for a better economic and commercial development for Brussels, while having an impact on the quality and the improvement of urban life, the places and the attitudes of consumption and the capital's image in Belgium and abroad.
Brisbane Indesign 2008: Queensland's Premier Design Event
Brisbane Indesign 2008: Queensland's Premier Design EventBrisbane Indesign is a leading design event bringing over 4000 of the most respected architecture and design professionals together with the best international and local products.
Designed in China: Not Made in China
Designed in China: Not Made in ChinaSince China opened up to the West 15 years ago, it has gone through an aggressive modernization program.

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NYTimes® Design

Art Review: Ancient Art, Served on a Present-Day Platter
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s fine Latin American collection is back on view after three years’ absence, but it gets lost in the new nightclublike décor.

A Los Angeles Theater Is Renovated, Relieving Headache-Inducing Quirks
The Mark Taper Forum will reopen with a revival of John Guare’s “House of Blue Leaves” after a yearlong, $30 million renovation.

Riitta Immonen, a Founder of the Marimekko Textile Company, Dies at 90
Ms. Immonen was a designer of uniforms and ready to wear with a couture touch.

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Editor's Blog

Photoshop Killer Tips

Selections in Action
If you are making a selection while recording an action, you can use percentage to make sure the action works on documents of all sizes. Download here

Before and After
Use the history palette to see how your image looked at the very beginning. Download here

Saving Presets
Set up presets for your own commonly-used document sizes. Download here

Using Presets
Save yourself some time when creating a new document by using one of Photoshop’s preset document sizes. Download here

Editing With Clone Source
Here’s a tip about using the clone source palette options to help edit your photos. Download here

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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.
EXPANDED: The Creative Industry's Most Updated News Source
The Creative Industry's Most Updated News Source, Now 3X MORE!
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®

Eight Great Back-to-School iPhone Apps [Back To School]
If you're headed back to school this semester with an iPhone or iPod touch in your pocket, you're in luck: The iTunes App Store is filled with applications to make your life easier as a student and...
Battle of the Must-Have Firefox Extensions [Lifehacker Faceoff]
Mozilla Labs crowned their picks of best new and updated Firefox 3 extensions in a recent contest, but what about best extensions of all time? Last year we ran down our must-have Firefox extensions,...
HashTab Verifies the Integrity of Your Downloads [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: If you download a lot of applications from the internet, chances are you've seen an MD5 hash next to the download link. This unique hash is used to verify the integrity of your...
UNetbootin Creates USB-Bootable Linux the Easy Way [Featured Download]
Windows and Linux only: Free bootable image creator UNetbootin automates the downloading, imaging, and installing of Linux distributions onto USB thumb drives, creating a persistent, boot-anywhere...
Hive Five Winner for Best FTP Client: FileZilla [Hive Five Followup]
Open-source FTP client FileZilla takes home the top spot in last week's Hive Five Best FTP Clients poll with an overwhelming 52% of the vote. The rest of the field was split up relatively evenly...
How Easily Are Your Accounts Hacked? [Security]
Using only information from Facebook, blogs, and resumes, security expert Herbert Thompson hacked into his friend's bank account in minutes. Makes you want to seriously rethink your answers to lost...

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