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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

Schrofer Celebrates 25 Years of Design with Retrospective Exhibition During Elle Inside

During the Elle Inside Design event in Amsterdam from 11-14 September, Dutch designer Frans Schrofer will celebrate 25 years of design.

Erick van Egeraat Designs for Unity and Diversity

The new building for the City Hall in Grave, designed by Erick van Egeraat, was officially opened this summer.

Th1ng Directs Commercials for Massive Government Campaign

th1ng directed and produced five commercials commissioned by the Central Office of Information (COI) to promote learning languages to teens and young adults. The advertising agency was Farm Advertising.

NYTimes® Design

Prayers at an Exhibition: Bhutan’s Art and the Monks Who Protect It: For the next four months, two Bhutanese monks will perform daily rituals at the Rubin Museum of Art to safeguard the artworks included in “The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan,” an exhibition opening on Sept. 19.
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.

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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This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]: PureText Strips Formatting from Your Clipboard When You Paste (Windows) "Free system tray utility PureText adds a global keyboard shortcut to your system to paste text into any application without...
Postcard.fm Sends Custom MP3 Ecards [Ecards]: You can spend a good chunk of time searching the web for an ecard that isn't annoying, cheesy, ad-ridden, or some combination of all three. Or you can grab a picture, choose a song, and send a...
Make Your Own Jewelry Cleaner [Household]: Jewelry cleaner works great for restoring luster to your precious-metal accessories, and it can even take that awful, funky metal-gone-bad smell off of not-quite-precious objects. But paying for the...
DIY Keychain Money Clip Lightens Your Pockets [DIY]: We've already shown you several ways to streamline your keys with a DIY flair, but reader Oliver writes in with his own inventive method for lightening his pockets by combining his keys with his...
All About the Icons [Featured Desktop]: The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser. Often we think of desktop icons as the cause of a cluttered, ugly desktop, but as Windows user ryanst24 demonstrates, when laid...
Open in Google Chrome Extension Does Just That [Featured Firefox Extension]: Windows only (for now): The Open in Google Chrome Firefox extension opens any page in Google Chrome directly from Firefox. Based on the IE View Lite extension, this one also lets you set any page you...