Beautiful new web site

Jeffrey Zeldman’s “Understanding Web Design“:

Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.

Richard Rutter’s six iterations of setting text for the web.

The new design of Firstborn web site is slick and gray, but I still miss the white, crisp layout with the large typography. It’s newest work for Zune is pretty wicked.

Layer Tennis is on!

Leftover designs from the new msnbc.com
Wicked illustrations of Richard Wilkinson
Arlington Arts is quite orange
FOX News Porn is pretty pink

Jason Salavon‘s “sample layouts from a fullsize reproduction of the entire 2007 IKEA catalogue, leaving only color and structure.”

An annual report for Podravka, a food company, needs to be cooked first in order to be read.

The Flash interactive interface of Leo Burnett is cool but not so friendly.

NPR‘s second piece on Duke:

This episode of Jazz Profiles, the second in a series of four, follows Duke Ellington from his Swing Era successes through the incredible bouts of creativity that came over his band for the next forty years. It is the story of an acclaimed bandleader meeting groundbreaking talent, adapting to a changing music industry and continuing to innovate throughout his entire career.

Listen to the program here.