At the push of a button, hipKey™ will save you time by helping you find your belongings. Simply attach the device to the item of your choice and you’re ready to go.

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Debbie has interviewed over 200 people for her podcast, Design Matters, and the opportunity to ask her the questions was exciting, albeit slightly intimidating. With 30 years of professional experience and a multitude of personal projects under her belt, Debbie shows no intention of slowing down—this woman is a force in the world of design. But there’s more to her story than her current successes.

Be brave, bold, and above all, keep trying.

In fact, Debbie was generous in sharing about the years of rejection and despair that she experienced before finding her niché. Her stories and insights will challenge you, encourage you, and confirm that you’re not alone in your struggles—but in Debbie’s words, sometimes “the worst moments of our life can turn out to the best.” So go on, get up, hold your head high, and move forward in your pursuits.

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As part of the special Art + Tech themed month in coordination with John Maeda’s team at RISD, our speaker on June 8th, 2012 was renowned letterer, illustrator, web designer, and self-described crazy cat lady, Jessica Hische.  Jessica seduced a packed house with her enthusiasm and colourful language, sharing personal perspectives on the importance of typography as an example of the intersection of art and technology.

Even as “just a letterer” I learned how to code for the web and learn new type design applications.

Commenting on the stupidity of the question “What is your favorite font?” Hische encouraged attendees to stare closely at type, to learn how to select and use type well to express meaning, and most importantly, how to actually use the hidden technology that goes into type design and production. She passionately appealed to the audience to advocate for the value of type design, fearing the alternative being a decline in awesome type.

Creative Mornings

Jason Santa Maria was one of two speakers at the Kickstarter Benefit Creative Mornings in New York in October of 2012. In this honest and insightful presentation Jason talks about “Saying NO”.

It might be saying no to a project or job, or even something that you think you can’t say no to, but finding the strength to set your own priorities for what you want is one of the most crucial things you can do in life. Saying no used to make me uncomfortable, and despite making many mistakes on my way there, I’ve learned to feel good about saying it. The talk is just a short 20 minutes, but sums up most everything I’ve learned about the topic in all my years working and living.

Jason Santa Maria is a Graphic Designer living in sunny Brooklyn, New York.

Creative Mornings

WordPress Widgets

The following social plugins are available as WordPress widgets:

• Activity Feed: Shows readers their friends’ activity on the site, such as likes and comments.
• Recommendations: Gives readers personalized suggestions for pages on your site they might like, as well as a Recommendations Bar option to give users the option to add content to their Timeline as they read.
• Customizable Like, Subscribe and Send buttons.
• Comments Box: Makes it easy for people to comment on your site and post back to Facebook, and includes moderation tools. The plugin also features automatic SEO support for Facebook Comments, so search engines can index them to improve your site’s visibility.

Bre Pettis is the founder of Makerbot, a company that produces robots that make things. Bre is also the founder of NYCResistor, a hacker collective in Brooklyn. Besides being a TV host and Video Podcast producer, he’s created new media for Etsy.com, hosted Make: Magazine’s Weekend Projects podcast, and has been a schoolteacher, artist, and puppeteer.

CreativeMornings is a monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types. Each event is free of charge, and includes a 20 minute talk, plus coffee! You can join us in numerous cities around the world.

Quip Tweetglass is a Twitter app for iPad with a special focus on streamlining and condensing your timeline, especially when it comes to conversations.

With Quip Tweetglass, replies show their context right where they are. You don’t have to drill down away from the timeline for every reply because Quip groups them by default and arranges them the right way around for you.

Here’s a quick and easy way to implement the Open Graph Protocol in WordPress to share your Vimeo videos on Facebook. First, add the below code to the header.php file of your theme and change the og:site_name to match the name of your website.

<?php if ( get_post_meta($post->ID, 'vimeo', true) ) : ?>
<meta property="og:url" content="<?php the_permalink() ?>" >
<meta property="og:title" content="<?php the_title(); ?>" >
<meta property="og:description" content="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'description', true) ?>" >
<meta property="og:type" content="video" />
<meta property="og:image" content="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'image', true) ?>" />
<meta property="og:video" content="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'vimeo', true) ?>" />
<meta property="og:video:secure_url" content="https://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'vimeo', true) ?>" />
<meta property="og:video:type" content="application/x-shockwave-flash" />
<meta property="og:video:width" content="640" />
<meta property="og:video:height" content="360" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Across the Wire" />
                <?php endif; ?>

 

'supports' => array('title', 'editor', 'thumbnail', 'comments', 'revisions', 'excerpt', 'custom-fields')

Frank Chimero is incredibly passionate about design — this is clear from his talks at NAconf, Build, and the Do Lectures, as well as his book “The Shape Of Design”. Frank manages to communicate his thoughts and ideas in a way that is both entertaining and enlightening. It’s hard to pinpoint one takeaway from this book, it’s that incredible.

Buy it Now

Craig Mod on the death of the cover “as we know it,” and what we can do about it now that it’s dead. Craig’s essay is nothing less than inspiring.

The cover image may help quickly ground us, but our eyes are drawn by habit to number and quality of reviews. We’re looking for metrics other than images — real metrics — not artificial marketing signifiers. Blurbs from humans. Perhaps even humans we know! And within the jumble of the Amazon.com interface, the cover feels all but an afterthought.

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