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Wednesday’s Weekly Reader

August 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Another week's worth of great stuff on the web, but first an Fantasy Olympics update: it seems that despite a good start, Austria has slipped to the bottom. Alas!

Re-visiting the Orphan Works Bill debate:
I first posted about this issue here and here, and now Etsy's Storque puts the debate up to their readers. 

Great Resources:

  •  If you're like me and always hoping to brush up on more webdesign skills, WebChicklet posted a great resource list for learning CSS. (via swissmiss)
  • SpeakUp! just posted an awesome review of the book Dear Lulu. Designed by design students in Germany, the book is essentially a test to see how well the digital on-demand service could print everything from half-tones to colors and how well the piece was trimmed and bound. Sweet idea and well designed:
    via SpeakUp!
  • For those art history nerds like me, check out Nancy Stock-Allen's well-designed History of Graphic Design site for class notes. (also via swissmiss)  
  • And finally, if you love Sprint's Speed of Light campaign and want to do your own light drawings, check out Light Doodles for a gallery and how-to. (Thanks, Linden!)

Pure eye-candy:

  • Shadows Never Sleep reinvents the picture book for your iPhone (or iPod Touch!)...via Coudal
    Courtesy of aya natalia karpinska
  • And in honor of my upcoming post series on animation, this gorgeous snippet of a short from Carlos Lascano: A Short Love Story is one of the most beautiful pieces of stop motion in a long time. (also via Coudal)
    Courtesy Carlos Lascano 
I think that about sums it up! I'll be posting about Wall•E later this week and hope to follow that up with some more animation-related posts.

Related posts:

  1. Wednesday’s Weekly Reader: Oscar Noms and Aardman Animation
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  3. D.C. Inspiration: Goethe Institut

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Tags: Animation · Book Design · Illustration · Inspiration · Typography · Web Design

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  • 1 iPhone News » Blog Archive » Wednesday’s Weekly Reader // Aug 21, 2008 at 12:22 am

    […] LorraineDesign put an intriguing blog post on Wednesday’s Weekly ReaderHere’s a quick overviewShadows Never Sleep reinvents the picture book for your iPhone (or iPod Touch!)… […]

  • 2 Linden // Aug 21, 2008 at 5:20 am

    Thanks for linking to me! :) Isn’t that light doodles instructable cool? I am going to try it some day, but I don’t know if I have the right type of camera. It’s just a little SLR, although it does have a long exposure option (15 seconds). We’ll see. :)

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