“Best practices for CSS3 usage need to be hashed out in blog posts, during spare time, and outside of client projects. Coming up with creative and sensible ways to get the most out of CSS3 will require the kind of experimentation wherein developers gladly trade ten failures for a single success. Right now, there are tons of property combinations and uses out there waiting to be discovered. All we have to do is connect the dots. It’s time to get your hands dirty and innovate!”

Iceland Volcano + Canon5D + Moto Dolly + Jónsi

“Sometimes a lot of color, textures, and design elements can make a web design jump off the screen, but there are times when a minimal style it more appropriate for the content and it’s audience. A clean and minimal design gets out of the way and lets the content do the talking, and it’s a great way to give your site an elegant and sophisticated feel.”

“Brown is an earthy color that represents simplicity, friendliness, and dependability.

50 Beautifully Brown Web Designs, The Web Design Ledger

“College and university websites have a lot of roles to fill. They need to provide information for prospective students (both new and transfer), parents of students and prospective students, current students, and alumni. In many cases, they’re also the gateway to the school’s intranet and the public face for both academics and athletics. They often need to include reams of information in a way that makes everything easy to find. It’s a huge challenge.”

“Formless Content can be reflowed into different formats and not lose any intrinsic meaning. It’s content divorced from layout. Most novels and works of non-fiction are Formless.

Books in the age of the iPad, Craig Mod

From Labrador:

“Western hospitality” is taken from the upcoming album “The People’s Record” due to be released on May 12th in Europe and on May 18th in North America.

The band has travelled to Brazil for inspiration, bought records made in the 70s in Western Africa, used a percussion player from Cuba and hooked up with producer Jari Haapalainen (The Concretes, Camera Obscura, Ed Harcourt). The result is a unique mix of Swedish pop melodies and African rhythms.

“Email signatures are so easy to do well, that it’s really a shame how often they’re done poorly. Many people want their signature to reflect their personality, provide pertinent information and more, but they can easily go overboard.

The Art And Science Of The Email Signature, Smashing Magazine

An overview of the Wisdom of Crowds (WOC) theory and its relationship with the social web.