‘Design’ Archive

Make Your Own Books with Blurb Software August 3, 2010 No Comments

You may already be making books and cards using the built-in capabilities of iPhoto. But there are other sources out there for making books too. Blurb is a piece of software you download to your computer. It’s for Mac and Windows. Then you paste images and text, you can resize images, you can format text, [...]

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Handmade Wooden iPod/iPhone Dock October 29, 2009 No Comments

I’m always interested in the intersection between electronics and craft. I think it’s the mix of low-tech–the traditions that have been followed for centuries–and high-tech–the newest computer technologies. I do a lot of looking at the high-tech/low-tech mix on Etsy, the website for buying and selling handmade items and craft supplies. Here’s my latest find. [...]

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Squarespace for easy, gorgeous websites–and you don’t have to be an HTML geek August 5, 2009 No Comments

I recently met Erica Reitman, the marketing director of Squarespace, and I’m very impressed with what the company is doing. Based on their info page, Squarespace has been around since 2003, but it’s only recently that I’ve been reading about them and hearing their sponsorship of various podcasts I listen to regularly. The idea of [...]

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