Lovely behind-the-scenes on how the Guardian iPod app slowly evolved.

"Unlike the iPhone and Android apps, which are built on feeds from the website, this one actually recycles the already-formatted newspaper pages. A script analyses the InDesign files from the printed paper and uses various parameters (page number, physical area and position that a story occupies, headline size, image size etc) to assign a value to the story. The content is then automatically rebuilt according to those values in a new InDesign template for the app.

It’s not quite the “Robot Mark Porter” that Schulze and Jones imagined in the workshops, but it’s as close as we’re likely to see in my lifetime. Of course robots do not make good subs or designers, so at this stage some humans intervene to refine, improve and add character, particularly to the article pages. Then the InDesign data goes into a digital sausage machine to emerge at the other end as HTML." Niiiiice.

"Slammer gives you any grid you want, anywhere you want: Typographic Grids, Golden Sections, Fibonacci series or Rule of Thirds. Thats not all, Slammer also has Rulers, Crosshairs, Magnifier, Measurements & Screenshots. Slammer is a must have for any designer."

"All yeahs in a baby are always the same height." Crazy markup preprocessor of the day, with suitably entertaining documentation.

Generates a tiny file to do the most basic things, from the looks of it.

"I missed this earlier in the year. In their issue 923, Domus magazine published this hidden illustration of ‘Miss Web 2.0’. Imagine planning it." I daren't. That's amazing.

"The baseline grid. Oh yes, the baseline grid. Let's be honest this is the sort of thing you know you need to know about. And you do know about, you know, sort of. But. Do you really know about it? Of course you do if you work on a magazine or a newspaper, but when was the last time you used one? I almost re-taught myself how to use a baseline grid. I certainly re-read all about it and it pretty much saved my life." Ben, on the details of The Paper. Good stuff in here.

"The ultimate resource in grid systems."

"Flare is an ActionScript library for creating visualizations that run in the Adobe Flash Player. From basic charts and graphs to complex interactive graphics, the toolkit supports data management, visual encoding, animation, and interaction techniques. Even better, flare features a modular design that lets developers create customized visualization techniques without having to reinvent the wheel." Oh, that could come in useful

A neat summary of what's available out there; I use Blueprint for prototyping, but it's interesting to see what else is available - particularly the more stripped-down frameworks.

"In this template you'll find shared layers (masters) for a title page, wireframe, wireframe/storyboard hybrid, simple storyboard, and storyboard with notes. Column guides and a regular grid make it easy to use and keep your layout tight." Nice .graffle templates for UX designers.

"The result of the workshop is Dear Lulu, a fantastic and imaginative resource that puts digital printing to the test through a Do-It-Yourself presentation." Testing digital printing by creating a book that's full of metrics and challenges.

Lovely little Photoshop jsx script. Might tweak it to make the horizontal lines a config option - I've hacked it to disable them for now.

"Prince is a computer program that converts XML and HTML into PDF documents."

Impressive (if fixed-width) grid-based CSS framework. Looks natty; I should check it out, I feel.

The project.ioni.st archives are very, very beautiful

Beautfiul, invigorating design for a website/blog.

Pentagram's Time redesign launched; here's their blogpost on it. Really like the design of the contents page especially.

Mark Boulton and Richard Rutter knock one out of the park with their SxSW presentation. Awesome.

Might come in handy should I ever get one of them widescreen notebooks.

Very true. This, and a beautiful piece of print design I saw this weekend, are giving me _all_ sorts of ideas...

Havard alumn magazine, online. Rather beautiful.

A blog about typesetting and bookmaking. Delightfully written.

"Conservatism with attitude", apparently. Still, I like the layout.

Lovely web design resource; clear, clean, and some good ideas.

explanation of how a beautiful grid-based site design was done, with sample grid as background image