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a threadless package arrived

i ordered 3 tshirts and a hoodie from threadless.com about one and a half week ago. the stuff arrived yesterday, i’m quite happy with the quality. but i can’t really tell anything before i tested them hardcore. ;)

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another one on ie and png files

okay .. forget about PNG’s and IE. honestly, just don’t do it. it’s the easiest way. try to avoid it whenever you possibly can. if you really need transparent PNG for your website layout, make a workaround css file, check for the browser with php and load the file with url()-links to PNG8 (only 1bit [...]

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the (in)famous IE PNG bug

i spent some time researching this topic with my old friend google. here’s what i found: this is an original post at msdn about the function which is used in the following css class. #myDivClass { float:left; width:100px; height:100px; // good browsers (everything except ie) ignore this line: filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(enabled=true, sizingMethod=scale src=’images/file.png’); background-image:url(images/file.png)!important; // underscore makes [...]

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BNZ15: warm up

last sunday, i discussed the whole “after-fred” era of the buenzli party for realtime and streamed media productions (or something like that) with andry in solothurn. there isn’t much going to change from the previous era, maybe a little genox-style addition.. i already got some previews ready: the flyer the sticker the shirt that’s what [...]

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“a drop of truth”

finished my work on sketches for a friend’s wife. she’s a storyteller woman and needs some print stuff. these are some first sketches for a postcard series. the main theme is “a drop of truth” which is used in german, as a basic description of tales and fairy tales etc. she calls herself “fairy tale-pours” [...]

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print industry and the age of digital workflows

it’s impossible to think that the print industry could work without computers nowadays. it makes lots of things easier, especially data handling etc. the only problem is .. lots of people don’t really understand what they’re doing. for example, the last job i worked on was a 20 pages booklet thingie for a local event [...]

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tutorial: beveling an iPod’s touch-weel

i wrote my first tutorial on how to bevel some nice iPlastic interface buttons, similar to the iPod touchweel. it lacks good english and the screenshots are in german – obviously cause im swiss-german. well, you should get the point, anyhow. it’s a beginner tutorial showing you the very basics. all you have to do [...]

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the corporate identity hell

from the philosophical ranting dept. i’m a lot confronted with the aspects of corporate design and it’s inclusion into existing corporate identities of companys and/or other organisations. (fucking subjective:) corporate design is cool if you can start something from scratch or if the already existing base is useful to expand and build upon. sometimes tho, [...]

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flying high

a short review of the past days: what a week. feels like i’m driving on high octane fuel. i finished 2 pages: pgm.ch – my company’s new website and netzklang.ch – a website for a project i’m working on with a bunch of nice swiss netlabel people. there’s not a lot of content on the [...]

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terminus1525

stumbled across this site: terminus1525 while looking at references for a cms called drupal. very cool layout. i like this minimal use of eyecandy stuff. instantly fell in love …

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