Tag: tools


I bought one of these beautiful Aeon World Travel Journals for a close friend for her birthday. She and her partner are off on a traveling adventure this year, and this journal was the perfect gift.

Nice leather, not too heavy. Cream-white acid free pages of a nice stock for writing – not sure what paper weight. Includes 80 pages worth of full colour maps for places all over the world. Chose this one over the Moleskine travel journals as it’s worldwide rather than city specific.

You can buy them online here. I bought one from Passion for Paper in Parnell, would love one when I’m ready to fly away 🙂

Gridmaker

Link: Gridmaker

Punch in width, height, number of columns, width of columns, guttering and even baseline.

Grid maker takes all this information and a little more and spits out a suitable grid. You can download your grid in PNG, but it’s also demonstrated in your browser window.

Wireframes Magazine

I’ve been getting really excited about IA lately, wireframes, information heirachy and clever ways to display a lot of complex content.

I found this blog last week and have come back a couple of times to borrow ideas on wireframing techniques to suit some of what I’ve been working on.

A couple of posts I found interesting:

Uni-Form

Link: Uni-Form

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Uni-Form is an attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) and css, “modularize” it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly…

I loathe creating forms in HTML – they are my biggest peeve because there’s so much to remember in order to get it right.

Anything that helps me to ensure that my forms are useable and semantically correct get a big “Awesome” from me.