Dusk To Dawn — a dark theme that melds old-style organic ornaments with modern design and typography, originally developed exclusively for WordPress.com and it’s received great positive feedback — is now available in the official WordPress Themes Directory.
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Vertical Rhythm Project
A project to link the aesthetic and discipline of modernist poster designs to the world of digital and dynamic grids, manifested by a series of WordPress themes, adapted from typographical posters.
Some might know already about but this is worth to get a spotlight. Vertical Rhythm is a really cool project by Edit / Nitzan Hermon.
Unsuck Your Jargon
What terrible business jargon do you need unsucked?
Awesome writing tips over at unsuck-it.com, by the fine folks at Mule Design. Go read it, mmm-kay? That’d be great.
The blog runs on WordPress, natch.
Parament Now Available for WP.org Sites
Parament — a great all-purpose theme developed exclusively for WordPress.com — is now available for use on self-hosted installations of WordPress. You can download it from the official WordPress Themes Directory.
Powering Your Design With WordPress on WordPress.tv
If you enjoyed the Powering Your Design With WordPress article in spring you can now see the presentation that inspired it on WordPress.tv courtesy of the fine folks at the Future of Web Design. Go Check it out!
And speaking of FOWD, it’ll be rolling back into London May 14th – 16th, 2012. I heard some great presentations, met some awesome people, and had a great time there in 2011. I’m sure 2012′s FOWD London will be even better.
Design Resource: Method and Craft
As a design inspiration and learning resource, I’m loving Method and Craft, including articles, videos, tips, and interviews. “It’s like looking over the shoulder of your favorite designer.”
Don’t Fear the Internet
Don’t Fear the Internet is another beautifully designed site by Jessica Hische — this one with Russ Maschmeyer. It looks to be built on top of our Toolbox theme, which is awesome.
Let’s make your theme smarter to take advantage of WordPress gallery functionality
“You don’t really need plugins to create photo galleries.” – Otto published another great post about making cool galleries without plugins. He refers Matt’s gallery as a neat example of WordPress gallery implementation.
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Tiny Screens First
320 and up by Andy Clarke takes on the notion that when using responsive design with media queries small devices load assets they don’t need. This technique uses a tiny stylesheet first, and loads larger assets only when needed.