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A Natty Narwhal Wallpaper

Mar 23, ’11 5:27 PM

A Natty Narwhal Wallpaper

So I figured it was about time to get this little baby out in the wild. I have been sitting on it for a little while, making occasional tweaks here and there, but you can only do that for so long before your brain starts to run out of your ears.

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10 Free Classy Thin Fonts

Jan 7, ’11 4:20 PM

Thin or 'hairline' fonts lend an elegant, classy air to design

One of the basic fundamental elements of good graphic design is the intelligent use of contrast: light and dark, big and small, serif and sans-serif, square and round, condensed and expanded and so on.

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Desktopography 2010 Now Available

Dec 22, ’10 5:55 PM

The Edge II by Lionel Charpentier

The desktopography wallpaper project is something that I’ve been following with delight now for quite a few years and I was, therefore, rather happy to discover that this year’s exhibition has finally been released.

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8 Excellent Fonts For Screen and Print

Jun 7, ’10 8:00 PM



Well, it’s been a few months since my last post about fonts and typefaces and since then I’ve done a lot more exploring into the vast world of typefaces and returned with some very interesting finds, particularly when it comes to screen-ready display fonts.

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Brew, anyone?

May 4, ’10 12:44 AM

Dedicated to those who love to sit with friends and a brew

This is dedicated to those who, like me, love to sit with good friends and enjoy a hot beverage or two. Without coffee, the world would be a different place indeed. For a start, I doubt I’d get up in the mornings.

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Nautilus – When Imagination Becomes Reality

Apr 9, ’10 4:27 PM



Regular readers of this site will remember a few months back when I made a post entitled Deconstructing Nautilus and Rebuilding It Better. It proved to be rather… controversial. Some of you hated my redesign proposals, others loved it. Forward a couple of months later and some rather clever man has took my mine and DanRabbit’s Nautilus dreams and made them reality, or as near as we can currently get.

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Workflow and Upload: two new button concepts for Lucid

Mar 29, ’10 12:58 PM



I present to you, the humble reader, two button concepts that I’ve designed to fill up that newly created titlebar space in Ubuntu Lucid: the Workflow button and the Upload button.

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Welcome to Design By Izo

Jan 4, ’10 10:53 PM

Welcome aboard and Merry Browsing! Please bear with me whilst I upload, organise, beautify my portfolio and theme the site to my extremely strict self-image standards.

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