Category: Awareness

Eyebeam is now accepting applications for Winter/Spring 2009 Residencies. Residents receive a $5,000 stipend and 24/7 access to the Chelsea facility during their term. The application deadline for the Winter/Spring 2009 Residency season (which runs from February to June) is December 1, 2008. All applicants will be informed of their status by e-mail or phone by January 2, 2009.

Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.

There are few ways to create an online store:

* Develop an e-commerce application from scratch.
* Use a hosted e-commerce software.
* Use a ready to use downloadable / installable e-commerce application.

This page contains technical instructions on updating a theme for use with widgets. Many themes can be updated in five to ten minutes. Others will take an hour or two to get all of the kinks worked out. Some will look awful no matter what you do. This document assumes basic PHP editing skills, though you probably won’t have to write any code of your own.

Attention AWS developers! The rBuilder Appliance Creator and rBuilder Catalog for EC2 are now available to automate the assembly of software components, the creation of AMIs and the deployment of images to EC2. You will have the ability to securely integrate your AWS account credentials, allowing you to launch, manage, and retire application images for EC2 directly from within the product. Dynamic search and catalog capabilities provide a basis for future management activities directed at large scale catalogs of machine images. The beta product is free of charge to AWS developers.

Design/ers for Obama was created when Design Observer essentially asked the question, “how can graphic designers best support Barack Obama?” Our answer ended up extending the question to cover visual communicators at all levels. In addition to supporting Obama for America we jumped at the opportunity to bring the spirit of grassroots style organizing and collaboration to poster design which, to us, meant not only forming communal bonds but sharing the fruits of our efforts equally and in such a way that anyone can enjoy and benefit from (because most of us do not own our own printing presses).