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Finishing Touch » Hobby House

On August 5, 2010 By

by Miyoko Ohtake Retire­ment often offers cou­ples more time together, but when Ren? Menten and Mikey Bienkens left the work­ing world, they built a house that empha­sized their indi­vid­ual activities.

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Finishing Touch » Flemish Farmhouse Kitchen

On August 2, 2010 By

by Jaime Gross For this farm­house in the Flem­ish town of Out­gaar­den, the Bel­gian archi­tects 51N4E were charged with design­ing a new kitchen and adja­cent stor­age space. They decided to split their allot­ted bud­get thusly: 70 per­cent of the bud­get would go to 30 per­cent of the space, while 30 per­cent of the bud­get would go to 70 per­cent of the space.

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Creating a Neon Blink Effect for your Forms using CSS3 and jQuery

On July 16, 2010 By

How cool will it be to have a glow­ing blink effect behind your input boxes in a form with­out using Flash? Well thanks to the bright new kid on the block, CSS3, spruced up with a bit of jQuery! In this tuto­r­ial, I will show you how to build a nifty effect to enhance your forms. Note: In this tuto­r­ial, we have made use of @-webkit-keyframes which works only in browsers using the Webkit lay­out engine like Chrome and Safari.

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40 jQuery and CSS3 Tutorials and Techniques

On July 12, 2010 By

In this arti­cle you will find a com­pre­hen­sive selec­tion of tuto­ri­als and tech­niques that make use of some excit­ing and fresh CSS3 prop­er­ties and injected this with some inno­v­a­tive jQuery. You will some truly cre­ative image galleries/sliders, a mar­velous selec­tion of inno­v­a­tive nav­i­ga­tion tech­niques, a hand­ful of orig­i­nal form solu­tions and the rest of the tuto­ri­als cover almost all aspects of web design. Hope you find them useful

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Laser Cut Coffee Stencils

On June 26, 2010 By

A dust­ing of cocoa, a bliz­zard of sugar… Tak­ing inspi­ra­tion from the rural Ice­landic land­scape, these laser cut sten­cils from Aus­tralian illus­tra­tor Megan Her­bert embrace the Scan­di­na­vian cof­fee cul­ture with unique style.

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surface view

On June 23, 2010 By

last night i was putting the fin­ish­ing touches on a new home tour in the d*s book that fea­tures a beau­ti­ful bath­room mural. i’ve never been a big mural per­son, but when i heard that the mural was actu­ally part of a “ready to roll” mural col­lec­tion that’s ready-made, i was hooked.

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Dwell on Design » Preview: Greywater Corps

On June 15, 2010 By

by Miyoko Ohtake Dwell on Design is quickly approach­ing and here at the office we’re final­iz­ing the fin­ish­ing touches and get­ting ready for our road trip down to Los Ange­les (which will surely include the req­ui­site lunch stop at In-N-Out along the 5).

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Monster Robot Chess Set Made from 100,000 LEGOS

On June 14, 2010 By

Oh, the won­der­ful world of LEGOS – we’ve seen that they can build you just about any­thing includ­ing a city ! Well, a team of LEGO enthu­si­asts just put the fin­ish­ing touches on their Mon­ster Chess set. It is made entirely of LEGOS and has robotic pieces that move on their own. The set took four peo­ple a year to fin­ish, uses a whop­ping 100,000 LEGOS and spans 156 square feet

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Monster Robot Chess Set Made from 100,000 LEGOS

On June 14, 2010 By

Oh, the won­der­ful world of LEGOS – we’ve seen that they can build you just about any­thing includ­ing a city ! Well, a team of LEGO enthu­si­asts just put the fin­ish­ing touches on their Mon­ster Chess set. It is made entirely of LEGOS and has robotic pieces that move on their own. The set took four peo­ple a year to fin­ish, uses a whop­ping 100,000 LEGOS and spans 156 square feet.

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