• 10 things they don’t teach you in design school and except for #10 they also account for a programmer like me.
• 10 tips to avaid designer’s block
• the 10 simplest website tweaks for designers to get more clients count for many other professions as well.
• 10 tips for moving from part time to full time freelanceing is quite a good list, especially no. 6: selling templates and stock images can give you a steady and easy income.
• 10 beautiful letterpress business cards
• 10 css tricks to conquer the world and I wonder why those lists are still necessary…
• Dieter Rams ten commandments in design
• 10 designer bathrooms I take the toilette seat scale and the shower head please. kthnx.
• 10 amazing treehouses. I’d prefer a hobbit house
• 10 Antique Desks For Modern Feminine Bedrooms

After a first selection in June, Zuza presets yet another round of polish design objects from the 1950s to 1970s

I should have mentioned it here a lot earlier but roboti roboti all day and night…

Currently there’s the Schmiede taking place in Hallein, Austria (south of Salzburg) and like last year I’m attending and have a lot of fun, learn new stuff, talk with people, photograph them (or NOT, some people are really like that…) and do unexpected things. Like opening an exhibition of my experiments with a pinhole camera and instant film.

Schmiede, and my exhibition(s), is running till September 27th and you are welcome to visit us.

inspiredology featured a few office webdesigns which immediately reminded me of two pictures I took during last year’s Schmiede.

Both pictures are under the creative commons, so if anyone wants to use them for a design I’d be happy to hear about.

Sayaka was born in Japan and studying in the Netherlands for a few years now. The two things from her design-gallery that made me smile where the
apple cup and the fortuneteller cup.

I the comments there came a topic up, screenshots. Here at pp I don’t force anyone to upload screenshots. I usually do them myself and even from those that are uploaded I replace many because I think this or that element needs some focus.

Automatic screenshots are no solution for three simple reasons:

1. They fail on most flash websites
2. I select what’s important
3. Most times I have more than only one screenshot.

The right sidebar is a bit broader and moved a bit left to make space for bigger thumbnails. The latest comments were removed for now and there are five posts now.

Any comments on the new look? Alex?

The old software, expression engine, was not that flexible like the new one will be. You can expect interesting new features, easier submission, integration of external webservices and other stuff.

There will be a newsletter pretty soon, you can already subscribe to it.

I guess you want to know a few things about the new owner: I have clearly no talent for webdesign, though my first steps on the internet were on OSWD, but I’m a good developer and love good design. My plans for plasticpilots are giving it a new software next week putting a lot of time into it to get it living again. The new software will be custom but open source and you can find it at GitHub. In a few weeks you will be able to use that software for your own portfolio.

I hope that everyone will enjoy the new plasticpilots and it will become a vivid source for inspiration again like it was earlier. If you have ideas, suggestion etc for plasticpilots, please let me know and send a mail to tomk32@gmx.de