Gov website named design of the year

This very simplistic govenment website has been named Design of the Year 2013. This is not website design of the year but the award from the design museum. Previous winners include the London 2012 Olympic Torch and the Plumen lightbulb so it is surprising to see a website up there, let alone a website so mild mannered and simple as this UK government website but then maybe that is the point?

www.gov.uk

The Guardian Goes Responsive

The new Guardian website has been released on beta
http://beta.guardian.co.uk/
It is now responsive and looks like it was designed for mobile only, but I do kind of like the simplicity of it

Grime Graffiti

How do you graffiti London without causing a mess? Well Moose Curtis, a renowned British clean artist has managed just that by transforming Southbank with his artworks using some elbow grease and Flash cleaning products. Featuring up to 5,000 images, Moose and his team will spend around 150 hours creating the images by cleaning the dirt and dust from some of the Southbank’s surfaces.

Bing overtakes yahoo search

A while ago I saw the film "Source Code" and while it was an OK film what amused me was a reviewer saying that the most unbelievable thing in the film was that someone was using the search engine Bing. However news is that Bing search engine has now overtaken Yahoo search engine.

Whilst this may not be saying much it is interesting that  Bing gained 3.1% of market share while Yahoo lost 1.5% and Google lost 0.7%. Google still has the lion's share of 65 percent share however!

The Bing interface is actually quite nice and has some amazing images.  The problem is google is just too integrated into me now to ever think of being unfaithful

Bing

Thanks, Steve

After the sad news of Steve Jobs passing on the 5 October I found this very touching design named just "Thanks, Steve".

The logo was created as a tribute by Jonathan Mak Long, a 19-year-old designer living in Hong Kong where it incorporates Jobs' silhouette into the bite of the Apple logo.

image to css

img to css
Here is a site that I have just found that converts an image to html and css. It is an interesting concept but not one I think I would necessarily use as there is so much extra code and really I don't think using images in sites in the right place is a problem. However I am impressed with how it works

below is an example of the FF logo in code