Undoubtedly a favorite book of mine. The Zombie Survival Guide is a great handbook on how to survive in the event of a zombie epidemic. Filled with excellent do’s and don’ts that are going to help you stay alive!
I’m also going to check out World War Z. Wonder what the Z stands for, mmm?
After much planning, thinking and a little swearing I’m thrilled to share my new portfolio site with you. It features design work, photography and some other goodies!
In the coming weeks, I’m going to be adding more work as well as other fun enhancements. I believe you’ll be pretty pleased with it all.
If you head over to Thunder Panda, you can print out and make your own paper zombies! How thoughtful of them. They’re super fun, but the I made one got out of control and had a run-in with Dwight. I think he’s starting to turn.
In other news, I apparently have made it a habit of posting zombie/horror-related things this week. Eh, let’s keep it up, shall we?
Commoncraft posted this funny video on zombie survival basics. They provide some great do’s and don’ts on encounters too. Lookout!
Also, in case you weren’t for sure, I heart zombies.
Saw this beauty over the weekend. It’s an intriguing film about of two sets of half brothers on opposite sides of the socioeconomic fence. They all share a father, but he left one set of brothers in the dust to start a new family. The brothers all meet at his funeral and what follows is a slowly-paced, honest and sad story of revenge, family and spite.
I particularly loved a lot of the photography in the film, some of the shots of Arkansas in there were fantastic. Netflix has it, and I’d highly recommend watching.
One of the things I like the most about the OS X Dashboard is how it can help with your productivity. I wanted to share a three really handy widgets that can really help you get your designey things done quicker.
1) Lorem Ipsum
While I think you would do well to use actual copy wherever possible, sometimes it just isn’t an option. This widget can easily create a word, phrase, sentence, paragraph or custom length lorem ipsum phrase with just a couple of clicks. Super handy! (Download Link)
The talented and lovely Liz over at CMD+SHIFT DESIGN has a new blog post up about why she chose to freelance as a career. She also asked for answers from some other folks on why they’ve decided to freelance and I was happy to contribute.
If you’ve got a few minutes, why not crank up this interview? Jason Fried (of 37Signals fame) sits down to answer a few questions about working habits, the structure of his company and how not hiring a PR firm can be a good thing.
(via O’Reilly)
I’ve discovered this fabulous plugin called Cooliris, and have spent endless amounts of time toying with it. It’s a browser plugin that allows you to scroll through and view lots of images in a gorgeous, interactive 3D wall. Being an image and usability nerd, I’m really impressed with how it works and how simple it is to use.
You can launch a Google Image Search, browse Flickr, Facebook and lots of other websites. You can even enable your own site if you’d like. I personally was very happy to find that out, and am going to be including that in my upcoming relaunch.
Cooliris is free and works with Firefox, Safari and yes, Internet Explorer. They even have an iPhone application! So you literally have no excuse for not getting it and enjoying a new way of browsing the web.
Go have a look around their site.
Also in the coming weeks I’ll:
If I can help out on a project, or you know someone who needs a good designer or photographer, send them my way won’t you? hello [at] joshuamauldin [dot] com
(You can also get this shirt at the Chop Shop)