Top 25 Interior Design & Furniture Blogs We scoured the web looking for the best interior design and furniture blogs, and below is what we found. From large multi-writer blogs like Moco Loco to more personal fare like Gaile Guevara, the below 25 blogs (plus 5 honorable mentions) are the cream of the design crop. 1. This style website is the cream of the crop – using a gentle and creative presentation, Design Sponge serves up multiple posts every day about home design, new and innovative products and tips on home living in a modern world. 2. For a frequently updated online magazine dedicated to everything modern, give Moco Loco a visit. 3. With the tagline “Saving the world, one room at a time,” Apartment Therapy makes it very clear that it has big dreams for its readers. 4. InHabitat is a design website with a mission — to bring together design solutions that are cutting-edge, high-tech, innovative and green. 5. Just as its name implies, this website takes traditional Ikea furniture and redesigns it. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
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One size doesn't fit all 12 Personal Travel Websites That Will Make You Quit Your Day Job There are many reasons we keep ourselves from heading out into the world. Not enough money. Not enough time. I have to work on my career. The truth is that the external realities are rarely the reason we choose to stay in a job, relationship, or 30 year mortgage. Here are 12 websites filled with 12 people who decided to make that leap. 1. www.downtheroad.org Quote: “We are Tim and Cindie Travis, an ordinary American couple who decided to live out our dreams. 2. www.gonewalkabout.com Quote: “The term Walkabout comes from the Australian Aboriginal. It is at this time that one must go on walkabout. Metaphorically speaking, the journey goes on until you meet yourself. If one is lucky, after everything has been said and unsaid, one looks up and sees only one person instead of the previous two.” 3. www.moderngonzo.com Quote: “My tiny Modern Gonzo has now become a horde of inspiration from my journeys to over 50 countries (and counting) on 6 continents. 4. www.expedition360.com 5. 6. www.moxon.net
Mmmmm.....brainfood..... For those of you into social bookmarking, the best service I have found for a less traditional gender-explorative mind set would be del.icio.us, hands down. Tags like gender, transgender, feminism, and queer pull 58,473; 7,438; 44,493; and 21,378 results each (respectively). The numbers here are much higher than CiteULike, Diigo, or Furl, and the results are more accurate than Digg. I would not recommend Digg to anyone interested in queer, trans, or any gender topic, actually. Del.icio.us, despite having a name that is too involved to type out regularly (what's with all the dots?) Amazon.com: Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category: David Valentine: Books (one of my personal favorites) Tales from the Green Island - the perfect number - a fairytale (what appears to be trans fiction) Medical Therapy and Health Maintenance for Transgender Men (medical guide for health care providers)
100 Best Blogs for School Librarians School librarians, whether they work small college libraries, large research universities and departments, or elementary schools, need to stay current on the latest in technology innovation, reading lists, the publishing world, ebook trends, special project and lesson ideas, and a lot more. After all, master’s programs in library science only teach you so much, and librarianship involves constant learning. Luckily, you don’t have to think of everything all by yourself. Note: This list has been updated for 2012 with even more, current blogs. Technology If you want to keep up with your technologically advanced students, you’ll need to visit these blogs for news, trends, and product reviews about the latest tech toys. Reading Even with all of the opportunities and potential that technology brings, librarians are still committed to their books. Librarian Blogs Get a first-hand perspective of and read reviews by librarians who have tried out the new tech tools, read the latest books, and more.
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25 Must-Read Books For Designers, Typography Lovers And Freelancers | Spyre Studios You may already know that I read a lot and of course being a designer and a blogger there’s many design blogs that I follow and read on a regular basis, but there’s also a lot of books about design, usability, typography, CSS, freelancing and a boat load of other related topics out there. All these books can help make you a better designer and business owner so I thought I’d make a list of some of my favorite ones and include a short summary/quote, book authors and the topics discussed in the books. Here we go! Hope you enjoy the list! Please feel free to let me know which ones are you favorite in the comment section and of course if a book you’ve read isn’t on this list, let me know about it so I can check it out! Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook Author: Dan CederholmTopics: CSS, HTML, Design, Web-StandardsPrice: $23.09 The Elements of Typographic Style Author: Robert BringhurstTopcis: Typography, Design, StylePrice: $19.77 CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions