Interactive Media Group

Robert Bullivant of Bullivant Gallery is Hahnemühle’s only certified Fine Art printer in the Saint Louis Region. His studio offers high quality solutions for artist, photographers and commercial clients. Bullivant Gallery is located in the heart of Grand Center. www.bullivantgallery.com

Enjoy this month’s installment of the best stuff we have seen around the web (and the Maryville University website)!

Adobe Edge Web Fonts
Submitted by: Eric
Web fonts offering similar to Google Web fonts.

Vagrant
Submitted by: Eric
Create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments.

AppFog
Submitted by: Eric
Easy to setup, private servers for development purposes. Allows you to easily create a server running Java, PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails and more.

HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know – Part 1
Submitted by: Eric

The Tiny Concert Series at Maryville University
Submitted by: Michael
Here is the first installment in this ‘just for fun’ concert series.

Hunting for Dinosaur Food
Submitted by: Michael
The resources at the Missouri Botanical Garden are a tremendous help to Maryville University students. Especially botany students studying in the dead of winter in St. Louis.

Time Capsule Class
Submitted by: Michael
Students are nearly set to walk across the graduation platform and one University Seminar class reunites four years after starting at Maryville University to open a time capsule they sealed up as first-year students.

Here are a few of the best things our team has found this month:

Style Tiles
Submitted by: Kate
A communication helper for web designers

Not Just Pretty: Building Emotion Into Your Websites
Submitted by: Kate
Thoughts on implementing emotion in web design

Subtle Patterns
Submitted by: Kate
A great resource for designers look for subtle patterns too use in their design

Complete List of Web Accessibility Tools
Submitted by: Eric

Tiny Tiny RSS
Submitted by: Eric
Self-hosted RSS aggregator to replace Google Reader since it’s shutting down.

Stately
Submitted by: Eric
Symbol font that makes it easy to create a map of the US with HTML and CSS

Wealth Distribution Infographic
Submitted by: Michael
An incredible example of infographics at their best

Mr. Wolfdog
Submitted by: Michael
A brilliant new marketing campaign is born

Every month, we as a group, encounter tons of cool stuff on the web. This link roundup is just the tip of the iceberg for some of the cool stuff we’ve seen in February.

Creativity/Design

MakeXYZ
Submitted by: Kate
This is a 3d printer search engine. Get your 3d model printed by a person or print shop near you. Don’t have a model? You can make something easily on tinkercad.com or just buy a 3d printer pen and make creations in mid-air: http://www.the3doodler.com/

Golden Ratio Typography Calculator
Submitted by: Kate
Discover the perfect typography for your website.

The difference between good theft and bad theft when it comes to creativity
Submitted by: Adam

3 Paths Towards a More creative life
Submitted by: Adam

Increasing Effectiveness starts in the morning
Submitted by: Adam

Photoshop CS6 Creative Cloud Update December 2012 – What’s New?
Submitted by: Katrina
Check out some of the cool new features of Photoshop CS6.

How to Become a Prolific Writer
Submitted by: Michael
An interesting, if atypical path to making lots and lots of words.

Development

Code.org
Submitted by: Eric
A site dedicated to growing computer programming education.

jQuery Learning Center
Submitted by: Eric
Tutorials for getting started with jQuery (usage and development).

Web Essentials Visual Studio extension
Submitted by: Eric
A tool to help web developers get more modern functionality/support in Visual Studio (i.e. Sass, Less, Coffeescript, etc).

16 Ridiculously Impress CSS3 & HTML5 Experiments
Submitted by: Eric
Some cool experiments with the latest web technologies.

Misc Web Stuff

40+ WordPress keyboard shortcuts you should know
Submitted by: Eric
Keyboard shortcuts while working in the text editor. This includes the basics of bold, italics, underline, along with others I had no idea about: h1-h6 tags, alignment, unordered and ordered lists, etc.

Firefox OS
Submitted by: Eric
A cool take on the mobile OS from Mozilla. Applications for the OS are made with HTML and Javascript.

Outbox
Submitted by: Eric
A really cool service that picks up your snail mail from your house and digital scans it and makes it available online for you. They will also deliver things that you need delivered.

Can I Stream It
Submitted by: Eric
A service to find tv shows and movies online.

Model Mothers
Submitted by: Michael
A stunning photography gallery of portraits capturing female models with their mothers, this is remarkable photography and presentation.

Science

Microryza
Submitted by: Kate
A kickstarter type site for funding scientific research.

Our team spends a lot of time building and making and fixing, and in the process (and also because it is just a part of who we all are), we find a lot of beautiful or useful things.

Each month we want to share a handful of the best things we have found. Things that might inspire or help you in your work.

Let us know what you think, and let us know what you want to see more of: what we should keep our eyes open for, our ears to the digital ground for.

Easy on the Eyes
a few of the most stunning pieces of media we’ve seen recently…

Two Fires Short Documentary
A gentle, almost meditative look into the lives of two artists.  I love how the camera quietly ‘notices’ so many details and brings a deep and layered richness to the story of these two people. (KB)

Snow Fall
A glimpse into the future of multimedia storytelling (and the most accessible, understandable animation detailing how avalanches happen you will ever see). (MD)

Growing is Forever
Giant redwoods play the starring role in this [three minute] film. The creators description tugs at me: ‘This is my best attempt to capture the reverence I feel when in the presence of these giants.’  I think that definitely comes through in the video. (KB)

Stuff You Wish You Knew Existed
some useful sites or gear that might not be on your radar yet…

Data: Lots and Lots of Data
Increased public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. (EJ)

Ostrich Pillow
The ostrich pillow is the ultimate napping tool (‘neither a pillow, nor cushion, bed or garment’).  I love seeing products where the designers have taken risks.  I would totally use this on an airplane – if I was feeling bold that is! (KB)

Free Romantic Fonts just in time for Valentine’s Day
Free fonts you can use on  Valentine’s Day crafts or websites that need a romantic feel.  There are a lot of nice fonts in this list that could be used for any type of project so don’t be scared away by the romantic-ness of it all. (KB)

Fun
generally doesn’t need a tagline description…

Foldify iPad App
Cool iPad app that let’s you create 3d figures and print them.  Looks like a great way to spend a rainy afternoon and a nice way to use technology to make physical objects. (KB)

Pirate Talkin’
From APIHub, I created a fun plugin for WordPress that translates English into words spoken by a Pirate. (EJ)

On the Spinach
This illusrator’s take on the classic Popeye figure continues the culture-wide fascination of retrofitting superheros of yesteryear for today. (MD)

Geek Corner
where, it turns out, some of the coolest kids do, in fact, hang out…

People Movin
A beautiful visualization of migration flows across the world. (KB)

API Hub
A place to publish, discover and consume APIs. (EJ)

That Breadcrumb is Hot!
Coding a Graceful Breadcrumb Navigation Menu In CSS3 (We used this on the Commencement site: http://www.maryville.edu/commencement). (EJ)