I know the feeling of creating a magazine, this semi stop motion film shows the process rather well, although you can’t feel the stress that comes along…
The footer on this blog already mentions the use of a technique called Progressive Enhancement. But even more important for a website is proper typography. And with typography I don’t mean usage of snobbish fonts (although I must say the Gill Sans looks great), it means using proper font-sizes, line-height, colors etc. Text is there for reading, not for filling up the page. This means that the text has to be optimally readable.
Imposing that the computer screen you’re currently reading from is about 50cm from your eyes, the font-size should have the same size as a book or magazine at just 30cm. This means that font-size of paragraphs should be at least 17pt big.
More on this subject on the Information Architects blog
What to do with your old printer? Make art! That’s what Xavier Antin did by placing several printers in a row, each printing a single color on the paper. The results are probably similar to those of the first color printing office.
Although I think that magazines and newspapers are the only media that are fitted to communicate through large infographics (like the Deutschlandkarten I posted earlier), the website Good.is show some fantastic infographics (and occasionally a bad one) on all kinds of subjects.
Let’s be honest, who wants a white iPhone? Nobody. But this transparent modification is really cool. No way Apple will ever produce it (although similarities with the Cube and iMacs 3G).