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If you like cars at all, or if you appreciate cool design, you have to check this out.

If you’re at all interested in the often delicate interplay between design and typography you should check out Cameron Moll’s recent post.

For a closer look at Type City (which Moll refers to), check out the gallery at Veer. Also, if you have a free Veer account you can download Type City wallpaper here. I’ve been using the “Basilica” on my desktop and phone for a few weeks now.

So the new designs for the British currency seem to be all the rage in the design community these days, and they are quite striking, check them out at the Royal Mint.

For an amusing comparison between the new UK currency and the recently released $5 dollar bill, check out typography.com.

On the issue of money, it’s fascinating that coins have never really taken off here in the States, but in the UK they’re huge. If you travel to the UK then you’ll know what I mean simply by the weight, and musical qualities of your pockets.

I finally got around to upgrading to the latest version of WordPress (2.5) tonight. It was pretty painless and well worth it. The folks at Happy Cog redesigned the admin interface and it’s much improved. After the upgrade I’m feeling like I need to go through and clean out a bunch of crap (themes & plugins) that DreamHost laid down during the initial install and setup. Anyway, if you’re a WordPress user you should check it out.

Here are a couple of things that I stumbled upon this week in the aftermath of SXSWi. I’m not sure exactly where I found them. Probably through twitter or someone’s blog, but they somehow made it into delicious. Anyway, check them out.

• Design Eye for South By - SXSW 2008
• SXSW Interactive 2008 - a photoset on Flickr

One of the days I’m going to make it to SXSWi. I’m sure that by the time I do it will have become completely irrelevant.

Over the last several weeks there has been an interesting debate/discussion/conversation brewing related to the current state of web design. Some lament the absence of truly great work on the web. Some seem to agree with these conclusions, and a number of others do not. As a developer, and not a designer, I tend to agree more with the second set of folks. Either way though, I would highly recommend reading all of these posts to anyone who is involved in web design/development or interested at all in the subject.

I have been trying to get a little more disciplined about keeping track of web sites that I find inspiring. I spend so much time building web applications that I often find it necessary to step back and refresh myself a bit with others work. I’m NOT a designer, but I appreciate great design. I’m more of a nuts and bolts guy that spends a lot of time working on the plumbing of highly interactive and dynamic web applications. Anyway, here are some sites that I stumbled across this week that I think look fabulous (you can also find these in my delicious bookmarks).

Lokesh Dhakar’s new blog is beautiful. I love the simple elegance. I also really love that the navigation on the right remains in place as you scroll the page.
(via SimpleBits)

The following two links are evidently some mockups that were done for The Internet Movie Database. It is always refreshing to see such great layout when there is actually a lot of stuff to put on a page. I also really like the contrast between rounded and non-rounded corners. (via thebignoob)

http://justwatchthesky.com/imdb/

http://justwatchthesky.com/imdb/profile.html