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Desktop Mag is a magazine only available in Australia and New Zealand. This month is present a showcase on urban collective.The issue is call Olimpic Spirit. It's asked for designer to submit work incorporating their country's colours or favourite sporting event to celebrate the 2004 olympic Games, because time after time we see how a sporting event such as the Olympics can be highly inspirational on and off the sports field. I have submitted my poster on this contest. The original size of this poster is cm.70x40.

CSS Zen Garden 126 alias C-Note. Few words for the 100 dollar's intaglio, for me it's wonderful. Good "color scheme", good fonts choice. I think that is very hard find a work so original. Compliments to Brian Williams for the good work.

Today I've published a tutorial: How to realize custom shapes in 10 steps.The custom shapes are vectorial, and they can be used to realize: stickers and stencil. This is the first of a tutorial series, I hope you like!

I'm preparing 4 posters for a contest between friends, when they'll be finished I think that you can see them up :Gig
If you want see a preview can go to this Link. The originals arrive to measure to 50 x70 cm.

Today I've finished the set of photoshop brushes. Their name is Spaghetti Vintage, I think that it's the most appropriate name.I've certainly chosen spaghetti for my patriotism : Joke!! I've chosen spaghetti because maybe when I was a child, I loved that famous series Spaghetti Western, but using old west as theme wasn't good. I hope that they're right for your work. If you liked, write and give me your opinion. Cheers Emi..

Thanks always to my best friend Gabriele Magurno for the support.

Another template is available for download. I think that this is beautiful and functional. It is a liquid layout which does not lose his formatting either to a resolution of 640x480. Also the popup inside are accessible ( more info for the accessibile pop up are here ).
For minimize the flickering on IE6 i used the Fast Rollovers Without Preload.

Layout preview are available here.
You can find the rar archive on the download area.

NOTE: You are free to use the template without the images and graphics inside. All the images are property of: Metrostation Design.

Internet Explorer is an ugly beast! But in the writing of the css code, the bug that hatred more of all is: the flickering of the images. How I read time back:

The flickering is a funny thing IE does when you have it set to always check for newer versions of stored pages.

Luckily this problem, disturbs only the the server and the developers Rarely that a visitor goes from the your website because disturbed by the img flickering. For example: this website suffer of flickering, it disturb? For reasons of my poor knowledge, I didn't think before to this problem.To the next version I'll think, of course. If you do not know this bug, then it is better that you read these two articles:

Minimizing CSS Flickering
Fast Rollovers Without Preload

Very interesting. Aiga released about 50 symbols which can be free download.
This system of 50 symbol signs was designed for use at the crossroads of modern life: in airports and other transportation hubs and at large international events. Produced through a collaboration between the AIGA and the U.S. Department of Transportation, they are an example of how public-minded designers can address a universal communication need.

NOTE - ONLY FOR WINDOWS USER: To extract the files correctly, StuffIt Deluxe v8.0 or superior for win is necessary.

About two years back, I realized many opensource flashclips. Today, I want signal one of them. It's a flash menu, which can be adapted to many uses. Flashmx Italy, rewarded him as movie of the week. Cool Corporate is a simply menù, it to be used to replace two menù.

NOTE: The clip uses a bitmap font. At times, in flash the small fonts can appear blurry.To know, how to solve the problem go to this link.

In the download area I added another template realized entirely in DTD Strict. You can see the preview to this link. The container is elastic and graphics suits to all the contents: paragraphs, images. The template is adapted as: small personal portfolio or any use from your fantasy.Enjoy it!

As promised in August, for the photoshop lovers, this month, the fourth set of the serie arrive. Now the brushes are dedicated to the world of the vintage cinema from the 50's to the 70's.The collection will contain about 20/25 brushes you can use to your pleasure. When I'll have finished you will find them in the download area. If you do not know the others sets, can download at this link.

Born of an earlier era, the Cuts and Caps herein belong to a time when the easiest way to mass-produce an image was to create it in metal for printing. Ornaments and intial caps were cast in type metal; larger illustrations were etched into metal plates and mounted type-high to create blocks called cuts. Commercial type foundries built their own collections of these images, publishing them alongside their typefaces in specimen books.

Download the Cuts and Caps is free!

Ciao a tutti! I return from Holidays very happy. I'm between official design of Css Zen Garden with 60's Life Style and Medioevo. other happening signed: Metrostation Design.

60's Life Style review:

Single-handedly increasing the mammalian head count of the Zen Garden, the wild header alone is worth the price of admission to Emiliano’s Zoo.

Medioevo review:

Kind of Gothic, kind of Classical, all Italian.

Many thanks to Dave for have estimated my works.