Danny Garcia

Web design & content management.

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Danny Garcia I’m Danny. I work at All Promo, study at Art Center College of Design and live in Lancaster, CA. Follow me on any of the networks below to get to know me better!

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© 2009 — Danny Garcia, all rights reserved (except where cited).

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Cool Stuff

Mojo Themes

I had the wonderful opportunity to create an exclusive Tumblr theme for Mojo Themes. Check out Limon!

Stuffed under Tumblr on 04/06/10

Preserve

Preserve, an on going project to produce a permanent visual record of hand painted building signage (relinked from Jason Santa Maria).

Stuffed under Typography on 02/09/10

SublimeVideo

Get the ball rolling on HTML5 video with this sleek player that currently works best on webkit browsers. Check out that fullscreen feature. (via David Kaneda)

Stuffed under Web Development on 01/26/10

Monolingual

A great and free application that makes it easy to free up a few gigs of space by removing unnecessary language and architecture files (OS X).

Stuffed under Application on 01/21/10

Primer

A great tool to use to prepare your CSS files. (via Matthew Buchanan)

Stuffed under Web Development on 01/14/10

Humble Pied.

“One inspiring creative sharing one piece of advice, all over iChat.” I especially enjoyed Frank‘s interview — very valuable advice on working with and without clients.

Stuffed under Good on 12/30/09

App Store Expense Monitor

Nifty, free little OS X application that scans your iTunes library for apps and shows you how much you’ve spent. You might be surprised…

Stuffed under Application on 12/29/09

Rifle Paper Co.

My new favorite fancy letterhead supplier. Everything has an astounding sense of effort and devotion put into it from the playful, nostalgic designs to the screen printed style. Beautiful work here.

Stuffed under Product on 12/22/09

Project52

I’ve taken the challenge to write one article per week for a year. I might tone this down to about two a month because of the nature of my website. You should sign up!

Stuffed under Good on 12/10/09

hard graft

I love these beautifully handmade accessories for everyday items like your phone, Moleskine, and even your laptop.

Stuffed under Product on 12/04/09

The Politics of Design

World-renowned graphic designer Paul Rand (1914 – 1996) wrote on the difficulties and misunderstandings designers and businessmen have working together. It’s interesting to note how relevant this discussion is today.

Stuffed under Graphic Design on 11/24/09

Print Society

Simply put “a better way to find art.”

Stuffed under Graphic Design on 11/13/09

Adaptation Tumblr Theme

Took a few days to release a free Tumblr theme that’s now live. Enjoy!

Stuffed under Tumblr on 11/09/09

Quiet Read App

A quick click and drag saves your links for later reading with this free mac app. You know you want it.

Stuffed under Application on 11/07/09

FiftyFootShadows Desktop Collection

A very beautiful collection of images by visionary photographer John Carey. My favorite’s gotta be Pieces of the Sea.

Stuffed under Photography on 10/29/09

Internet Explorer Collection

A valuable tool for us front-end developers that makes testing for multiple version of IE just a little bit easier than before.

Stuffed under Web Development on 10/23/09

Multicolor Search Lab (Flickr Set)

Great way to do multicolor-specific Flickr image searches.

Stuffed under Web App & Tool on 10/12/09

ClickToFlash

A sweet application for Safari that will block unwanted flash from loading until you click on it. Very cool.

Stuffed under Application on 10/05/09

The Expression Engine Podcast

A new podcast that focuses on “EE news, development and community”. Created by Dan and Ryan — two well-respected EE pros.

Stuffed under Podcast on 10/01/09

A Graphic Designer’s Perspective

Brian Hennings, H&FJ designer, picks designs based on the font (instead of the traditional picking fonts for the design).

Stuffed under Graphic Design on 09/30/09

The League of Moveable Type

A collection of free, @font-face ready fonts brought together by the talented people at a good company.

Stuffed under Typography on 09/26/09

Google Chrome Frame

Help users help IE by running Chrome on it. Arguably, one of the most effective ways of dealing with IE.

Stuffed under Web Development on 09/23/09

Thin Text in Safari with Snow Leopard

Some day Safari won’t do silly stuff with your text. That would be nice!

Stuffed under Web Design on 09/22/09

10 Tips on how to think like a designer

Why? Because a designer’s profession is not just making thing pretty — it’s more about solving problems (specifically the problem of miscommunication).

Stuffed under Graphic Design on 09/21/09

Simple Google Search

What’s a better home page than google.com? This is. Created by the awesome people at Infinise Design.

Stuffed under Technology on 09/19/09

The Spectrum of Spec Work

An important article by Creative Soapbox that outlines the definition of speculative work and why it shouldn’t be supported within the creative industry.

Stuffed under Graphic Design on 09/16/09

DIY iPhone Paper Dock

Why pay fifty stinkin’ bucks for an Apple Dock when you can build your own out of paper? Just think of the custom design possibilities! Helpful video included.

Stuffed under iPhone on 09/15/09

Glitch: Design Imperfection

Sometimes a bug is just the thing you needed to bring out some inspiration. This book is comprised of over 900 inspirational and purposefully-created glitches.

Stuffed under Design Book on 09/14/09

jQTouch

The very best mobile browser development browser built as a jQuery plugin.

Stuffed under jQuery on 09/13/09

Don’t Mind Me, I Just Work Here

A very nice collection of neat posters and artwork by artists Nick Schmitz.

Stuffed under Graphic Design on 09/13/09