Today our latest project went live.

Ribbonology is an online retailer of beautiful ribbons, giftwrap and fabrics.

Check it out!

Designed by Brazilian artists Fernando and Humberto Campana, the Banquete Chair has managed to bag the honor of being the world’s most expensive stuffed Panda Furniture.

We love this freaky, but (in our opinion) slightly overpriced panda chair.

The Banquete Chair with Pandas is priced at $75,000. Get yours here

Panda pillow. Mmmmmmmmmmm. Zzzzzzzzzzz.

Get yours here

We love this PandaRama Bag. Get yours here

Bizarre. But tasty!



Apparently the work of Japanese chef Ken Kawasumi, whose other rice-y creations include Van Gogh's Sunflowers and Pikachu. Nice.

CSS is changing and a demo at the Future of Web Design conference shows how CSS 3 will let designers take advantage of some nifty techniques like shadows and transitions. In terms of browser support, it seems like Safari is leading the way.

According to one of the demo-ers, Elliot Jay Stocks, Web designers should take advantage of new advancements to progressively enhance content today; as long as the focus remains on user experience, other browsers aren't going to know they are missing a few rounded corners.

"With new technologies like web fonts and forthcoming versions of HTML and CSS, it's even harder to keep up with the numerous browsers and devices out there. And that's okay."

Read the full idsgn article here.

Yum Yum. Some great wonky pandas there too.

All 44 US Presidents in Panda format. Made by an 'Artist'.

See all 44 Presidents here

As always, Nixon gets our vote...

Just what every dog wants.



Get yours here..

At the risk of sounding like typeface nerds, we are sad that Ikea has chosen to drop its iconic Futura catalogue font.

Ikea has always been a design-led beacon in an otherwise homogeneous corporate market and whilst we understand that economic considerations always win out over style and form, we lament the passing of the Futura font from the world's second most published book after the bible.

Full story: http://www.idsgn.org/posts/ikea-says-goodbye-to-futura/

We love you, Rubberduckzilla!

Just reading this today. We've always been aware of the project, but now that we've read about it we're pretty amazed.

We encourage you to read more: http://laptop.org

Pretty good website too. Thumbs up from the Panda.

Interesting article over on Web Designer Wall. According to a survey, users of websites are becoming more design conscious:

"The demand for good web design is increasing, revealed a recent Webcopyplus online poll. Almost 25% of web users indicated "poor visual presentation" as the number one element that drives them away from websites. Only 6.6% of web users who participated in a similar 2007 online poll indicated "poor visual presentation" as the main reason to abandon a website. That equates to a 267% increase during the two-year period."

Read the rest of the article here.

As designers, we always struggle to get our work to show correctly in Internet Explorer 6. So much so, in fact, that we try not to develop for it any more.

We discovered recently that other people feel the same way.

http://www.bringdownie6.com

We wonder when IE6 will finally be phased out. Or should we stop complaining about it?

We were apparently the only people left who were not on Twitter, so we caved in and signed up.

You can follow us here:

http://twitter.com/gopandadesign

Yay! We just add the new Panda Plane to the Fun Stuff section.

Panda Plane

Download it. Fold it. Have Fun.

The site goes live today. It's been a long haul, but it's done now.

Take a look and let us know what you think.