a little link-heavy post

Squared Circle and Flickr Collaborative Poster Project

You know, Flickr is such a small world. There's a guy on there, Ezra Caldwell, who goes by the screen name fast boy. I've been lurking his stream for over a year now. He is amazing with film, and obsessed with bikes, most recently with making them. Anyway, he's friends with the Chicago designer and cyclist Naz Hamid. Hamid is the incredibly gifted graphic & web designer who started the immensely popular The Items I Carry Flickr group (now called The Items We Carry).* His Flickr name is absenter.

Anyway, today I came across (via Olivia, one of my best Flickr buds) a little roundup that Smashing Magazine did on 50 Excellent Blog Designs. Even if you don't have a blog, this article will give you serious blog design envy. Anyway one of the blogs featured, and actually my favorite, belongs to Naz Hamid, and it appears to be fairly new. It's NZRN, and it is beautiful. Extremely simple. And therefore right up my alley, and perhaps yours too.

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*Yes, I drank the Kool-Aid and contributed to this madness: my addition is here.