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[ASAP] Thermoresponsive Molecular Brushes with Propylene Oxide/Ethylene Oxide Copolymer Side Chains in Aqueous Solution

Macromolecules
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00263




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[ASAP] Stereoselectivity Inversion: Isospecific Propylene Polymerization Catalyzed by Rigid Cyclic Bis(phenoxyaldimine) Titanium Complexes

Macromolecules
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00468




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[ASAP] Tailoring the Toughness of Elastomers by Incorporating Ionic Cross-Linking

Macromolecules
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00500




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[ASAP] Dynamics Transition of Polymer Films Induced by Polymer–Obstacle Entanglements on Rough Surfaces

Macromolecules
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00114




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A Silent Embrace of “The Middle Ages” Under COVID-19

Today, we have a guest post from G. Geltner, Professor of History at the University of Amsterdam and author of Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy, new from Penn Press. Geltner's book provides a critical...




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Penn Press offers free digital access during the COVID-19 pandemic

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, academic research is more important than ever and the large-scale shift to distance learning at colleges and universities around the world means students need new forms of access to content. In response to these new...




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Book promotion tips for authors during COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic and the social distancing measures enacted to combat its spread have upended our lives in countless ways. For authors publishing scholarly books this spring (and quite possibly beyond), a pressing question has emerged: how on earth am...




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Challenging Inaction, Sustaining Life: South African HIV/AIDS Activism and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Today, we have a guest post from Theodore Powers, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Global Health Studies Program at the University of Iowa and author of Sustaining Life: AIDS Activism in South Africa. Drawing on extended...




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Hot Off Penn Press: Get 40% off plus free shipping!

We're thrilled to announce our 2020 Spring Sale! With most academic conferences canceled, classes moved online, and retail options limited, we wanted to offer an easy and affordable way to buy our books. With Penn Press's SPRING SALE, U.S. customers...




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Pandemics, packing, and Penn Press: A story about higher education right now

Today we have a guest post from Sean P. Cunningham, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Texas Tech University. Here, he tells a story about how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted his teaching, and how Penn Press...




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What's new in Sketch?

This month, we're introducing the option to export assets directly from Cloud and bringing a new Prototyping feature to the Mac app.




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The evolving design of the Coronavirus

The podium placard has been the silent messenger of the daily Coronavirus briefings.




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Using CSS to Control Text Selection

CSS lets you control how text selection behaves and appears on your pages.




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Alpine.js

The JavaScript framework that's used like jQuery, written Like Vue, and inspired by TailwindCSS.




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Inside the redesign of 'Fast Company' magazine

As creative director, I find it important to continually evolve our look- it keeps us fresh and energized about design.




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Cesium Fonts

I always felt that our Vitesse typeface, an unusual species of slab serif, would take well to an inline.




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New Identity for Esprit by Pentagram

Established in 1968, Esprit is a fashion brand that designs, manufactures, and retails clothing, footwear, accessories, jewelry, and even housewares.




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Are you using SVG favicons yet? A guide for modern browsers.

You should be using SVG favicons. They're supported in all modern browsers right now.




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Your dark mode toggle is broken

With more and more sites gaining support for dark mode and adding very pretty toggles to their design, it's important to implement them correctly.




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A systems view of brand design

Rebranding does not happen overnight; it's a steep and long process to transform from one brand to the next.




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Color Theme Switcher

Last year, the design gods decided that dark modes were the new hotness. "Light colors are for suckers", they laughed,.




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Responsive grids and how to actually use them: common UI layouts

How to use the right responsive grid and UI layout based on your design goals.




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How I Redesigned My College's Students Application

This case study is a personal project and the output is solely a work of my research and design.




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Cuomo's PowerPoints are endearingly primitive, so this designer redid them

Pentagram partner Giorgia Lupi takes a crack at redesigning the PowerPoints that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo features in his daily press briefings.




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Identifying Generational Gaps in Music

This is a music challenge, testing how well you recognize historic hits.




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Selection in CSS

In this article, I will go through everything about selection in CSS.




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Best blog designs I want to steal everything from

As I was going through rebuilding my blog, I spent a lot of time looking at other people's sites trying to get inspiration.




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Exciting Things on the Horizon For CSS Layout

This past week has brought a few announcements from browser vendors of some exciting things that might have a big impact on CSS layout.




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Morphing Gooey Text Hover Effect

Three gooey morphing hover effects using SVG filters for menu links based on a demo by Graham Pyne.




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Creating a Gauge in React

Let's embark on a journey. At the end of this journey, we'll have created a gauge component in React.js.




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COVID-19: the ultimate Design Thinking use case

During times such as these, eager designers and creatives can’t help but see opportunities for improvement.




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Designing Emotional UI

When it comes to digital products, many people want to interact with digital devices the same way they interact with other people.




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Faking 3D Elements with CSS

Although not always practical, creating the illusion that some of your web elements are "3D" can be a fun experiment.




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Edoardo Smerilli

Edoardo Smerilli is a film director based in Bologna, Italy. As multidisciplinary director, he combine cinema, comics, VFX and CGI.




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Bringing Together Two Creative Communities

We're excited to announce that we are welcoming Creative Market into the Dribbble family.




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Wonder Blocks: on the creation of Khan Academy's Design System

When we embarked on creating our design system, we unearthed over 50 kinds of buttons and links and 100+ instances of style definitions for type.




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32 Design Differences between iOS and Android Apps

Adapting an app’s design to another platform is crucial. But what exactly sets design for iOS and Android apart? Let’s see.




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Unleash your inner Damien Hirst with Snapchat's new filter

It is highly unlikely that you or I will ever be wealthy enough to acquire a piece of art from Damien Hirst.




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Designer Slack Communities.

A collection of Slack communities for designers around the world.




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A Complete Guide to CSS Functions

Like any other programming language, CSS has functions.




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So You've Written a Bad Design Take

So you've just written a blog post or tweet about why wireframes are becoming obsolete, the dangers of "too accessible" design.




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Design System Interview Questions

At the beginning of every engagement, we spend a great deal of time learning about our client's culture, politics, products, tools, and workflows.




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For many, accessibility is an unknown unknown

An unknown unknown is something you don't know you don't know. When you're just starting out with web development there are many unknown unknowns.




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Always judge a book by its cover

Weird and wonderful books judged on their covers and titles.




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Static Hoisting

Since I published my post detailing the trend towards static hosting, a question has come up: how is this different from a server and a CDN?




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YouTube Sans: The Making of a Typeface

How YouTube created a tailor-made font that doubles as a brand ambassador.




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The Pragmatic Designer: Local and Self Hosted Design Tools

How to still do efficient user research, UI design and collaborate when you can’t use Figma, Invision and all the fancy new cloud design tools.




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Does masonry belong in the CSS Grid specification?

My thoughts, a demo and a request for you to add your own comments on the CSS WG thread.




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5 exercises to level up your design skills

My design journey started four years ago when I quit my job at a children's sleep clinic to become a designer.




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Typographic Doubletakes

While good typefaces have families of carefully related styles, some of the best typography builds unexpected relationships between unrelated fonts.