A very transparent look at all the software and services United Pixelworkers uses to ship over 1,000 t-shirts a month. I’ve done two rounds of t-shirt sales myself, and I learned quickly is that (a) there’s not much money in t-shirt sales, and (b) printing, packing, and shipping t-shirts can be a royal pain in the behind. Which is why I think it’s cool that something new United Pixelworkers is now offering is a partnership program, where you design the shirt, they sell and ship it, and you both share in the profits.

P.S. United Pixelworkers was awesome enough to donate a handful of shirts to the membership giveaway.

Horace Dediu:

Put another way: Why is it that everyone wants to copy Apple’s products but nobody wants to copy being Apple?

For the same reason there are people who cook their Thanksgiving turkey in the microwave.

This is a great review of what’s got to be one of the hottest cameras on the market right now. The RX1 is, more or less, the guts, power, and ability of a full-frame DSLR tucked into the body of a compact.

When I bought my Olympus a few months ago, one of my fears was that I’d soon feel it was out of date and that something better was available. But reading Duncan’s review of the RX1 was actually an encouragement to me that I made the right choice with the E-PL5 and Panasonic 20/1.7. Duncan is a professional photographer with so much more experience and know-how than me it’s not even funny. Yet he loves the small size of the RX1 and the fast 35mm prime that’s attached to it and hasn’t felt held back at all. In short, if he’s satisfied with his camera considering his skill level, then there’s no reason for me to be unsatisfied with my rig considering my skill level — I haven’t even come close to feeling held back by the Olympus.

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Brandon Griswold is Kickstarting a book — or rather, a letterpress printed, handmade testament to manliness:

As tough as letterpress can be, it’s strange to see it so heavily associated with things like wedding invitations and greeting cards. I mean, those are good things, but not very manly. Let’s see if we can do something about that.

Although you won’t find fine corinthian leather or green felt, magazine apps on the iPad are still some of the worst offenders when it comes to skeuomorphism getting in the way of usability. As Bryan Larrick points out:

Eschewing live text and making the text an image file preserves appearance, albeit at the expense of file size, search engine optimization, usability, and much of the ability to update content dynamically.

Enter magazines. Most magazines made the decision that preserving appearance is more important than utilizing all of the iPad’s functionality, so instead of pages loading text dynamically, a typical magazine page is one big png file.

Noah Stokes brings us our web design tip of the day. And it’s a good one.

What can you say about such men? (Thanks, Nate!)

Nice profile of Kansas City native and Dropbox co-founder and CTO, Arash Ferdowsi, in the weekend edition of the KC Star. (Via the Silicon Prairie News.)

The folks at Electric Pulp:

We took a popular ecommerce store (O’Neill Clothing) that we’d recently redesigned and monitored conversions, transactions and revenue for three weeks. Then we quietly deployed the responsive conditions to the already live site and monitored for another three weeks.

Talk about making a case for mobile-friendly. (Via Cameron Moll.)

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