Our weekly “best-of-the-web” list. Enjoy!

	The Branding Process of “The Great Gatsby” You all sure loved this on Facebook – and rightfully so! This behind the scenes look at the evolution of Gatsby branding is beautiful, inspirational and packed with awesome type/logo work.
	Life-sized LEGO X-Wing It’s 11 feet tall, 43 feet long, 44 feet wide, is made of 5,335,200 LEGO bricks and why are you still reading this and not already geeking out over the detailed photos!?

	A Tweeting House Tom Coates has set up his home with several sensors and smart devices that enable his house to tweet about various situations. With messages like, “Hey @tomcoates, I just noticed some movement in the sitting room. Is that you?” I’m convinced we live in the future.
	Chrome Extensions for Designers Chances are, if you’re using Chrome, you’re taking advantage of some very helpful extensions.  Here are a few you may have missed that make the designers life a little easier. Don’t worry, there’s something for you devs, too…
	Chrome Extensions for Developers Back-to-back awesome Chrome resources for designers and developers! Way to go, Mashable!

Remember when Movable Type was the coolest thing on the internet? We do. We’ve been hosting blogs big and small since the dawn of the CMS. Now it’s pretty clear blogging is hitting the mainstream with the recent $1Bil blogging move by Yahoo.

To celebrate this blogging coming of age story, we’re offering 50% off the Grid , our most popular blogging platform. Use the code BlogMove in the checkout process.

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The Future Insights Live conference is chock-full of inspiring stories, lessons and- well, insights! In parts one and two of this series, we asked Future Insights speakers about the value they bring into peoples’ lives through their work. This third and final installment focuses on the value that attendees got from 3 days of workshops, talks and meetups – and what better way to share than with an awesome graphical story in time lapse form?

(mt) sponsored a graffiti wall, which was facilitated and illustrated by Graphic Footprints artist Sophia Liang. Attendees shared what inspired them during FILive, and Sophia would ink it up onto the wall. The purpose of the graffiti wall was to create a visual representation of the conference. We think it turned out beautifully, don’t you?

Download Hi-res Image of Graffiti Wall

(mt) sponsors Future Insights, Future of Web Apps and Future of Web Design to stay engaged with people and explore what drives the community to produce work. “Stories from Future Insights” is a snapshot of conversations with Future Insights Live speakers from the Vegas 2013 show. Here is part two, featuring responses to the question:

What are you doing within your work to bring more value into peoples’ lives?

“There are 10′s of millions of people that could not access the web if they did not have access to Opera.”

“It brings new opportunity to developers who didn’t realize there was opportunity.”

“I hate computers. I just like what you can do WITH them. It’s just a tool,” says Bruce Lawson, an Open Standards Evangelist for Opera browser. “We run on devices that no one else runs on. There are 10′s of millions of people that could not access the web if they did not have Opera. It’s the only option for many types of devices.” Opera is the only mobile browser that runs on inexpensive and more proprietary phones. “It directly impacts those lives where the nearest school is many miles away. They have access to news and communication via their mobile with Opera.”

  Michael Palermo is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft.  His specialty is HTML5. “I’ve accelerated the ramping up of anyone, regardless of tech background, to be able to quickly put an app in the Windows store. I educate and inform developers and the tech community about new features for Microsoft.” Providing this info may influence how a student shapes their education or define where they place their career path. “It brings new opportunity to developers who didn’t even realize that there is opportunity.” Putting an app in the Windows store is a lesser-known but still massive area of opportunity for developers at the moment. The Windows Store is not yet densely populated and is still relatively new, providing early adopters with the chance to make a LOT of money.

Our weekly “best-of-the-web” list. Enjoy!

	How Well Do You Know Your Fonts? So you think you’re a pro? Test your ninja design/typography knowledge with this fun little quiz. Be honest- how did you score?
	Much Ado About Adobe The Internet is all a-buzz about Adobe. If you read only one thing on the latest happenings and opinions, read Jeff Zeldman’s post and the comment thread that follows.

	Death to Websites, All Hail Smart Sites All we can say about our friend & client’s post is: YES. The whole idea of building “smart sites” is something we at (mt) are striving towards, too.
	Lessons in Creativity It’s always a struggle trying to find the balance between business and being creative.
	Out of Print (mt) client Out of Print celebrates the world’s great stories through fashion, featuring iconic and often out of print book covers. As if that isn’t cool enough, they’ve recently partnered with greatgatsbygame.com to donate one book when 25,000 points is scored!

When is the last time you stopped and acknowledged the value you contribute to others through your work? Your work goes beyond having an aesthetically pleasing app or travelling hundreds of miles to lecture on your expertise.

(mt) sponsors Future Insights, Future of Web Apps and Future of Web Design to stay engaged with people and explore what drives the community to produce work. “Stories from Future Insights” is a snapshot of conversations with Future Insights Live speakers from the Vegas 2013 show. In part’s one and two, we’ll be featuring responses to the question:

What are you doing within your work to bring more value into peoples’ lives?

“What I do is I try to bring some type of harmony to the web design community through photoshop etiquette.”

“There’s a problem with people with disabilities not being able to get jobs. AbilityNet makes website accessibility usable by everybody.”

Dan Rose is the Lead UI designer for WSOL, a web design and development agency. “What I do is I try to bring some type of harmony to the web design community through photoshop etiquette, via talks and written articles.” Dan has written for Smashing Mag and Net Mag. He speaks at conferences such as Future Insights, and Artifact. “My talks are based on the premise that many people feel like they can’t use Photoshop now a days. I set out to make them “ok” with using Photoshop. Hopefully, it brings some type of ease or comfort to what they can contribute without having to rely on producing code to create design. I would like to do more humanitarian work to effect change for the greater good. Hopefully equipping people with strategies to produce design might contribute to that idea in a broader sense.”

Robin Christopherson is the Head of Digital Inclusion at AbilityNet, a tech charity for helping people disabilities.He is an advocate to bring awareness to problems disabled persons face in the workforce, and solutions to those problems. “There’s a problem with people with disabilities not being able to get jobs. AbilityNet makes website accessibility usable by everybody. Robin is also working on a project with The Clear Company, called ClearTalents. It is an online tool that job applicants use to disclose any disabilities or concerns/needs they would have at a job. “The tool makes recommendations to recruiters on how they can make reasonable adjustments.”

Our weekly “best-of-the-web” list. Enjoy!

	History of the animated GIF Did you know the GIF is 26 yrs old? This animated (non-GIF) video shows the history of the oldest internet trend that’s STILL going strong.
	Curated Fashion A creative agency’s new project, knowwear.com, creates a unique collection of curated style. Site is complete with chic threads and “why so serious!?” faced models.

	PSD -> HTML plugins For you designers who don’t always use CSS, here are 5 handy dandy plugins to help you convert your beautiful PSD’s to HTML.
	Creative Mornings with Tim Hunter Tim Hunter, the Sr. Designer at WET, gave an amazing talk at Creative Mornings in Santa Monica on May 17th. He provided a glimpse into how the creative process happens at the design agency, which has produced some of the world’s most amazing water fountains.
	The world’s first interview relationship manager The Interviewr is a service that makes the lives of reporters, bloggers, and journalists MUCH easier. With it, you can schedule, manage, record, and even transcribe phone and VoIP interviews you conduct. Bonus: this awesome service is made on (mt)!

Granted, our crew spends a lot more time pounding the keys on our laptops than pounding across the bay in a bass boat. But after hearing about their practically indestructible coolers, we just had to visit Yeti Coolers HQ in Austin to meet these cool (mt) customers.

See the Yeti Coolers team in action, and find out what spurred founder Roy Seiders to build a “wildly stronger” ice chest. Watch the video >>