45 Fresh, Clean and Impressive Designs
If you are interested to see which level of usability, legibility and visual appeal can be achieved using some basic design techniques do it right now reading this article. By the way, some talented web-developers manage to deliver powerful, functional and gorgeous web-design in “look-and-feel”-style. Feel free to take a look at their masterpieces.
Holy Grail of CSS layouts
Well described technique for achieving 3 column CSS layout with an absolute minimum of non-semantic blocks (just one).
Slick New Design Inspiration Site - Logos, Cards and Websites
A slick new gallery of logos, business cards and websites …
Adapting Traditions of Print Media to the Web
This is just a marvelous interview with ROB WEYCHERT from Happy Cog Studios.
“If you think of the two media as people, print is a wise old man who is set in his ways, whereas the web is still a child, unformed and full of potential. What I like most about web design is taking the lessons I’ve learned from that old man and teaching them to the child.”
Recycled art of bags
Momaboma bags are real. In the sense that if it
’s an L.P. bag, it’s made of a real used vinyl. Recycled aestheticism, that’s what they do.
Flickr Has an “e” in it…Web 2.0 Spelling CORRECTED
One of Internet trends that has started to irritate people over the last few years is dropping vowels from company names - Flickr, Tumblr, Pluggd, Talkr, Anothr. As diehard members of the spelling Nazis, we decided to see what had become of the correctly spelled domains, which are still racking up pageviews from visitors who can actually spell.
iPhone & LG KE850: separated at birth?
Two sparsely-buttoned large, touchscreen phones: the Apple iPhone, and the LG KE850 (which already won the International Forum Design Product Design Award for 2007). Separated at birth, or possible lawsuit number two for Apple? You decide.
As for me… I prefer Nokia!
Edward Tufte Clarifies Quantitative Information
When information needs to be communicated, Edward Tufte demands both truth and beauty. Article by Fran Smith for Stanford Magazine.
Some quotes:
“Tufte has demonstrated how confusing medical charts can lead to mistakes in treatment and how corporate reports that highlight years of rising revenue without adjusting for inflation can mislead investors. He has shown how a lawyer used a simple spreadsheet to defend mobster John Gotti and how 19th-century physician John Snow used detailed maps of London to pinpoint the cause of a cholera outbreak. “
“After an encounter with Tufte’s ideas, people can never again look at a chart, a map, a scientific table or a PowerPoint presentation quite the same way. In his romps through statistics, art, history, science, policy and anything else that grabs his interest, Tufte tackles a fundamental problem: how to accurately render complex, interrelated information on a two-dimensional paper surface or computer screen—how to, as he puts it, “escape flatland.’’ Tufte explains how to do it well and demonstrates the many, many ways it’s done badly.”
Great Artwork is Available for no-designers Now
Motorola has released a website that allows you to draw colorful artworks using patterns assorted with the colors of their phone range. The great thing about this site is that unlike other online drawing tools you barely can’t create a piece of crap.
MySpace - Worst Design Ever?
Why do successful websites often look like they were designed by someone who wouldn’t be able to design their way out of a pencil case?
I guess that everyone will agree on the fact that myspace.com has probably the ugliest design among web 2.0 social web projects. How does it happen so? What can be done about it?
Stop, but maybe myspace poor design is not a disadvantage but an advantage? Since it’s one of the most popular web sites nowadays. Read the article below from thinkvitamin for answers to some of these questions.
