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Tag Archives: Design
Bragging design
Brag ‘n’ dare community website Bragster has a cool homepage feature, little translucent dialogue boxes that pop up to let visitors know about conversations happening inside. You can’t come in though, you have to become a member, very clever me thinks.
Posted in Design, Social networks Also tagged adobe air, community based site, online community, social network 1 Comment
Web Map
More Geek Chic from me, this time it comes in the form of this cool wallpaper designed by IA Japan. You can download it or order it as a poster for your office.
3 Pretty cool examples of product design
What a hatchback! This Alpha Brera hands-down beats any of it’s equivalents in the market. Whilst people are oogling over the Audi A5, this older (2006) Alpha still beats it in the aesthetics dept. Arcoroc Pint Glasses, found these in the office. French made, such attention to detail and even the typeface used for the [...]
Zazzling Zoom
I was surfing the web for t-shirts today, just looking and not buying. I want to print my own, there are so many Banksy tee’s available but no Binoy Varghese tee’s or any of the artists that I like. Anyway I stumbled upon Zazzle.Com, which at first looked like any other t-shirt website, however, after [...]
Posted in Design, User Experience (UE) Also tagged ajax, Art, e-shop, ecommerce, fashion, online shop, tee shirts, usability, web design Leave a comment
Geometry, circles and things
Kapitza have just released a book of geometric art, I’m a big fan geometric/linear art and geometry because It takes me back to my childhood. When we were kids my Mum use to teach us how to draw all kinds of shapes and patterns using compasses, I know, I know most kids just used to [...]
Cool Soap
I’m really liking the Malin+Goetz product packaging. It’s been around for quite some time, however, I like the way the type descends, gets smaller (in size and weight) and fades in colour. I’ve been a bit cheeky and copied this style for a few powerpoint presentations. It’s quite a cool way of showing how drawn [...]
Posted in Design, Typography Also tagged helvetica, minimalism, minimalist, package design, product design, Typography Leave a comment
Where to find inspiration
If you’re ever looking for creative inspiration or just “cool stuff” on the web, take a look at the explore page on tumblr. Honestly it’s brilliant, tumblr seems to be the blogging platform of choice for so many photobloggers (phloggers, I just made that up), designers and creative types, you’re sure to find some gems [...]
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