Deluge Studios has a neat site. Nice use of Museo.
Last year came and went without a parting word. I suppose mainly because there wasn’t much to say, but I couldn’t let this year end without some sort of summation. So, without further ado, I give you Design Intellection’s first annual end of year wrap-up. In short, I’ll cover:
Deluge Studios has a neat site. Nice use of Museo.
I enjoyed scrolling through this site: Black Estate Vineyard. (via CSS Mania)
Good advice on choosing a design firm from the Blue Flavor Blog.
The logo for this site was the most time consuming part of the process when I redesigned back in April of this year. To recreate on screen how I visualized it conceptually was a battle all the way to the finish.
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Chris Coyier released a neat site that formats standard Lorem Ipsum into common HTML chunks. Great for test content.
The Typographic Desk Reference looks like a handy purchase. Nice site as well. (via Jason Santa Maria)
SimpleBits has a new t-shirt available for sale. It has a neat graphic of a battery icon that produced a simple reaction of “hey, another cool product that Dan made.” However, upon reading the very last sentence the concept clicked: Wear it to the gym, coffee shop, pub—or wherever you recharge.
Without that last sentence it would have been just another t-shirt.
Just a quick announcement here about some of the things I’ve added to Artisan Themes. I’ve released a theme for Tumblr called Mission, moved the two themes I previously hosted here, and released a new theme for WordPress, Circuit, that’s based on the Sandbox theme.
You can view the Tumblr theme in action on my friend Joe’s site. That’s all I’ve got!
The new 24 ways site is very cool. Related, I think Dan Cederholm’s rhyming article on gravity defying page corners is one of the best blog posts ever (circa 2006).
Nice collection of 56 Professional Free Arrow Symbols and Icons.
Mark Boulton has set a release date for his book, Designing for the Web, February 2nd, 2009. The accompanying site is quite nice as well.
The new Campaign Monitor looks to be a very useful mailing tool. I used Campaign Monitor for the Artisan Themes site launch and was nothing but pleased.
For agencies, institutions, small web shops, and others looking to hire a web designer, the process can be a bit esoteric, especially if the persons hiring do not already include a designer. However, many times the right candidate becomes clearly evident based on a strong portfolio and the correct answers to pertinent questions.
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You’ve probably already heard of this guy, but Greg Vlosich creates incredible artwork with an Etch A Sketch. The process for each piece is a fun and inspiring read.
My real-world friend and former coworker, Chase Crawford, has released a very cool theme for Habari called Wings. It’s based on Cutline by Chris Pearson, but it was totally rebuilt from the ground up. If you’re a Habari user (or a blogger) definitely check it out.
Zeldman on a recent article in Wired Magazine that suggested axing your blog.
In conclusion, Twitter, Flickr, Calacanis and Scoble. Which proves you can’t have a blog and also use Twitter. Or maybe you can have a blog and use Twitter but you shouldn’t because comments, Scoble, rich.
In case you haven’t seen it yet, create your own custom write panels in WordPress. Related, do the same thing with ExpressionEngine. (via ThemeShaper)
Please, Don’t Call Me A Rockstar.
Agreed. If I ever call myself a rockstar please don’t read this blog anymore. (And yes, I did do a site search before publishing this to make sure I never used the word rockstar!) (via Andy Rutledge)
I realized that I have lots of conversations with people about the web design profession, the state of the industry, what role design should play, etcetera. Rarely do these conversations make it to this blog though; I want to change that.
Kudos to Fell Swoop for their excellent typography. See the example on their design services page. (via CSS Import)
Carrot Creative has a neat site. I especially enjoyed reading the short staff blurbs (no permalink, follow About > Staff). (via CSS Import)
It’s always exciting to launch something. Whether it’s a blog post or a redesign, the moment you release into the wild the culmination of hours upon hours worth of work is quite a high.
So imagine releasing a project you’ve spent months executing, and even longer thinking about. It feels pretty good. Of course what I’m talking about is Artisan Themes, the self-described place for “hand-crafted blog themes.” 1
At this point if Artisan Themes didn’t make a single dollar then I wouldn’t even care. (Well, okay, that’s not entirely true.) I’m just so happy to finally have the project live.
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A good read about how waiting for the perfect client is the wrong mindset. (via Andy Rutledge)
John from I Love Typography has started a Flickr pool dedicated to favorite letters: My Favorite Letters. Should be a great place for desktop backgrounds and general type goodness.
With a more ceremonious post forthcoming, I thought I’d go ahead and make the announcement that Artisan Themes is live. Hurray!
Over the next three weeks, Design Intellection readers can use the coupon code D780D5CAAD to get a 20% discount. (The discount will be applied at the end, right before you checkout.) Thanks for reading!
Masters of Fine Arts in Interaction Design. Also check out the sample program list.
As many readers of this blog know, I’m starting a side project — Artisan Themes — where, among other things, I will be selling a ‘premium’ theme. As others also know, there’s a bit of controversy surrounding premium themes and their place in the WordPress community.
You can follow the discussion in many places, there’s the WP-Hacker’s mailing list or the discussion on Ian’s blog that I linked to last month for starters.
All that I’ve read about the topic amounts to what designers and developers of WordPress think about it. However, what I would like to know is what the WordPress end-user (or blogger) thinks about paid versus free WordPress themes.
To that end I have decided to host a very informal survey on the matter. I have three questions after the jump (the Keep Reading link) that deal with said subject.
Now the main problem with these type of things is that it leaves the blog author open to public shame and ridicule if no one comments on the survey because he/she looks like a gigantic fail! So if no one answers I will be forced to comment on my own blog with made up names and answers. No one wants to see that, so please, let me know your thoughts!
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The site for the FOWA Miami conference is live. Great color scheme and textures. I also like how the navigation is repeated near the footer, actually that part of the site is probably my favorite. The light and dark grays with the golden yellow contrast is very appealing.
Neat display with Post-Its. Take a look at the ‘T’, super sharp. A good example of grid-based design?
Check out the navigation (left side) on Fall for Tennessee’s site. Excellent choice of type (I’m pretty sure it’s Archer) to pair with the 3-line dotted borders. (Via Elliot Jay Stocks on Twitter)
Renaissance is a theme for WordPress that has a robust ad management system, lets you easily add content from your Tumblr, Flickr or Twitter account and is beautifully designed.
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