A card for any occasion! Above photo is a highlight of one of the great cards found at the felt and wire shop online. It has a very wide selection of letterpressed products. Looks like they have some decent prices too. http://feltandwireshop.com/categories/write
It is often challenging for designers to decide the best way to showcase their web work. Airside is a London-based creative agency that has found a unique and interesting way to solve that problem and showcase a website they built. view it here: http://www.airside.co.uk/work/projects/vitsoe
I have recently been trying to brush up my flash skills and have been watching YouTube videos for inspiration. Here are some interesting typographic Flash gems:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEVvEsEbl5I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki6rcXvUWP0
My favorite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIDdx7NPJgo
Movie trailers or opening movie credits are also a good source for Flash inspiration These probably weren’t created using Flash, but they could have been.
My personal favorite is the opening credits from Catch Me If You Can:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVEgK3nCkao
I found a few different title sequences for Big Fish. Both have a unique implementation of texture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48A8jF1KAHc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14MIXCA8shs
And finally, a Series of Unfortunate Events:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTg5vGDcu6U
Friday, April 17 was my senior portfolio review. The event began 11am, so it’s safe to say I was quite nervous at about 10:30am. However, once the event began and a had discussed my work to a few of the reviewers, I quickly calmed down. In fact, I really enjoyed the experience. It was extremely helpful to get both positive feedback and constructive criticism about my work. Also, because I was part of the team of three students who designed the invitations and signage for the event, it was exciting to see that there was a steady flow of designers who attended the event. Professionals began showing up promptly at 11am the last review didn’t conclude until about 5:30pm.
Once again, I say “Thank you” to the professionals who attended the event. Your participation and advice was extremely valuable and I now feel much more prepared to begin my job search.
Antonio Carusone has recently written an article on AisleOne about 8 simple ways to improve typography on the web (and for print). As a bonus, he included the CSS to achieve desired type excellence.
If you need some inspiration for sustainable home developer sites, this could be a good place to start, though I haven’t looked at all the links yet. This also could be a useful start if you conduct a competitive analysis for your housing website’s discovery document.
Look carefully or you just might miss it. This image is taken from one of Facebook’s advertisements (often on the right-hand side of the page). If you look closely at the bottom of the advertisement you can see a little “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” icon. If you click on the “thumbs down” you can mark why you don’t like that ad, and then the ad disappears. What a great step furthering facebook’s great user experience!
I just bought a domain name and server space! For awhile, I wasn’t sure which company to purchase from. Many people use Go Daddy, so, originally, I had assumed I’d just buy server space from them. However, when I went to the site, I found it was rather confusing to use. It was difficult to navigate, the design of the site just isn’t user friendly in my opinion. I decided to research a few other hosting sites. This led me to fatcow.com. Not only does this company have a great deal for a domain name and server space (only $66 a year), but their site is also much cleaner. Good user experience helped me to navigate to exactly where I wanted to go. Along the way, the site is filled with quirky cow-lingo, such as “Fat Cow has now gone free range” or “Great web hosting. No bull.” To top that off, they offer UNLIMITED disk space and bandwidth, compared to GoDaddy’s cheapest plan, which has a 10GB limit.
So, if you are in the market for a domain name and server space, I recommend you mooooove over to Fatcow.com
