Best of the Week 7/10
Wow…this week has been crazy! Carsonified did a massive redesign, The Obox guys didn’t sleep all week and released a theme shop, Chat Creative had their first video chat, and rainbow gradients attempted to take over the internets! Leave a comment and let us know if we missed any great articles or inspiring designs.
Carsonified Redesigns
Carsonified redesigned their site with a wonderfully illustrative and colorful design! Click around the site and let them know what you think.
Obox Theme Shop
Obox Design launched their theme store this week. I’m really digging their hand done ‘left handed’ theme. Go check it out! Great work guys!
Chat Creative
Chat Creative exists to connect the creative community one video chat at a time. Very cool idea to get to know other designers/bloggers and connect with them and learn!
Mrs. Green
Von Glitschka talks about his process of designing a character and how this expresses a brand.
Bio-Bak.nl
Flashy website with some interesting navigation…
Scrolling Background Effect
Nice header background animation tutorial from youlove.us. Nice use of png’s and jquery!
Packaging With Attitude
Love this simple packaging and identity system and witty copy-writing for Brooklyn Fare. I’m sure all the designers out there would love to have clients like this! :) By Mucca Designs
Post-it Note Stop Animation
Checkout this awesome stop motion post-it note video. I’m amazed at the complexity and length of this video!
Copyright 101 for Designers
Amy has some great tips for designers on basic copyright info over at design sponge. A must read if you a newbie designer or student.
PIXELATED – a lightweight IconKit
PIXELATED is extremely lightweight – the icon file sizes average 60 bytes!
All icons contain only two colors: #222 and #EEE. (I’m considering releasing a developer’s package with PSDs so users can easily customize their colors)
Since the icon’s edges are hard, these transparent GIFs will work on any background.
The icons are free to use – no strings attached.
How To Create a WordPress Theme
Themeshaper has an 11 part tutorial covering wordpress from beginning to end. Good through tutorial for beginners.
Free Typography
Love free (and decent) typefaces? Check out freetypography.com for all the latest on great free typefaces!
Rainbows oh my…
This site might cause you to have a seizure, but this is the glory of the internets. Prepare to bask in the warm glow of animated rainbow gradients :)
Screen Jelly
Screen jelly allows you to record your screen from within the browser. Pretty cool for on the fly tutorials or demonstrations.
247 web usability guidelines
User Focus has put together a HUGE checklist of usability guidelines for web projects. Great in depth resource!
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Martyn Web July 10th
The Brooklyn Fare designs are great, from web to packaging the whole thing is great. Looks like the client might of let the designer take control for once. Good stuff.
On another note, I really can’t work out if I like or dislike the new Carsonified site. I think I do like it!
Mark-BrandInnovator July 11th
Hey, Niki
Great collection — I’m looking forward to browsing and learning from them.
Thought you might also enjoy these
http://brandinnovator.blogspot.com/2009/06/creative-ads-inspiration-for-designers.html
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