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!

via The River Current

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!

Dave Werner

There are designers out there with outstanding work, and then there are designers that can talk about the work process behind the outstanding work. Check out Dave Werner’s work, but most of all check out his work process!

Kiss Me I’m Polish

Strange name, great work! This is the studio behind some of Good Magazine’s information design. Oh yeah…they also redesigned the Good.Is site as well. Lovely clean and organized work!

Kevin Cornell

If you are looking for a great illustration portfolio to browse check out Kevin’s work. Kevin is the staff illustrator for A List Apart – I always love how his simple water color illustraitons compliment the articles

Scott Hansen

I’ve always been a fan of Scott Hansens retro style posters and print work. Also check out his musical projects: Tycho

Si Scott

Si Scott is a master or ornamental illustration and typography. If you are looking for fancy and ornate inspiration definitely check his work out.

Jennifer Daniel

Jennifer Daniel is one of those designers that was probably a smart ass as a kid that has managed to make a career out of it. :) I love her witty, funny and poignant illustrations and designs.

Mat Keers

Mat Keers has some nice clean and geometric logos, letterheads and business cards. Its always good to see things that are simple and clever.

Rob Waychert

I’m pretty sure Rob hasnt updated his portfolio in a while, but his work is still amazing. I love it when I can see a designers sense of humor and personality in their work!

Jessica Hische

Another great designer and illustrator – Jessica has a knack for hand lettering.

Mark Caneso

Mark Caneso has some great type work along with a portfolio full of nice grid based work.

Guru

I love all the quirky little animated characters in Guru’s show reel. Lots of inspiration for animation based motion design.

Pysop

Pysop has a large variety of work for a large variety of clients, but I really enjoy their propaganda section.

Mass Market

Mass Market has a great portfolio filled with lots of big name clients from the music industry. I’m really digging the bubbles and subtle effects in their diet coke commercial.

Lobo

I love this whimsical FIAT commercial that features animation and the gas pumps chasing the car.

Justin Harder

What else can you say about amazing stop motion animation that involves surfing sandals? Niiiiiiiiice!

Shilo

Shilo has a nice spot for gap combining dance and hand drawn marker graphics.

Oktobor

Oktobor has a nice short spot for Fresh & Fruity yogurt. Love the little yogurt character chasing down its owner – very creative!

The Mill

I love the simplicity, 80′s color scheme and lighting used in this video for La Roux.

Dvein

Dvein’s work is in a class of its own – bordering on strange, organic and other-worldly. Definitely inspiring and different.

Buck

Finally the Mt. Dew rebranding makes sense….sort of. Buck designed this spot to be released with the new Dew rebranding.

Owltastic

Do you guys know who Megan Fisher is? Shes a designer for a tiny (and talented) webshop called Simplebits and a freelancer. Check out her recently redesigned and rebranded site! Great job Megan!

Re-design the US Dollar

Think Create Blog proposes that the American dollar is ugly (I wholeheartedly agree) and needs to be re-designed. If the Swiss and Europeans can do it on a (sort of) regular basis then we should as well.

Google Maps Typography

Check out this series of images found within google maps. Typography is all around us!

Vintage Checks

Check out the detailed type of these vintage bank checks. Too bad our checks can’t look like this today!

We Love Icons!

There are an immense number of icons out there on the interwebs, but lets get real – alot of them are crap. High quality is hard to come by, but this site has it right: We Love Icons.

Letman

Just cant get enough of hand drawn lettering and design? Check out Letman’s amazing work.

via hellyeahdude

Oded Ezer

Oded Ezer – a typographic artist, logo and type designer, pushes the limits of the Hebrew alphabet with his experimental typography. Definitely something to check out if you are looking for inspiration that is out of the ordinary.

Rita

I love it when graphic designers venture outside the realm of well…graphic design and jump into the design world at large. Rita is a multidisciplinary design studio based in canada with a lovely portfolio of designed objects.

Thumbnails In Web Design

Ever wonder how other designers handle thumbnail images in their designs? Check out this article by 2 Experts design on examples and best practices of the art of thumbing…the nail…or thumbnails…or whatever. :)

A Slightly…different business card

Looking for a way for your business card to stand out amongst the crowd? Forget about diecuts, folds, embossing and foil – check out these MEAT CARDS!!! Made from beef jerky and etched wiht lasers – YES LASERS!!! :)

Slinky Type!!!

Slinkys – everyone loved this toy as a kid. (I know I did) Well – now you can have your very own typeface based on the popular toy!

Take a peek into designer’s bags!

Do ever wonder what other designers carry around with them on a daily basis? Check out this post to see all the nerdy and not so nerdy stuff designers carry around with them on a daily basis. Lots of macs and moleskine notebooks!

Black Nun Bold

Looking for a nice bold typeface for your next project? Check out Black Nun Bold.

Alpha Text

An interesting typeface based on the way we abbreviate words when sending text or sms messages

Minimal Medical Packaging

Love this minimal medical packaging by Melissa Notaro. I think she’s using the lovely HF&J typeface archer. Its nice to see medical design that isn’t ugly!

FPO For Print Only

Check out the newest blog launch of Under Consideration: FPO For Print only. This blog…is all about print! But not just any print work – they aim to blog about high-end detailed print work. They get into the nitty gritty details of how the work was made. Really interesting!

Preserve

Do you love old painted signs? Then check out Preserve – a blog dedicated to documenting old signs before they fade away. They are also looking for contributors so go grab your cameras and snap away!

Beautiful Wireframes

Looking for wireframe inspiration? Check out Flickr user soxiam’s portfolio of wireframes and UI sketches.

Film The Blanks

An ongoing experiment to abstract and/or reduce film posters. Some famous, some not so famous but all cool in their own way.