In the so-called normal web world a navigation menu is always supposed to precede pagination, but what normally rules in webdesign, doesn’t minimally affect Subnormality strip website. Hope you’ll enjoy these comics with too many words and a subversive menu in it: have an inspirational reading!
This is a powerful callout box found in Income diary, a blog that hopefully will teach us all how to earn an additional income from the Internet. Apart from the blog’s lofty ideals, I really think that in this case the association of a street sign icon with a heavy typography and a bossy copywriting [...]
Tools for Schools provides customized back-to-school supplies packaged in personalized kit. The big pencil illustration, the fake clumsy calligraphy, the dashed lines surrounding callout boxes and form fields, the scissors, it all stirs up memories of events long ago.
We’re fond of the illustration. We adore the palette. We’re puzzled by the copy and enthralled at the same time. Great job Huwshimi!
How could we possibly resist to this Tumblr theme inspired by Saul Bass’ work? Saul Bass was a notorious American graphic and logo designer, made famous by his animated motion picture title sequences and I’m quite sure you can recognize some of them here. Bass’ spirit it’s clearly revoked by the protruding hands, the capricious [...]
Lately LastFm’s charts have been temporarily offline. So I’ve had the chance to see this error page which, as you can see by yourself, it’s written in several languages. What really struck me it’s the fact that messages aren’t identical but, depending on your nationality, you’re invited to drink a different beverage. That made me [...]
Sometimes even when everything is upside down, it still makes sense. So does this creative error page from RedTag.
Carsonified is really a studio we wish we could work for: we passionately follow their famous blog Think Vitamin and we admire their great style. So we are proud to introduce you their quite famous error page based on awesome illustration and funny copy. We love as well the heavy use of Cooper for the [...]
And here you are a little graphical treat for this weekend: a funny error page from PsdThemes.com starring Omar Simpson. We love as well the copy that reads: It seems that the page you were trying to reach doesn’t exist anymore, or maybe it has just moved. We think that the best thing to do [...]
This inspirational badge hanging from above, enhances the visibility of Dubai’s Mall form search. If you’ve ever wondered about this shop here you are some further informations: The Dubai Mall is the region’s premier shopping, lifestyle and entertainment destination. With more than 1,200 stores and a host of world-class attractions, The Dubai Mall is revolutionizing [...]
Here you are a super clean sign up form from Gowalla which is basically a location-based game that rewards you for visiting both everyday and extraordinary places Ok that’s fun: but we’d want you to focus also on the smooth rounded fields and the green alert feedbacks that show up when you shift the focus [...]
We’re enthralled by the way Andrew’s logo plays with Heltevica A negative space. So clever!
A nice set of 30 icons in free download, ideal for developers, with eps source included. Here you are some details from the website: All icons are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. Feel free to use them in any form in you projects or even remix them. No need to link [...]
One of our favorite communities and its self-explanatory logo: Corkd it’s an online community about Ratings and Cellaring for The simple way to review and share wine. Cheers!
Mert Tol’s a creative director that runs an inspirational blog about Typography, Web Design, Advertisement and everything pertaining creativity. So this website it’s a quite useful resource in itself. Also add the fact that its typographic driven pagination displays a clever way to incorporate in one block several elements: post date, comments number, tags and [...]
Today we’ve added a brand new category to Web & Patterns, about good inspirational copywriting for the web. So today’s first post is all about Bringing the art to the cart which is a beautiful example of product introduction that, once read, it will stick in your mind for very looong. Have an inspirational day!
Crowleywebb is an AD agency located in Buffalo with a quite surprisingly unconventional flash website. I think it’s a bold move for an agency to put aside any graphic treatments, relying only on typography and copy. As you will see, the splash page is brilliant, the text treatment is simple yet effective and the transitions are smooth [...]
Atomic Cartoons is a content developer and full service producer located in Vancouver, Canada. Each section of their one-page portfolio displays a matching cartoon illustration, emerging from the dark background with a dramatic, movie-like effect.
Oh we wish Twitter crashed repeatedly so we could see more often its beautiful and creative technical error page. But it works so damn well! PS This post make me sounds like a web designer trained by one of the dreadful Addams! Anyway if you’re looking for more error pages, you can also give a [...]
Wofoo is an HTML form builder. To put it better: a web application that removed the inefficiency and tediousness out of the form building process. Wufoo reduced what used to take days (if not weeks) by trained professionals into something that could be done by anyone in minutes. I really like Wufoo’s brilliant pricing and [...]
Affordance is a visual clue to the function of an object. The term, that was firstly brought out in the 70s by perceptual psychologist J. J. Gibson and originally meant “the actionable properties between the world and an actor (a person or animal)”, was introduced with the aforesaid significance by Don Norman‘s besteller The Psychology of Everyday [...]
Fruttabuona, which is Italian for Good Fruit, is our first free icons set. When I first started drawing the apple, which originally was intented to be a personal avatar, I knew I wanted to do something glossy but not too shiny, with a heavy outline and a strongly circular set up. But, once I was smitten with [...]
According to the website’s About page, Hitotoki is a Japanese noun comprised of two components: hito or “one” and toki or “time,” and is often translated as “a moment.” In common usage, it can be used to describe any brief, singular stretch of time (if we share a meal someday, you can call that a hitotoki). To [...]
You don’t have to be a magician to get a web page vanish. On the opposite, a splash of irony and a good illustration can do the trick of making your good mood come back. Thanks Mixx for your magically inspirational 404 error page.
If you’re looking for a navigation menu that does have the power of making a strong, immediate impression on your users, you can use Life magazine‘s menu as a good starting point. Menu’s buttons are displayed as big tabs framing a nice thumb (for sure at Life they’re not short on good photos, so finding a [...]
On my previous job, when I was working for a big web portal, we got used to look up to Yahoo’s interaction design as one of the most insightful example of dealing with users’ experience on a large scale audience. When you’re not able to relate to a definite target (ok, I too hate this [...]
The things you don’t find on Internet! See what I found on Smashing Magazine while they were busy doing some clean up for their new website.
An awesome set of icons for Iphone has been released by App Bits in free download. Here you are some details about it: Set of 48 toolbar icons for the iPhone toolbar. These buttons contain beautiful shaded portions to give added depth and to highlight icon features. The icons in the preview to the left [...]
Coolspotters is a online service that makes it easy to discover and buy the products, brands, and fashions being used by your favorite celebrities – in their real lives, and in movies and television. Coolspotters’ website features an interesting and quite articulate system of displaying error messages, while you’re still filling the sign up (or [...]
