Web & Patterns: patterns for a better web.

Impeccable typography in Monocle, a magazine about politics, business, culture and design, conceived by the founder of Wallpaper, Tyler Brûlé.  Obviously the use of  typographical weights winks to print design with a classy result.

So you want to create a logo in pure Twitter style? Twitlogo is the online application for you: a simple form with some adjustable parameters (hidden in the advanced options) to create lettering and logos à la Twitter.

Creative Depart is, like Behance, a community of creatives, illustrators and graphic the have  the opportunity to show their works.  The navigation menu is very interesting because of it is that dynamically change the content below.

The Glasgow Collective is a gallery that contains works by students of Glasgow School of Art  The web site is well done and the breadcrumbs are well set: the claim “you are here” immediately attracts the eye and the shape of arrows is pleasant.  On the other hand, I don’t find proper using the same [...]

An example of minimal paging, without numbers, in Josh Smith’s online portfolio.

Checkmycolours is a tool that allows you to analyze the color contrast in web pages elements. Very useful for all web designers.

Jokeyphone is an application, still in Beta, with which you can see users video-recorded jokes, create channels, participate in contest and possibly upload your own jokes.  The flash menu is funnny: iconsand the  slight mouse over animation are very enjoyable.

I’m not pretending to discover anything new, but the thumb icon in Digg has to be in our collection of rating systems.

Mindmeister’ price plan: an application to create and share mind maps online:. I liked the differentiation of icons depending on the type of offer.

Search forms are an essential component in web services dedicated to the discovery of resources in a given locality (they mostly rely on Google Maps,) In the case of Geopage, apart from the general aesthetic context, I liked the default value of the input text, which immediately explains what can and should be sought in [...]

Well contextualized and nice, the icons of the splash page of Adexcel serve to indicate different types of products depending on the kind of customer.

Patch logo, a platform dedicated to broadcast news and events in very small American communities, is very simple and easy to adapt to different contexts.

Boagworld footer is huge, but certainly full of interesting content for SEO: apart form that, this blog is a useful about web design and its issues.

Spacecollective is an ambitious project and, if we wish, even a little hazy in its premises: it’s about sharing knowledge on the human species, its environment and its future.  Posts are arranged as if they were cards: in this way you have an interesting effect as if the contents of the contributors were presented in [...]

A well-designed balloon gently warns me that if I want to intervene in the wiki Emilialcolica, I must first register.

Ratemyarea is  an interesting social leaning on Google maps service that lets you review events in your area.

An ecological footer, with a vague taste of recycled paper, for a festival which takes place in Iowa.

The creativity of this New Media Agencyt can be seen immediately by the visual impact of its web site: you can choose between four different themes and nice giraffes are lowered into environments not always orthodox ..

Even in an error page there may be a bit of poetry: just like in Twitter service error page.

The navigation in Claire Baxter portfolio is disposed in an apparently random and untidy way form that indeed anticipates the faux shabby style by which the entire web site is organized.

Interesting the combination of tabs and drop-down menu in the navigation menu of Inkd: tab indicates the main sections, while the drop-down menu (on mouse over) allows you to see all the subsections.  Even the color code is accurate: active tab is white, blue tab are those relating to the product itself, while grays tab are dedicated [...]

Captions of sites in Colorgorize appear from below with an rising motion:  if you move the mouse quickly on different thumbs,  you get a fun “wave” effect.

Clear and simple, the registration form of Design Snack is one of my favorite: instructions for the compilation are enclosed and highlighted by  braces.

A pleasantly retro style for this illustration taken from Mr. Aero, a web site/community dedicated to those who have a common passion for flying.

I love these “typographical masks” covering IGoGo works thumbs.

Interesting boxes in Pips, a network of sites devoted to forex trading: to the left the basic version, to the right  the mouse over version with the title in positive, the thumb, and the visit link written in a calligraphic font.

Entertaining this illustration that plays with the brand agency Punkyduck.com

I liked the organic shape of  Querier.net logo, a web site with a very strange mission: interviewing for free (and why should anyone should pay?) anyone who has a web project, a web site or an online business.

Many happy faces and a sad one:  the one in 404 error page of Social Faces.com.