If i lived in NY, I’d sure have a Bertelli’s bike: every piece is unique and it combines brand new parts with vintage parts found at a flea market. If you wanna browse BBici’s framesets, you can use the small HTML arrows embedded in the menu navigation, a simple and classy navigation solution.
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Menu & Navigation,
Paginations
An example of extremely minimal, black and white layout, taken from Trent Walton’s personal blog.
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Grids & Listings
Loved this food icons set about food and cooking, found on an interesting culinary blog called Recetas de rechupete.
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Icons
The scribbled-like baloon and its white background, constrasting the surrounding subtle gradients, draw user’s attention to this simple contact form.
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Forms
How am I supposed to categorize these impossibly beautiful display ampersands, packaged both as .eps vector files and opentype font? Are they typography or just icon design?
While I try to solve this “visual” conundrum, you can take a look at this website and find who really were Haäfe & Haph.
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Icons,
Typography
A Modern Eden is a website that will be launched on June, devoted to create iPhone apps for design-lover parents.
In anticipation of what you will get this summer, you can take a look at the beautiful collection of geometric animal illustrations and at the matching snake, wrapped around the website’s footer.
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Footers
Honestly, I think that Last.fm is one of the best web portal ever done, on the design side I mean. My appreciation comes partly from some little clever intuitions (e.g. the avatar-button), partly because of its graphic consistency, which never slips into visual bore.
Now I’m wondering if the new Facebook like button, which is spreading [...]
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Ratings
A current trend in web design is embedding huge search form in your website’s header: here you a re a clear example of this style taken from Precinkt, a showcase that features places to visit in specific areas all around the world.
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Forms,
Menu & Navigation
A nice example of a heavily styled 3D pagination, with strong but clear hover effects.
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Paginations
A simple roll-over effect creates a clear double menu navigation.
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Menu & Navigation
It’s beautiful when background images help you to make out the meaning of websites you’re visiting, creating a nice visual experience but also providing you an information. In this case the many coloured threads woven in a tidy rope perfectly highlight the mission of FeedStitch, an online application that lets you
pull data feeds from [...]
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Backgrounds
A subtle gradient treatment makes these try/buy buttons nice and elegant.
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Buttons, Bullets & Badges
On Justquoted you can find tons of interesting famous quotes that can make your conversation even smarter than they already are.
The full-option listing it’s designed not only to display gracefully these witty quotes but also to promote conversation about them.
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Grids & Listings
A nice Iphone app for checking your SEO and a lovely logo build on a quite usual analogy between magnifying glass and search.
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Logos
Mixing different weight and style and, possibly, different typefaces, is one of the most ancient trick in modern typography. The risk is that sometimes text is not enjoyable or readable, but we think this is not the case.
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Copywriting,
Typography