This “low-fi” logo belonging Stink (an international digital agency specialized in videos) made my day.
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Partly cloudy, partly sign up form
Moving the mouse over, makes the clouds disappear and the sign up form shine brightly.
The sound of your city
CitySounds.fm is an online radio (and iphone app) that lets you discover music produced in cities around the world.
I love the simple and uniform grid, based on a austere rectangular scheme, which conveys the idea of a gigantic button board.
Google error page
Google error page is kind of fun: the gray captions made me smile.
Split your text in style
I find it very classy when text is set across two columns, especially when followed by full width images.
Minimal pagination from The Inside Source
The Inside Source, eBay’s online magazine, is another nice example of minimal design applied to fashion and style.
I love the way the pink spots, vividly contrasting the overall black-and-white design, are used to drag your attention on salient assets such as the hot topics or the current item in the pagination.
Booki.sh: your ebook library in the clouds.
Today I’m loving Booki.sh logo and its capital B, metamorphosed into a pair of glasses.
Booki.sh is a complete web-based platform for distributing, selling and reading ebooks.
Who stole my Mac? Hidden knows
A good logo design can play a significant role in enhancing the memorability of your business and/or website.
I love (and I find it very effective) when you can play on the primary logo design creating variations, which might be helpful to the communication of your services and to capturing interest on your brand as well.
In this case, I’ve been “captured” by Hidden‘s logo: Hidden is an app that, when activated, tracks your stolen computer anywhere on the planet, collect photos of the thief and screen shots of the computer in use.
The power of Web Open Font Format
Frank Chimero has explored the typographic and expressive possibilities of Web Open Font Format, creating this beautiful scrolling page.
Authentics Jobs Drop-down Form
Authentic Jobs is a job board website designed by Cameron Moll which specializes in connecting companies with creative professionals.
Candidates are easily able to filter the job listing using different kind of filters: among them, a nice drop-down form make the offers sortable by geographical proximity.
A Logo for Human Rights
The Human Rights Logo Challenge is a global contest whose aim is
to create a human rights logo “by people for people”, thus making a contribution towards the global spread and implementation of human rights with the support of a large public.
The contributions and their provenance are nicely displayed on a Google map.
You can submit your logo proposal until July 31st, 2011.
A playful, coloured, world of lists
Listgeeks is a social network designed for creating and sharing lists of things: lists boxes are neatly set on a 3 columns, almost square-based, grid; their vivid colours invigorate a strongly geometrical sequence that, otherwise, could have turned out cold and “discouraging”.
Onformative minimal breadcrumbs
An unmistakable example of perfect minimalism in breadcrumbs webdesign.
The color of the highlighted link will change everyday according to this.
Wired Mind navigation
An interesting example of concept map showing the relationships among Wired Magazine contents.
In other words:
The Wired mind is a visualisation tool that provides another way to browse the content on Wired.co.uk. It’s been created in partnership with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 browser to show off some of the great things you can do with a really fast standards-based browser. You can explore the Wired Mind by searching for tags, or by seeing the most popular tags on a particular date.
Even though it’s optimised for IE9, it works on other browsers (but very slowly) as well.
Funny footer playing with the website’s name
This piece is taken from the web design portfolio and project gallery of Rhode Island based web designer Jeremy Girard.
Zootool Tabbed Sign In form
A nice tabbed form on the top page lets you sign in to this famous bookmarklet app.
Pricing Menu Served on a Fake Perspective
The distinction and hierarchy of the different offerings are expressed by arranging the graphic elements on a fake perspective.
Vintage Movies Title Typography
I’m really excited to introduce to you Movie Title Stills Collection, one of my favourite references on the web for what concerns vintage (but also recent) typography.
I’m really thankful to Christian Annyas for providing this huge collection of screenshots and such an incredibile inspirational resource.
Funny “please wait” message
A simple way to entertain your users while they’re waiting for search results.
In order to see it, you have to click on the “find a hotel” button on the left page.
Using segmented buttons
A segmented button allows you to feature two or more different actions using only one GUI element.
In this example, active areas are colored while the price information, though it’s framed in a major graphic element, is just selectable text .
How to organize your header’s links
According to the Gestalt psychology’s Law of proximity, things that are near to each other either physycally (in this case visually) or chronologically, are likely to be perceived as related.
So, if your header accomodates different kinds of link (e.g: some for the website navigations and some for the user’s account management) it’s a good and simple UX practice organizing them unequivocally in separated layout areas.
In this case, on the left website’s navigation and on the opposite site the e-commerce cart tools.
PS This post was just a lame excuse to show covertly some cute puppies.
Funny and Creative About Us Page
Beautiful and funny “about us” page: since we don’t have such category, let’s pretend we’ve liked the copywriting.
I really suggest you to visit the external link (on the upper left corner).
You can’t see the website for the trees
For the moment being, Tarnica aka Taito Ichi’s portfolio is under construction, but these giant pink trees are really glad to keep you company.
Abstract icons for a human jukebox
You can play this incredible human beat-box by drag-dropping a set of fanciful black-and-white icons.
Alexander Calder inspired menu
This joyful red menu (and the whole website) reminded me of the work of the American sculptor Alexander Calder and made me reminiscing about his mobile sculptures.
Minimally perfect four column grid
area 22 is a nice portfolio from the San Francisco based designer Sonia Chan and a beautiful example of minimal design as well.
Apart from that, I love the tiny text snippets that introduce each section: they give a really personal touch to the browsing experience.
The flipped letter
We admire the elegant and cunning way the reversed A inserts into the M‘s white space.
A pagination working as website’s menu or vice versa?
A nice numeral menu/pagination displayed on 52 weeks of UX, a tumblr collecting Joshua Porter‘s thoughts about design and usability.
Vector Mill fine icons and other amazing resources
Congrats and respect to Ryan Putnam who recently launched Vector Mill, a website selling finest vector art, patterns and useful resources designed to speed up and improve your workflow.
Definitely loved the crate imaginary and these icons displayed on the website home page.
Outside, in the deep space…
This nice illustration fits perfectly the overall cosmic theme of the site.