Web & Patterns: patterns for a better web.

Mutant Labs logo follows the ever growing vogue of animal inspired logos, though we think that this cyclop-squid really brings a breath of fresh air to a well-established logo design trend.

Pedemontana it’s the name of a new big highway system that will connect Milan to other cities of northern Italy. This website’s art direction is from Leftloft, a big communication and identity studio based in Milan: the use of many different typographic weights and styles loosens up the grid stiffness while revealing an editorial, newspaper-like, [...]

If it’s not a rule, it’s an established trend that big typograhic treatments requires few text, big spaces and consistent page structures.
As in this case, a huge heading with a 3 columns grid it’s a common but effective layout pattern that has the pros of enganging readers attention and making texts easy readable.

Uannabe (that’s an italianish spelling for the English Wanna Be) it’s basically an italian job board/community that displays in every detail a real high quality design.
We really enjoyed the prince-frog logo (frogs lately became quite a trend in logo design, don’t you agree?): the execution is impeccable and the concept rocks.

Hitchcock is a great free font inspired by Saul Bass titles (though the lettering artist that did the lettering for the Saul Bass was Art Goodman) and we are extremely grateful to Matt Terich for having recreated all these beautiful glyphs.
If you want to see a good application of this typeface to an existing layout, [...]

When it comes to user interface patterns (or in short, design patterns) Yahoo Design Pattern Library is certainly a reference.
But it’s a good example of applied web desing patterns too: the page in fact displays a breadcrumb trail which is a  nice variation of the classic slash-kind, with the wow factor added by using a [...]

Christmas time is coming and since Santa last year has been quite generous with us, we think this time we could help giving him some tips.
So we’ve collected ten great online shop, with inspiring layouts too, where you may find some ideas for your gifts and some snips of beautiful web design interfaces too.
1.The Cold [...]

Gosh. We’ve caught it again: the 404 disease!

Ommwriter is
a simple text processor that firmly believes in making writing a pleasure once again, vindicating the close relationship between writer and paper. The more intimate the relation, the smoother the flow of inspiration.
We loved the simplicity of its vertical menu made with rounded items overlapping and the nice simple icons that are displayed on [...]

Santa’s searching, our Christmas desktop wallpaper, is featured on Smashing Magazine as one of the best desktop calendars for December 2009.
You can get it here (look for Santa’s searching)

For the 2009 World AIDS day we’ve created a supporting typographic poster (PDF). You can see it by clicking on the download button or on the link on the top right.

Japonshop is an online ecommerce website dedicated to selling Japanese food.
We loved the unusual (for an ecommerce website) gray and pink palette, the clean products listing, the distinctly visible add to cart button and the funny manga-styled logo. Yummy!

An original and funny tweets box with alternating avatar icons. It really put a smile on our face.

Though comments listing are an essential asset in blog webdesign, we feel they’ve been slightly neglected here in W&P. So here you are an inspirational comments listing from Design snack, a beautiful socially-powered design gallery recently redesigned.
In this case we loved very much the bubble that comes from the avatar without disrupting the listing cohesion of [...]

Let’s have a toast for our newborn inspirational category: Ecommerce websites. From now on we’re going to collect everything related to ecommerce and online shopping: buttons, carts, listing, copywriting…
For a start, here you are Plus de bulles websites, where you can find  a nice crate-like cart (on the top left), a slideshow that displays the [...]