Minimalist web design it’s one of our (many) recurrent thoughts when reviewing websites. It’s really tough to come to inventive, not bare-looking solutions when you strip a website of every graphics assests and you’re not allowed to play any of the usual webdesign tricks. So we really loved this simple HTML menu, a nested list [...]
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Menu & Navigation
Psdtemplate is a really handy blog, full of resources for webdesigners and rich in tutorials and tips (and obviously it’s in our favs list).
We loved the rather fully equipped rating system displayed in the comments listing, by which you can add/remove score to a comment and even submitting it to admin’s attention (exclamation mark).
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Comments & Call-out,
Ratings
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 can [...]
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Comments & Call-out,
Copywriting
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!
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Copywriting,
Error pages
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 heading.
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Copywriting,
Error pages
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 put it [...]
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Menu & Navigation,
Typography
You’re looking for an Owl and what you get? A one-toothed cat photograph.
That’s what happens when you run into Meagan Fisher’s inspirational 404 error page.
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Error pages
Shopping lists is a fab typographical project: this blog’s aim is turning little lost shopping lists into typography posters, showing that some poetry can be found also in a neglected piece of paper, trashed onto some store’s floor.
For each saved specimen, Shopping Lost displays the original shopping list, who found it, where it was found [...]
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Typography
This loooong 404 error page text from Jason Santa Maria’s blog made me chuckle.
Oops! There isn’t even a remotely meaningful page here; not unlike the rest of this site. At least some of the other pages have some pretty pictures to look at. Why don’t you try starting again from the front door? Or maybe [...]
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Copywriting,
Error pages
TehCpeng is Shen Hang’s personal blog: Shen’s a Malaysian engineering student, a capable photograph and a devotee of the-C-peng which is this visually stunning tea drink.
While we’re looking for where to find the-C-peng in Milan, we’d like to show you the cafeteria badge hanging on the top right corner and the red/yellow tabs, you can find [...]
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Buttons, Bullets & Badges,
Comments & Call-out
Letterpress styled text seems to be quite a popular typographic trend and I’ve been positively struck by the way it’s displayed on Tyler Thompson’s blog because I think in this case it really helps users with reading negative text.
Tyler, creative director at Squarespace, simply applies the css3 text-shadow property, that’s been available in Safari since the first [...]
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Typography
We’re definitely happy when our brave colleagues dare to use non-standard fonts on their websites. In fact, compared to graphic designers, our lives are gloomy and sad, having to deal with a so narrow typographic range and we all rejoice when, instead of feeling deprived and miserable, some of us has the guts to break [...]
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Typography
I was quite fed up with charts I’ve been drawing for the web site I’m working at, finding boring and pitiful that I had to deal with simple and non-creative forms (such as bars or pie-charts) while other designers, with less restrictions, are able to design beautiful and inspired infographics.
I’ve started dreaming about using complex visual [...]
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Tables & Infographics
The paging fills a block of the grid, otherwise blank.
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Paginations
A List Apart has a nice illustration and detailed text for its 404 page.
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Error pages