This comments listing, taken from Jon Tan‘s website, is an excellent specimen of good type treatment (the text is consistently set on the same baseline across the two columns), minimalistic use of horizontal rules to divide content (single and double) and just a gray/black scheme for the text treatment. Simplicity is not that simple, is [...]
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Comments & Call-out
Granted that teehan+lax website portfolio is one of those sites that cannot fail to be in your favorites, we found this “launch site” button symbolizing an external link an agreeable change from the expected arrow icon.
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Buttons, Bullets & Badges
The things you don’t find on Internet! See what I found on Smashing Magazine while they were busy doing some clean up for their new website.
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Error pages
When Virb was launched, people acclaimed it as a sort of new Myspace. Actually, time has proved it’s much more: Virb is a very smart and elegant multi-media collective purpose-built for creative people who want to share online their arts, photography, music… Since the main audience is likely to be composed by enthusiastic and, let’s [...]
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Icons
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 [...]
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Tables & Infographics
A List Apart has a nice illustration and detailed text for its 404 page.
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Error pages