Does your background match your website’s mood?
I was thinking about this issue, when I run into Quoteskine, a tumblr project where Lee Crutchley, a brilliant graphic designer and illustrator, showcases hand-lettered thoughts and quotes written in the space of a moleskine page.
For sketches lovers only.
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Backgrounds
Art in My Coffee is a Tumblr blog and community which catalogs funny latte pics from all around the world. We love the delicatly shaped mug and the general warm, caffeinated color scheme: besides we couldn’t expect less since it’s been designed by Meagan Fisher, the mastermind behind Owltastic.
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Comments & Call-out,
Logos
The ampersand was originally a ligature of the letters E and T, invented to write swiflty the latin conjunction ET, which means “and”.
Maybe because of its tensile form and its fluid swooshes the ampersand is nowadays one of the most en vogue character and quite an obsession for typophiles: so if you too are a [...]
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Typography
When you click on the huge button on the top of Why Every One Loves Tumblr page, you’ll see a big check list menu appearing with four differente choices.
This is a peculiar way to navigate between section that I’ve seen only here but I think that may possibly turn out useful in many other situations.
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Buttons, Bullets & Badges,
Menu & Navigation
Tumblr is one of my favorite example of effective user interaction model. The sign up form is a masterpiece of simplicity and functionality: no confirmation fields to fill in, no threatening messagges or red alerts for mandatory informations or complicated password policy, just a minimal sets of data, a nice copy on the top, a [...]
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Copywriting,
Sign In & Sign Up
How could we possibly resist to this Tumblr theme inspired by Saul Bass’ work?
Saul Bass was a notorious American graphic and logo designer, made famous by his animated motion picture title sequences and I’m quite sure you can recognize some of them here.
Bass’ spirit it’s clearly revoked by the protruding hands, the capricious typography and [...]
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Grids & Listings,
Paginations