Safari Extensions Gallery

With the release of Safari 5.0.1 Apple finally launched the Safari extension gallery built into the browseer.  Already there are quite a few useful extensions available like the official Twitter extension, Rapportive and Coda Notes.

BBQ War

BBQWar began as an idea by Ismael Burciaga while he was barbecuing one day and posting images via Twitter. A couple of Ismael’s friends also began tweeting tantalizing pictures of what they were grilling. Soon it became obvious that a grilling “war” had been unofficially declared, so Ismael began placing #BBQWar on his tweets to his friends with an image attached. Several weeks later, the site ‘BBQWar’ was birthed.

Inspire Well Premium Tumblr Theme

This morning my second premium theme, Inspire Well, finally went live!  Inspire Well is a flexible and modular premium Tumblr theme that is perfect for creative inspiration, photo/video blog for your new iPhone 4, designer’s portfolio, and documenting family life.

With Inspire Well 1.0 you have complete creative freedom in customizing your site and control over the unique grid layout that lets you post small, medium and large posts. With 38 options in the Appearance menu you can upload your own background, change the theme colors, adjust the layout, and define icon links to 20 popular social sites.  Inspire Well supports the full array of Tumblr functionality, 3rd-party support for Disqus, social sharing on Facebook and Twitter, lightbox for full-res post images and many more services planned in the future (free) updates.

Check out the primary demo site for Inspire Well as well as the demo sites showing how it’s used as a mobile photo blog, creative portfolio, and sharing family life.

Little & Big Ideas

Little ideas become big.  Big ideas become little.

Portland based designer Frank Chimero created a series of inspirational design posters on the design process.  If you’re not yet following Frank on Tumblr I recommend you follow his “curiosity, questioning, and answering, done through the lens of design”.

FontFonter

Type foundry Font Shop put together a tool that allows you to try Web FontFonts on any website. See how a typography facelift would look on your site.

200pt Brand Development

Barnickel Design created the 200pt brand to showcase their art print and graphic tees. 

The bisected diamond logo is a tribute to Sébastien Truchet, the French mathematician who created the standard for measuring type that our modern point system comes from. He also created a tiling system where an almost infinite number of patterns can be created by arranging his tiles in different ways.. we took Truchet’s tile and rotated it 45º to get our logo. The hand stamped, inexact application of the logo aims to further emphasize our interest in the reconciliation of opposites.

Via Behance