Batelco Directory
Cleaver ad and beautifully executed art direction for Bahrain’s equivalent of the Yellow Pages. Created by Supparat Thepparat. See the Behance project for more process images and full credits .
“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.”
Blaise Pascal
From Zen Focus’ article Three Little Habits to Find Focus
Citrus - Make It Fresh
Created with a pallet of illustrations and graphics, Moscow event agency Citrus’ new dynamic identity system comes across as both fresh and playful. Created by Roma Erohnovich.
The only critique I have with the animated version is that the tweening could use a bit of love.
Welcome to Life
“A science fiction story about what you see when you die. Or: the Singularity, ruined by lawyers.” Created by Tom Scott
Timothy J. Reynolds
The latest Desktop Wallpaper Project submission on The Fox is Black features one of the geometric landscapes created by Timothy J. Reynolds. Check out more of his rendered landscapes on Dribbble.
“Paying attention in a distracted world: it’s like bringing a gun to a knife fight.”
James Shelley
Getting Share Counts
Until we can get Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, and Pinterest to sign a peace treaty and standardize on a common size for share buttons, their mismatched and unaligned buttons will continue to be a thorn in every designer’s side.
For now our best bet is to simply roll your own button with a share count for each service. Today I did a bit of digging and put together a quick Gist to get share counts using the platform’s APIs.
Check out Sharrre if you want a jQuery plugin that covers all the share buttons and much more.
“The quality of your UX shows how much your respect or disrespect your customers”
Alexis Ohanian - co-founder of Reddit, Hipmunk and Breadpig
NYC | VSCO CAM
Last week while we were in NYC for Behance’s 99% Conference I fell in love with Visual Supply Co’s new VSCO CAM iPhone app. With minimal processing options VSCO CAM does a great job emulating the film styles for the likes of Kodak Tri-X, Fuji Superia, Ilford HP5 and many others. Here are a few shots I captured while exploring the city. Follow me on Instagram for other examples.
Letterboxd
Congrats to Matthew Buchanan, Mike Harding and team on launching Letterboxd to the public!
Letterboxd is a social site for sharing your taste in film. Use it as a diary to record your opinion about films as you watch them, or just to keep track of films you’ve seen in the past. Rate, review and tag films as you add them. Find and follow your friends to see what they’re enjoying. Keep a watchlist of films you’d like to see, and make lists about any aspect of film, for example: favorite heist films. Import historic data from several popular apps, and add films to your US Netflix instant queue directly from the site.
To top it all of the design and user interaction is beyond beautiful.
In the theme "Origin West" you just released, how on earth did you extract a user's most recent Instagram shots and display them? I've been trying to figure it out but I just can't! (It looks beautiful, by the way.)
Asked by
Anonymous
Origin West is our first theme to include the user’s Instagram feed. In order to access the user’s feed they will first have to authorize your application (in this case, a theme). Check out the Instagram developer site for their oAuth details.
I have seen a few themes put together a Tumblr static page to send the authorization request as well as return the access token, but we simply put together a quick page at stylehatch.co/instagram.
We’re working on setting up the Style Hatch Github account where we are planning our process as well as a few other jQuery plugins that we use, like our resizable custom photoset grid.
Origin West
Our 16th Style Hatch premium Tumblr theme is finally live! With Origin West theme I set my well-worn creative hat to the side and put on my developer hat to bring Nick Jones’ design to life. With a highly unique layout (responsive too with a mobile version), high contrast and lots of animating details who knows if it’ll be a popular theme but I certainly had a blast developing it. Check out the demo site at originwest.stylehatch.co!
One of the beautiful things about designing products rather than servicing clients is how you have complete freedom to take on the experimental and challenging projects. We could probably make far more money by focusing on popular design trends, quickly cranking out more themes or skipping the details, but to be honest we’re having way too much fun releasing themes with lots of love and attention.
If you have any questions about the theme send us an email at originwest@stylehatch.co or a tweet @stylehatch.
“If there’s something you want to build, but the tech isn’t there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.”
Dennis Crowley (via collaborativefund)
“Don’t ignore your dreams; don’t work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy.”
Paul Graham, The Top of My Todo List
Based on the top five regrets of the dying, Paul Graham added these five items to the top of his ongoing todo list.
Brain Farm Digital Cinema 2012 Reel
Equipped with ultra high end cameras and a helicopter with a missile grade gyroscope, Brain Farm knows how to beautifully capture the impressive shots.
See their profile filmed for The Creators Project previously posted to hear how Curt Morgan’s career evolved from snowboarding to filmmaking after a major injury.
