I am a designer who lives in code, entrepreneur, and an idea incubator driven to make our world a better place.
A photographic journey between the buildings of a relentlessly growing city. It is a deep immersion into the city’s thick atmospheres and a visual record of its wildly diverse built environment.
Photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze made a point to look up at the geometry and art that the structures surrounding us create. The entire series of images are available in his book Vertical Horizons.
After countless requests for us to create a theme that shines for long-form essays, articles and high-resolution photography we are excited to release Byron. Even though we spent a lot of time on the photo and text posts, every post type has been thoughtfully designed to create one Style Hatch’s most versatile premium themes yet.
From the beginning Byron was designed to be fully responsive so that your blog looks fantastic from the largest resolution screens, all the way down to mobile devices. Go ahead, try it out!
For a slightly softer and more “fashionable” style check out our alternate demo site for Byron Fashion.
Last week, we retired the blue alien head. New Tumblr users will now get these friendly geometric faces as their default avatar. Adorably, they take their colors from the post type icons.
I love all the playful details that Tumblr builds in and packs away for it’s users.
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61-minutes of people watching shot at 780fps on the Phantom Flex high-speed camera. This is a short clip of the film on display at the Met.
“I wanted the film to be about people. All it needed were magical moments, and there are enough of those happening every moment of any given day.”
—James Nares
“You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.”
Dale Carnegie, from Alex Godin’s post Stop Hustling, Start Listening.
The idea that, without “hustle,” without throwing away nights and weekends, without putting your life on hold for your work, you’ll somehow be more successful, more productive, is ridiculous to me, yet continues to be pushed by participants in our industry left and right. This is, quite simply, insane.
So, dear reader, I implore you: If this post at all rings true, sounds a little too familiar, do yourself a favor — take a vacation. Get away from your work for a bit. Reset. And when you come back, pick some number under 35 and try working that many hours per week, and no more.
I could not agree more with these words of wisdom from Kyle Bragger. When I left the interactive agency world to start Style Hatch I completely eliminated working on the weekends, on average I work less than 40 hours a week, rely on my team more, and frequent vacations with my family disconnected from work. As a result my time in the office is far more focused and productive when I know that my day ends at 5pm.
Often I’m faced with that nagging urge to go back to putting in 80 hour weeks and out hustling the competition, but I would rather choose a pace that I can stick with for a lifetime while valuing time with my wife and three kids.
Work smarter not harder.
Tumblr has today quietly ticked over the 100 million blog mark, with those blogs containing some 44.6 billion posts… This marks significant growth over the last year, of somewhere around 50 million blogs since April of 2012, when it crossed 50 million for the first time.
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“It’s really important to view your life as an entrepreneur as a long journey that consists of many short-term cycles.”
Brad Feld, On Not Mourning Your Failures & Overcoming Burn-Out
Stellar branding, interior and graphic design work by Singapore based Bravo Company for the new Mexout eatery.
Mexout is a fresh-mex eatery in Singapore. We imagine Mexout to be a young eccentric Mexican food expert, or “Mex’pert” as we’ve coined it, who is living in his parents’ basement. … We’ve came up with about 20 hand-drawn logos for them to use in rotation. For the rest of their collaterals, everything is handwritten or hand-drawn. No computer was used for the creation of the graphics.
Pricing has far more to do with physiology and the built in perception of value than simply going with an amount people are willing to pay.
People were offered 2 kinds of beer: premium beer for $2.50 and bargain beer for $1.80. Around 80% chose the more expensive beer.
Now a third beer was introduced, a super bargain beer for $1.60 in addition to the previous two. Now 80% bought the $1.80 beer and the rest $2.50 beer. Nobody bought the cheapest option.
Third time around, they removed the $1.60 beer and replaced with a super premium $3.40 beer. Most people chose the $2.50 beer, a small number $1.80 beer and arounf 10% opted for the most expensive $3.40 beer. Some people will always buy the most expensive option, no matter the price.
You can influence people’s choice by offering different options. Old school sales people also say that offering different price point options will make people choose between your plans, instead of choosing whether to buy your product or not.
“Perfectionism is not the key to success. In fact, research shows that perfectionism is correlated with depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis or missed opportunities. The fear of failing of making mistakes, not meeting people’s expectations, and being criticized keeps us outside of the arena where healthy competition and striving unfolds.”
Brene Brown, written in her new book Daring Greatly
You know what is fun? Making things. Turning a spark of creative insight into a thing that you can show people — a thing that people can use and from which they can derive some iota of pleasure or utility. Start with a simple website. Basic HTML and CSS. No product is too small. In fact, the opposite is true. If you don’t know how to build the first version of your product in a weekend — a usable working version, don’t try to build it. Programming is a means to an end, not an end in itself. You should be trying to do as little of it as possible to make the thing that you want.
The fastest way to make something is to simply start. Don’t get caught in the never ending process of learning, researching, and over-thinking your idea.
Using mirrors and long exposures, Shinichi Higashi captures the movement, bright colors and architecture of Tokyo at night. View the entire Mirror of Symmetry set on Flickr.
Related - Tokyo Sky Drive “Take a journey through the city of Tokyo at night with this video filmed in HD on the Tokyo Monorail and horizontally mirrored.”
Don’t you just hate it when you urgently shoot an email to tech support - who guarantee they will get back to you asap - only to find that the guarantee of them getting back to “asap” you is via an automated confirmation email of having received your call for help. In such instances, we tend to forget that tech support are people too and that they need to go back home :D or just wish that they simply had someone “human” on call 24/7.
Well I wasn’t in such a dire situation with my call for help to Style Hatch. But my support request was emailed over the weekend and I obviously did not expect to get any help until the next day. But as expected, I received the above automated confirmation email. And reading the content of it just made me smile. A simple “automated” email had so much of “human touch” to it. It’s a rather small thing but I loved it that Style Hatch put so much care to add a word of reassurance that they will indeed get back to help me! Having read that email, I would have forgiven Style Hatch even if they weren’t able to get back to me because they had to continue ”fighting the sharks with their bare hands”.
Good design goes well beyond the pixels and typefaces all the way down to the small interactions that a customer has with your company. Now I better get back to wrestling sharks…
Better search!
We’ve completely redone search! Finding the tags and blogs you love is now easier than ever.
Fantastic! Now that the dashboard search is taken care of, I’m hoping to see search working again soon at the blog level.
