Jonathan Moore

Lobulo Design - New Era Introducing Lobulo Design’s...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:00:02 -0800

Lobulo Design - New Era Introducing

Lobulo Design’s papercraft submission for the New Era Introducing art gallery. Check out the making of video on Lobulo Design’s portfolio.

Pattern Tap 2.0 Focusing on the best examples of user experience...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:33:21 -0800

Pattern Tap 2.0

Focusing on the best examples of user experience patterns and design styles, the newly relaunched Pattern Tap 2.0 is working on “improving the intelligence of our interaction design industry”.

Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views A Month And Harder To Scale Than Twitter

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:10:34 -0800

Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views A Month And Harder To Scale Than Twitter:

One of the common patterns across successful startups is the perilous chasm crossing from startup to wildly successful startup. Finding people, evolving infrastructures, servicing old infrastructures, while handling huge month over month increases in traffic, all with only four engineers, means you have to make difficult choices about what to work on. This was Tumblr’s situation. Now with twenty engineers there’s enough energy to work on issues and develop some very interesting solutions.

A great writeup on the growth challenges Tumblr has faced from infrastructure to hiring the right team of engineers.

Dusty Signs Traditional hand-lettering by Dan Madsen.

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:30:06 -0800

Dusty Signs

Traditional hand-lettering by Dan Madsen.

Design to Inspire Confidence

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:15:05 -0800

Design to Inspire Confidence:

Inspire confidence with instructions that help users make the jump from one service to another. These need to be rooted in the user’s current knowledge of the system, not their future behavior.

The key well received design will always come from a perspective of empathy for the viewer, user, client or culture. More on the topic of design and empathy:

"Don’t ignore your fear. Acknowledge it. As soon as you know you’re going to give that..."

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:52:06 -0800

“Don’t ignore your fear. Acknowledge it. As soon as you know you’re going to give that speech or design that training program, take a quiet moment and experience the fear that comes with the importance of the project. … Resist the temptation to minimize your anxiety. That’s a false macho response and it lacks courage. It’s also counterproductive; it gives power to the fear, almost guaranteeing that it will haunt you and prevent your progress.”

- Peter Bergman, from his article How to Start the Big Project You’ve Been Putting Off

12:31 Using an animation of 1,871 slices of a human body from...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:08:51 -0800

12:31

Using an animation of 1,871 slices of a human body from the Visible Human Project, Croix Gagnon and photographer Frank Schott created long-exposure photographs capturing “light paintings” of the body floating in space.

In 1993, a convicted murderer was executed. His body was given to science, segmented, and photographed for medical research. In 2011, we used photography to put it back together.

Read more about Project 12:31. For a far less creepy example of light painting with long-exposure photograph and details on how it was accomplished, check out Making Future Magic: iPad Light Painting.

"Moving fast enables us to build more things and learn faster. However, as most companies grow, they..."

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:17:00 -0800

“Moving fast enables us to build more things and learn faster. However, as most companies grow, they slow down too much because they’re more afraid of making mistakes than they are of losing opportunities by moving too slowly. We have a saying: “Move fast and break things.” The idea is that if you never break anything, you’re probably not moving fast enough.”

- from Mark Zuckerberg’s founder letter in Facebook’s S-1 to IPO

Joy Ride A short film by the highly recognized photographer...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:16:19 -0800

Joy Ride

A short film by the highly recognized photographer Sandro shot with the upcoming Nikon D800.

Valio Con 2012 I’m excited to announce that I was invited...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:15:34 -0800

Valio Con 2012

I’m excited to announce that I was invited to speak at Valio Con 2012 in San Diego this summer. Drew Wilson and the Valio Con team have put together an amazing line-up of speakers that I am looking forward to hearing.

Rich Thornett, co-founder and developer of Dribbble
Cameron Koczon, behind Gimmebar and co-founder of Brooklyn Beta
Ian Collins, designer and Javascript developer for Simple
Kyle Neath, director of design for GitHub
Garrett Murray, founder and creative director of Karbon
Krystyn Heide, senior product designer at Squarespace
David Desandro, front-end developer at nclud and creator of the popular Isotope
Dom Leca, ceo and co-founder of Sparrow
More to be announced soon

Last year’s Valio Con was by far the best web and design conference I have attended in quite a while. This year the conference takes place June 7-10th at the Hyatt Mission Bay resort in San Diego. The $999 conference pass includes three nights hotel stay, beach bonfires, breakfast, local catered lunches and a chance to hang out with some of the best designers and developers our industry.

Check out the Valio Con 2012 site for more details.

A Friday afternoon snapshot of my desk at the Style Hatch...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:21:58 -0800

A Friday afternoon snapshot of my desk at the Style Hatch office.

Coco Theme Check out our latest Tumblr premium theme Coco! It...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:01:28 -0800

Coco Theme

Check out our latest Tumblr premium theme Coco! It comes in three beautiful styles, but you can always customize it like the comic and art blog Magical Game Time with a few tweaks in the appearances menu.

Digital shop, Style Hatch and designer Regina Casaleggio, are pleased to welcome the latest arrival to the scene, Coco, a sweet, charming, sophisticated, theme with lots of heart and soul. This beauty is “out of the box” ready to enjoy and be shown to the world. To keep this one-of-a-kind masterpiece from being altered from its original state of beauty the customization features are limited.

Buy Coco for $49 and take advantage of our stellar support - coco@stylehatch.co

Really this post was a good excuse to try out Tumblr’s new KILLER highlighted post feature. You guys are pretty brilliant!

Instagram Founder Kevin Systrom Fantastic interview of Kevin...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:30:05 -0800

Instagram Founder Kevin Systrom

Fantastic interview of Kevin Systrom by Kevin Rose taking you through his upbringing and background leading up his first startup Burbn which eventually became instagr.am.

Exploding Sugar Armed with a pellet rifle, homemade flash and...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:49:10 -0800

Exploding Sugar

Armed with a pellet rifle, homemade flash and camera photographer Alan Sailer captures exploding objects from sugary treats to troll dolls. Check out his massive collection of explosions on Flickr.

Beautiful web type

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:26:09 -0800

Beautiful web type:

A showcase of the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory.

Out of the 404 web fonts currently on Google Fonts, Chad Mazzola put together a collection of some of the better fonts available. Watch the repo on GitHub.

Additionally Sacha Greif recently published a great article, Google Webfonts That Don’t Suck.

Marina Bay Sands Base Jump If I’m ever in Singapore,...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:34:42 -0800

Marina Bay Sands Base Jump

If I’m ever in Singapore, staying at the Marina Bay Sands hotel will be at the top of my list solely because of their zero line pool up on the 57th floor. This last New Years Day seven base jumpers used the Skypark deck to get their adrenaline fix as they leaped off the edge.

YouTube - One Hour Per Second To celebrate YouTube’s...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:26:35 -0800

YouTube - One Hour Per Second

To celebrate YouTube’s milestone of having one hour of video uploaded ever second they launch One Hour Per Second filled with hilarious collection of facts, animations and sound effects to help break it down into terms we all can understand.

In 7 minutes of uploads to YouTube, the Nyan cat persists in saying “Nyan” over 6,048,000 times.

Thanks for the link Jess

adidas NEO Label It interesting watching brands navigate their...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:04:09 -0800

adidas NEO Label

It interesting watching brands navigate their way onto Tumblr. The ones that do well clearly understand the unique culture behind the Tumblr community. Brands and everyone on Tumblr should take these guidelines for posting to heart in this order (Source - Seth Godin | The TED imperatives):

Be interested.
Be generous.
Be interesting.
Connect.

As a bonus they did a fantastic job customizing our Style Hatch premium theme Juuvy. Other brands that we have noticed who are doing great job on Tumblr and using one of our themes:

Kate Spade (Swell)
Nike ID (MARS)
Puma (Juuvy)
Alternative Apparel (Swell)
Travel Channel (Atlantic Noir)
Lucky Magazine (Swell)
Men’s Health (Juuvy)
Quiksilver (Swell/Atlantic Noir hybrid)
X Games (Backburner)
Time Magazine (Inspire Well)
Ben and Jerry (Nova)
Fab (MARS)
Photojojo (Inspire Well)

Soundmachines Three units, which are resembling standard record...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:41:00 -0800

Soundmachines

Three units, which are resembling standard record players, translate concentric visual patterns into control signals for further processing in any music software. The rotation of the discs, each holding three tracks, can be synced to a sequencer.

The Berlin-based studio The Product for “spatial and media-related design” created the Soundmachines for VW’s premiere of the 2012 Beetle at the IAA Motor Show.

Nick Agin Illustrations and sketches based off of common figures...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:14:00 -0800

Nick Agin

Illustrations and sketches based off of common figures of speech by NYC graphic designer Nick Agin. Check out more of his shots on Dribbble.