Jonathan Moore

Citrus - Make It Fresh Created with a pallet of illustrations...

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:20:00 -0700

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...

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:38:46 -0700

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...

Thu, 10 May 2012 08:49:37 -0700

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."

Wed, 09 May 2012 09:44:37 -0700

“Paying attention in a distracted world: it’s like bringing a gun to a knife fight.”

- James Shelley

Getting Share Counts

Tue, 08 May 2012 17:17:00 -0700

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"

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:25:11 -0700

“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...

Tue, 08 May 2012 10:36:44 -0700

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...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:33:57 -0700

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.)

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:07:01 -0700

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...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:49:03 -0700

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..."

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:45:07 -0700

“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..."

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:53:11 -0700

“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...

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:52:44 -0700

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.

Jon Duenas Photography Double exposed images shot by Portland...

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:41:00 -0700

Jon Duenas Photography

Double exposed images shot by Portland based fashion and fine art photographer Jon Duenas.

Hillman Curtis | 1961-2012 Hillman Curtis was one of my...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:58:08 -0700

Hillman Curtis | 1961-2012

Hillman Curtis was one of my strongest sources of inspiration early on in my career as a ‘new media designer’, and as he reinvented himself from a web designer to film maker it was encouragement for me to take huge risks in my career.

“It’s one of those things that I should always remember, to try and take the courageous route.”
—Hillman Curtis: On Reinvention and Taking the Courageous Path

Life is far too short to not take the courageous route.

Aaron James Draplin - CreativeMornings The highly colorful and...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:39:34 -0700

Aaron James Draplin - CreativeMornings

The highly colorful and entertaining Draplin presents “The DDC 50 Point Plan to Ruin Yer Career”. Over 50 minutes he’ll take you through points covering No.6 Get out there and get dirty, No.15 Exhibit a little humility, No.40 Don’t worry about awards, No.43 Go pantless and No.50 Be thankful for everything.

"The trick about writing is to write. There is no trick."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:47:10 -0700

“The trick about writing is to write. There is no trick.”

- Glenn Fleishman

Story Centered Design

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:39:13 -0700

Story Centered Design:

Once you’re dealing with an app that has a dozen screens and hundreds of states, you can’t hold the whole product in your head like a poster. I noticed that our team was emailing around individual screens, talking about individual screens, and naming all the screens just to keep track. But we weren’t paying any attention to how the screens and features fit together.

We were thinking of the product as a set of screens. But there’s a problem with working this way: it’s not at all how people experience the product in real life. People use products in little flows that last anywhere from 30 seconds to a few minutes. […]

A product is not a set of screens — it’s the stories those screens enable.

Don’t let your homepage or primary view of your app be like a great opening chapter to a novel followed by disconnected and boring rubbish. I think it’s time to look at my own process again and see what can be improved.

On a side note the Design Staff blog is a gold mine of a blog for designers, entrepreneurs and researchers.

Heavenly Vaults Full of overwhelming craftsmanship and detail,...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:53:38 -0700

Heavenly Vaults

Full of overwhelming craftsmanship and detail, photographer David Stephenson captures the vaults and ceilings of European architecture from Romanesque to Gothic.

Theme Updates - Spotify & Pinterest

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:08:55 -0700

Theme Updates - Spotify & Pinterest:

As soon as we got the details on the new Spotify player on Tumblr, Jess and I put in some long hours over the last two days (and nights) to pulled off major updates to all 15 of our Style Hatch Tumblr themes.

In addition to support for the Spotify player, we added Pinterest’s ‘pin it’ button to the share options. We will be publishing a full list of changes soon since some of the themes got quite a bit of additional love.

If you have any questions send us an email at support@stylehatch.co or hit us up on Twitter @stylehatch. Now we can get back to wrapping up a bunch of new themes we have lined up!