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 patterns and design styles, the newly relaunched Pattern Tap 2.0 is working on “improving the intelligence of our interaction design industry”.
Dusty Signs
Traditional hand-lettering by Dan Madsen.
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:
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.
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!
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.
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.
Design Sets the Tone at a New Start-Up Square
Square’s front door to customers is a smartphone application. Square has to provide the simplest experience possible, Mr. Dorsey believes, because, along with good design, it will evoke trust and confidence in a new financial institution that lives in a smartphone.
Yet another example that strategic differentiation begins with design.
“Love your craft everyday. Design the simplest, most delightful product you can. Write organized, performant and readable code. Watch people use your product and make it better for them. Improve your work by learning from others and from your own experiences. Help create a better web for its 2 billion users.”
Dave Gamache
From his article Craftsmanship - Quality, Passion, and Excellence
The Ajax Experience
Commissioned by the 100 year-old Ajax Amsterdam football club, Sid Lee Architecture in collaboration with gsmprjct° created a truly immersive fan experience for the legendary team.
Walking into the museum you go through the hall of “Giants” visualizing the important club members and glorious moments. Through the hall you travel into The Ajax Academy filled with multimedia rooms and interactive training areas. Once you have practiced your technique and speed hear an inspiring speech from the club’s coach and head into the stadium to hear the roar of the crowd.
Video Walkthrough & Experience
Apparently I’m a fan of Sid Lee’s work since this is the third time I have posted one of their projects. They certainly deserve the recognition. Also see Bota Bota and Redbull Amsterdam HQ.
10 Mega Business Trends To Watch For In 2012
As long as you can weed through the drastically over-written, buzzword oozing writing style, this is a fantastic article mapping out some broad trends in business for 2012. Trend number seven should be of note for any designers or design focused brands:
Strategic differentiation begins with great design. Strategic differentiation provides a desired reputation, creates a defensible competitive advantage, and influences preferential behaviors in the value chain. In a market of rapid commoditization of products, shrinking product cycle times, and global delivery of services, organizations can barely create and sustain market differentiation. […] Differentiation tools include positioning strategy, design thinking, and innovation program that drive next generation customer experience.
My translation without all the buzzword bullshit - Design matters. A lot. If you can provide an experience for you customers that delightfully surprises them, your brand will sit head and shoulders above the competition.
I Am Always Hungry - Short Reel
Inspiring new design and motion demo reel from multi-disciplinary design studio IAAH lead by Nessim Higson.
(via danielmall)
Conformations No. 3
Hand embroidered, oversized postcards by mixed-media artist Shaun Kardinal. Best of all Shaun is on Tumblr and frequently posts his handmade creations—go follow him!
Redbull Amsterdam HQ
Filled with wall-to-wall polygons, Sid Lee Architecture transformed the old shipbuilding factory into a new and creative headquarters for Redbull Amsterdam. Using a juxtaposition of ideas—light vs dark, arts vs industry—the new headquarters is a perfect fit for the Redbull brand and location.
See more images and details on the space at Yatzer’s full article on Redbull’s Amsterdam HQ. Photography by Ewout Huibers
Additional post featuring Sid Lee’s work - Bota Bota
