The latest albums i’ve bought.I’m liking M. Craft more than Zero 7. But both are great.
M. Craft, Silver & Fire
http://www.musicforears.com/news/
Zero 7, The Garden
http://www.zero7.co.uk/
Silver & Fire has this great feeling to it, retro, laid back but not in the Jack Johnson style. Love it.
Sara De Bondt
http://www.saradebondt.com/
Wicked as stuff from Sara, great typography!
Maki
http://www.makimaki.nl/
A small studio in the Netherlands. Very cool!
Marie Antoinette
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/marieantoinette/
Do you know her? Queen of France, May 10, 1774–September 21, 1792
Looks quite interesting. And,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Antoinette
Might contain spoilers.
WeAr Magazine
http://www.wear-magazine.com/index.html
An interesting mag with editors in Germany, US, Italy & Japan.
Burnkit
http://www.burnkit.com/
Some great stuff from Vancouver, Canada. I wonder what Canada is like.
Makr
http://www.m-a-k-r.com/
Wow, very arty site. I have no idea what is in here?
Eric Sin : Portfolio
http://www.projectsd.net/
Some OK stuff from Eric Sin, it’s like that 3D rendered abstract stuff
which tries to have a meaning…
Eric Baldwin: Portfolio
http://busyandbusy.com/
Art Director/Graphic Designer/Illustrator, I love his illustrations.
Julia Fullerton-Batten : Photographer
http://www.juliafullerton-batten.com/
Some damn cool photography from Julia. You’ve seen her stuff at Getty, NICE.
Stefan Dziallas: Portfolio
http://www.dzialifornia.de/
A 15 year portfolio. Scary.
Jeroen Sikma: Portfolio
http://www.jeroensikma.com/
Some good stuff from Jeroen.
Jenna Levine: Photographer
http://dneexists.com/jrl/
Some very sexy nice stuff from Jenna. The popup is a shame.
Let me upgrade your site!…
Teknomo: Blog
http://www.teknomo.com/
Web 2.0 thrills for geeks.
Luna Maurer: Portfolio
http://www.poly-luna.com/
A very cryptic portfolio holds very cryptic work.
Box Doodle
http://www.neu-e.de/
A collection of doodles on boxes. Ha ha funny. And cute!
We Made This
http://www.we-made-this.com/
A studio from the UK. Very so so stuff.
Hike Design
http://www.hikedesign.co.uk/
Is it me, or are things looking gloomy in the UK design scene.
H30 Media
http://www.h3omedia.co.uk/
Yeah, another UK studio.
Pattern Generator
http://www.sourtricks.com/patterns/
Interesting Flash pattern generator. This should be open source…
This site deserves its own post, because it rocks…
And because I spent 10 minutes trying to look for it on google. Ahem. Anyway:
Basically, it compares fonts (which you can choose) and gives you the CSS for your selection.
Neat eh?
Now, good night, and good luck.
Rehabstudio
http://www.rehabstudio.com/
Hello, Rehabstudio. Great work, great style.
Yahoo Taglines
http://research.yahoo.com/taglines/
This is like, a Flickr ticker timeline. Interesting.
Honey, I wrecked the Porsche
http://www.totallycrap.com/media/wreckedporsche/
Damn.
Marie Mattisson
http://mariemariemarie.com/
Student from Hyperisland looking for work.
Fourth Chamber
http://www.fourthchamber.com/
Online clothing, yeah Duffer!
Apple Pro
http://www.apple.com/pro/
Apple’s clever marketing.
Anna Komonen
http://www.annakomonen.com/anna.html
Stylist Anna Komonen. Nice stuff!
Youare
http://www.youare.com/
A glorified photoblog. But interesting. Horrible navigation.
Barney’s COOP
http://www.barneyscoop.com/
Its like, a young hip version of Barney’s. As if Barney’s was never hip?
Patrick Johnson: Porfolio
http://www.2605.co.uk/
Some promising stuff from this 18yo Brit.
Candy
http://www.candyculture.net/
Downloadable PDF magazine, yet to review…
25 Worst Tech Products from PC World
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,125772,pg,1,00.asp
Great article, and who uses Real Player anyway?
Leo Battersby: Portfolio
http://www.leobattersby.com/
Good collection of work, love his decks.
La Bonne Merveille: Portfolio
http://labonnemerveille.com/
Portfolio of La Bonne Merveille, graphic designer, very pretty sexy print work!
Janpieter Chielens: Blog
http://jpdhch.blogspot.com/
His journey to redesign Comic Sans is worth it.
Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?vt
An interactive way to explore a word.
Paper Clipping
http://paperclipping.blogspot.com/
Another blog about design, sort of good!
Homemade Postcards
http://www.automatedredemption.com/flavorcountry/postcards/index.html
Someone likes collage! Funny. Sort of.
Hereisvers: Paul Vlachou Portfolio
http://www.hereisvers.com/
One page portfolio of Paul Vlachou, some interesting work. You know, that cliche wavy illustration style. But good.
Lot-ek: Architecture / Urban Design
http://www.lot-ek.com/
Nice site from Lot-ek, NY based Architectural/Urban Design etc. co. I like how you directly, ‘get to the point’.
Jeremiah Palecek: Blog
http://jeremiahpalecek.blogspot.com/
A simple blog from Jeremiah brings you 1 painting everyday. Cool!
Debutimages
http://www.debutimages.com
Image bank offering images shot with old fashion cameras, making them really lomo-ish and raw.
Mara Smalley: Portfolio
http://www.marasmalley.com/
A good range of work from Mara, shows a broad range of style…
Typolis: Blog Network
http://typolis.net/home
A nice blog network.
Tables vs CSS
http://www.decloak.com/Dev/CSSTables/CSS_Tables_16.aspx
A huge page on tables vs css.
Chris Lee: Portfolio
http://www.unitedunderwear.com/
Canadian designer shows some interesting print/typo work.
Heliodisplay
http://www.io2technology.com/technology/images
Minority report, here we come!
Adhemas Batista: Portfolio
http://www.adhemas.com/new/
Great work and freestyle-type illustration from 25yo Brazilian
Interact 10 Ways: Information Interactive
http://interact10ways.com/usa/information_interactive.htm
This is truely, freaking, amazing.
Two Faced
http://www.wearitwithpride.com/twofaced/
A project from WIWP, where two ‘famous’ designers collaborate on a portrait piece.
Eric Deis: Beauty & Chaos Through Time And Space
http://ericdeis.com/content/beautyandchaos/beautyandchaos.php
Basically, an online drawing app. Fun!
Container Bay
http://www.fabprefab.com/fabfiles/containerbayhome.htm
Ever wonder what you could do with that container lying around your backyard?…
Castor Canadensis
http://www.castordesign.ca/
A design studio who ‘makes shit look good’. I dunno about that mate.
Andrzej Dragan: Photographer
http://www.andrzejdragan.com/
Almost chilling photography with a dark portrayal of life.
Think Different
http://www.ideasonideas.com/2006/05/think_different
An article on the never ending PC vs Mac flame.
Sam Weber: Illustrator
http://www.sampaints.com/
Artist Sam Weber shares his intricate paintings, surreal and full of soul.
Small Design Office of Jun Lee
http://home.earthlink.net/~smalldesignoffice/
A boutique design studio in NYC. Nice!
Andersen M Studio
http://www.andersenm.com/
Some pretty cool print design & photography here.
Ric Stultz: Illustrator
http://ricstultz.com/portfolio.html
Amazingly simple but real art from Ric Stultz
Sam Baldwin: Portfolio
http://www.sbaldwin.co.uk/
Some interesting experiments in typography.
Kickers
http://www.kickers.co.uk/
A British shoe brand. Eh, so so. I don’t know about the contrast of styles.
Bit of a mess, not in a good way…
A Beautiful View
http://www.abeautifulview.co.uk/
Another blog on design.
I’m working on a new and final version of REASSUME, which is sort of a photoblog or photo gallery of my various excursions. The site is administered by Pixelpost, and presented in a Flash through tricky XML conversions, and can default back to the HTML Pixelpost template.
Anyway, i’ve been looking around and wondering if I should incorporate a back button to my projects. I figure, I learn once, I learn it forever. Well, until Macromedia ahem. Adobe comes up with some clever solution later on.
Some articles i’ve found are:
Macromedia Developer: Pet Market
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/blueprint/articles/back_button.html
History Keeper
http://www.unfocus.com/Projects/HistoryKeeper/
(Very confusing)
Deep Linking: Justin D Smith
http://www.chakramedia.com/deeplink-backbutton/index.html
(Very confusing)
Deep Linking by Justin D Smith didn’t work so well for me. Well, it did work, but the round and round loop of passing things around is just a bit confusing.
History Keeper seems just as confusing. I still have to attempt the Pet Store. So, i’ll let you know how that goes…
So I got an Asus WL-167g to replace that horrible D-Link wireless dongle I purchased , and it works like a charm!
Other geeky hardware I picked up was a V-Gear Landisk (which is amazing, I might pick up another one), and a 300gig Seagate Drive, because the RAW photos from my Canon 350d are space hoggers…
Joseph Kosinski: Director
http://www.josephkosinski.com/
Art Director portfolio, nice site.
Prickie
http://www.prickie.com/
Everyone loves badges!
Magnum In Motion
http://magnuminmotion.com/
Stunning Magnum photography as a collection of visual essays.
Amy Elkins: Photography
http://www.amyelkins.blogspot.com/
A very cool, very inspiring photoblog.
Milk & Cookies
http://www.milkandcookies.be/index2.html
An interesting little studio in Belgium
DesignBum
http://www.designbum.net/
Motion/Graphic/Everything designer. Very slick!
Sixfive
http://www.sixfive.com/
Creative studio in the UK. Simple site.
TurnbullGrey
http://www.turnbullgrey.co.uk/
Another Brit studio who specializes in Print.
Digit
http://www.digitlondon.com/
Yeah, they’re still going strong!
Perfect Fools
http://www.perfectfools.com/
A Swedish creative agency.
Interesting site, though bit iffy about the usability.
Honeyee: Jeff Staple
http://blog.honeyee.com/jeff/
An interesting blog from Jeff Ng, multi-disciplined designer.
Newsmap
http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm
Visually interpreted news feeds on one page. Wicked.
Nele Goetz has created 20 fantastic pixel fonts which are downloadable for free.
Dude, if you’re reading this, you should be charging for these, they’re freaking brilliant!
http://pixelfonts.style-force.net/
While you’re at it, check out http://www.style-force.net/ , some bloody good stuff there too.
Apple Store Fifth Avenue
http://www.apple.com/retail/fifthavenue/
God, New York looks wonderful. Not to mention the Apple Store.
Violaine Barrois
http://www.violainebarrois.com/
Sexy one-page portfolio site with great work from Spaniard Violaine Barrois
Laboratorios Exiko
http://www.exiko.com/
A laboratory/product development site, Spanish again, very simple.
Katja Gretzinger: Gestaltung
http://www.mikati.net/
Porfolio of graphic designer Katja Gretzinger
MrMr
http://www.mr-mr.org/
Doodles galore.
Pete Huges: Portfolio
http://workswatch.co.uk/
A nice collection of work from Brit Pete Huges
Grow Interactive
http://www.thisisgrow.com/
Just stumbled upon, from Josh Spear’s site. Nice
Josh Spear: Designers Blog
http://www.joshspear.com/
Nicely designed Wordpress blog
Kyle Reed: Illustrator
http://reedefine.com/
I love this sort of, mosaic-cut-up-multi-layered-multi-dimensional style.
10 Stupid Mistakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/10-stupid-mistakes-made-by-the-newly-self-employed/
An article to ponder about if you’re just starting out.
We Should Do It All
http://www.wsdia.com/
Great introduction which says it all.
Paul Empson
http://www.paulempson.com/
Nice-ish editorials from Mr Empson in Australia.
Acte3
http://www.acte3.com/
A very mysterious but cool photography site.
Umeric
http://www.umeric.com/
Australian motion design, nice, sexy, interesting.
Bruno Costa: Graphic & Interactive
http://www.vertica.org/
Portfolio of Bruno Costa. Nice stuff.
William Evans: Graphic Designer
http://www.wevans.co.uk/
Portfolio of William Evans, some good Illustrations!
Public Studio: Jason Gnewikow
http://publicstudio.org/
Jason Gnewikow’s portfolio of online, motion, sound.
Virtual Office: Setting Up
http://www.dodeci.com/?p=28
An article on setting up a virtual office.
SoCivilized
http://www.socivilized.com/
Portfolio of Jarrod Drysdale. Nice style. I like!
TheToke
http://photo.thetoke.com/
Photoblog. Interesting!
Commonbrand
http://www.commonbrand.com/
Some average-ish stuff.
Restless Photography
http://restlessphotography.blogspot.com/
Nice photoblog.
10Ways from GettyImages
http://interact10ways.com/usa/home.asp
Interactive experiences which explore visual language.
Transformers CGI Test
http://www.blackfilm.com/20060512/features/transformertest_video.shtml
Robots in disguise!
Gediminas Siaulys
http://www.shadowtricks.com/
A sketchbook of illustrator/designer Gediminas Siaulys. Very sketchy.
Doug Alves: Porfolio
http://www.nacionale.cc/
Some interesting work.
