In the spirit of 37Signals “[Screens Around Town]” occasional posting, I recently came across some designs and discussions that caught my attention.
Easy Price Quotes
While researching shopping bags for a promotional event, I came upon an innovative pricing table at AbsorbentPrinting.com. Rather than having to bust out a calculator, or click and submit various quote […]
In all of the hubbub that has kept me silent on this here forum, I stumbled across this great post/paper by 37signals. It’s worth a read for the FileMakers, Information Architects and Designers amongst us who can hit a road block on how to layout and design a particuliar piece of layouts/screen/page. Read on.
For those not following the story and the buzz around the Quark logo, Advertising/Design Goodness had posted the story a couple of days ago on the new new logo.
It’s also up on 37Signals blog, it’s fun to follow because of the VERY vocal thoughts on logos and logo design. It is well known that we […]
While working on some more serious and less frivolous posts, I came across this post at The Unofficial Apple Weblog - the video is hysterical, but the veracity of the punchline is alarming. Hit play and see for yourself:
Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.
- Nora Ephron (in The Huffington Post)
I looked at that and just thought: Wow!
Would it be fair to answer the question: “Because I Can.”
I try not to take large political stabs at anyone really on this space of the web, there are more […]
For those not in the know, the folks over at FireWheel design and IconBuffet.com are giving away royalty-free artwork and icons (for both commercial and personal use). Simply, this is a brilliant idea at creating a network of users hawking in the trading of their lovely free creations. All you need to do […]
For those who have not been viewing the site through their favorite newsreader, have noticed the tweaks and changes to the blog design which have been the result of several things:
Most importantly, some of the new designs I’m experimenting with for both Taft and Elvgren
The evolution of Michael’s K2 project
My most recent discovery, through the […]
I’ve always liked tooltips, the ingenious little popups that fade in and out of existence when users place their mouse cursor over certain hotspots on the screen. Generally, they give you more information about a link or describe the purpose of an obscure icon. And recently, in reading an interview with Shaun Inman […]
