Friday August 1, 2008

Design Inpiration from 700+ Condiment Packets!

Just in case you're in the middle of designing a new condiment packet and needed some inspiration, here is a collection of like 700+ condiment packets...
Thursday November 8, 2007

25 Free Professional Quality Fonts

I stumbled across Vitaly Friedman's Notebook today, and his post on 25 free, designer quality fonts. It's a great list that includes: Delicious Fontin AUdimat The Share Font Gentium Lido STF Cardo Day Roman Yanone Kaffeesatz Union Pigiarniq Inuktitut font New Media JustOldFashion 078MKSD Medium Condensed PetitLatin Lacuna ATF Antique SlabTallX...
Monday October 29, 2007

Great Book Promo Site

home Ever since I started writing my book about Conversion Design, I've been obsessed with those book pushing mini-sites. The good ones generally follow a similar, Conversion Design friendly formula, big book cover (hero shot), few navigational options (walled garden), and a prominent 'get it now' button (call to action). Kelly Mooney's new book, ...
Wednesday October 10, 2007

Sometimes, Content is King

So "content is king". You've heard it before- but it's sort of insulting to us designers, right? Maybe. But still, every once in a while I see a killer example of the phrase in action. Take LiveScience for example. The design is very understated. It completely supports the content by exposing lots of information in an easily scannable, unobtrusive ...
Friday September 21, 2007

Email Design Gallery

Campaign Monitor has a great blog/design gallery of their clients' promotional email and newsletter designs. A few of my favorites are: Flirt Creative East Day Spa I Heart Luxe Inside Packaging Aston Workshop Go check them out for yourself.
Friday September 7, 2007

Jim Rapoza’s Top Web Developer Mistakes

I don't know Jim Rapoza. Perhaps he just enjoys irony. I came across his article on Top Web Developer Mistakes and noticed his first point was about the evils of unecessary and excessive clicks. Now look at his presentation below (Perez-esque arrow and comment added for emphasis): jim rapoza "Click, Click, Click - This ...
Friday August 31, 2007

Great Design at NewBoDog.com

home BoDog was in the news for losing their domains in a lawsuit and having to switch to newbodog.com. Still, as interesting as that seems, what I'm posting about is their incredible attention to design. I don't think they redesigned with the move, ...
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