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...
Tuesday November 13, 2007

Createthe.com

Top Createthe.com is an interactive agency for luxury, fashion, and retail brands. I stumbled across their site as I was admiring the Marc Jacobs website. All their work has a very similar look and feel, but it's all done really well. Their work seems to be full flash and while it doesn't work ...
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 ...
Tuesday October 2, 2007

Fashion/Shopping Market Study

Decided to keep a list of fashion/shopping sites for inspiration. http://www.bluefly.com/ http://www.eluxury.com/ http://www.shopintuition.com/ http://www.revolveclothing.com/ http://www.smartbargains.com http://www.dashaboutique.com/ http://www.shefinds.com http://www.lauramercier.com/ Recurring theme seems to be squared, hard edges- different from much of the cutesy, rounded cornery Web 2.0 stuff I come across. Also of interest is Lucky magazine's sites we love ...
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.
Tuesday September 11, 2007

Error Pages with Character

503 error Error pages are often the most overlooked pages in terms of thought and design. Most of your users will never see an error page- so why 'waste time' thinking about it, right? WRONG. While they may not get many page views (hopefully), people that do come across an error page  are at an important crossroads. They realize ...
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