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YES - Penguin Design Series
Beautiful restrained modernism by Yes for Penguin
book  design  inspiration  typography  modern 
january 2009 by gordonbrander
Feltron Eight: 2008 annual report
Gorgeous web site design with a subtle spackle/glow texture, transparency and a serif font.
serif  design  web  inspiration  typography  minimalism 
january 2009 by gordonbrander
Anderson Cooper 360
Anderson Cooper is meh, but this is a well-designed news blog theme.
journalism  design  inspiration  wordpress  *** 
january 2009 by gordonbrander
The places we live
A brilliantly executed interactive documentary site about slums: where 1/3 of the world's urban population lives.
design  journalism  web  newmedia  inspiration  photo  art  multimedia  housing  world  poverty 
january 2009 by gordonbrander
The Grid System
Compiling resources for grid-based design. Nice Brockmann-esque site, too.
grid  web  design  inspiration  layout  typography  learn 
december 2008 by gordonbrander
Do You Apologize?
Beautiful design motifs. Solid, bright colors paired with dark, rich textures. Nice curves.
flash  web  design  inspiration 
november 2008 by gordonbrander
spacecollective.org recent
Creative grid-based post layout, with Ajax loading. Fun.
web  design  grid  ajax  UI  blog  inspiration 
october 2008 by gordonbrander
Contrast. We do web apps. We're pretty good
Fan-freaking-tastic. Bringing the blown-away-by experience flash sites have to simple standards-based design.
design  inspiration  css  web  portfolio  swiss 
october 2008 by gordonbrander
The Art of the Title Sequence
A well produced blog detailing great and classic movie title sequences.
design  art  inspiration  film 
october 2008 by gordonbrander
The creative web design portfolio of Albert Lo
Perfectly crisp and slick portfolio. Nice use of texture and imagery.
web  design  inspiration  portfolio 
october 2008 by gordonbrander
Buck
Seldom is Courier so well used as in this colorful but minimal design portfolio site.
web  design  inspiration  typography  portfolio 
october 2008 by gordonbrander
FrancescoMugnai.com - Web Manager - Web Designer
One of those single-serve personal webpages. This one sets itself apart through the use of unusual type and just enough of a splash of color.
inspiration  web  design  typography  portfolio  minimalism 
october 2008 by gordonbrander
FutonMedia
Brilliant, beautiful, giant Helvetica. And that classy spotlight background effect.
design  inspiration  typography  minimalism 
october 2008 by gordonbrander
dConstruct 2008
Beautiful design as usual from this year's dConstruct. This time, it has a bit more of a swiss bent.
design  inspiration  web  swiss 
september 2008 by gordonbrander
Pattern Tap: Interface Collection for Design Inspiration
It's another design inspiration gallery, only this time organized by pattern, e.g. "breadcrumbs", "backgrounds", "audio", etc. A much more useful way to do it, really.
design  inspiration  web  UI 
september 2008 by gordonbrander
Signalnoise.com - The art of James White
Gorgeous colorful, glossy, geometric graphics with a slightly retro feel.
art  design  inspiration  illustration 
august 2008 by gordonbrander
Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects
A classy up-scale website with tasteful and simple Javascript enhancements. Gorgeous architectural work as well.
architecture  art  design  inspiration  portfolio 
july 2008 by gordonbrander
Hitotoki : A Narrative Map of Tokyo
The design is simple and lush all at once. It is also personal, with hand-drawn lines.
art  web  design  inspiration  hyperlocal  mashup 
june 2008 by gordonbrander
Bright Creative
Dave Shea's agency website. Nice fade-in brightness effect for the navigation and logo (via jquery).
web  design  inspiration  javascript 
june 2008 by gordonbrander
memo NY
A graphic design firm website that does it's job really, really well.
web  design  portfolio  inspiration 
may 2008 by gordonbrander
Decipher
An intriguing mini-site. Reminds me of something from the era of Saul Bass.
design  inspiration  web 
may 2008 by gordonbrander
MOKA ultra pop apparel
I love how web design has evolved, but sometimes I miss the stark, vector-based shout encouraged by Flash sites.
design  inspiration  flash 
may 2008 by gordonbrander
Sula
Colorful textured design + minimalism = great for this bath and body company.
design  print  inspiration 
april 2008 by gordonbrander
Title sequences from Saul Bass, the master of film title design
The man that singlehandedly invented the art of the opening credit sequence.
art  design  inspiration  film 
march 2008 by gordonbrander
Cock. Bull. Story.
A collection of idioms reduced to three basic nouns. Thoughtfully designed by Nikki Farquharson.
design  writing  print  typography  inspiration  book 
february 2008 by gordonbrander
Dewey Donation System
Brilliant washed out 1950's feel. Atypical of web design.
web  design  inspiration 
february 2008 by gordonbrander
Staying Motivated
Keven Cornell shares exceptional tips on keeping the creative spirit alive.
advice  productivity  design  work  inspiration  gtd 
august 2007 by gordonbrander
Hometown Baghdad
A vlog documentary web series by a few Iraqi 20-somethings in the midst of trying to live in Baghdad.
documentary  newmedia  resource  inspiration  vlog  war  iraq  blog  journalism  citizenjournalism  film 
may 2007 by gordonbrander
pixelghetto
Nice skater-y design in black.
design  inspiration  web  css  html 
march 2007 by gordonbrander
AIGA
The Professional Association for Design. A web portal site that doesn't make me cringe. Designed by Jason Santa Maria.
design  site  portal  css  web  inspiration 
march 2007 by gordonbrander
Nidahas musings on design, web standards and free software from a third world geek.
Really classic, detailed eastern aestetic. Actually, I've pretty much never seen a design like it. Using the best of the gradient look, plus the worn, intricate detailing of Sri Lanka, Prabhath Sirisena has made something unique. An interesting thing to n
css  design  inspiration  blog 
september 2006 by gordonbrander
Practicalist
Simplicity of design, and purposeful concept.
web  design  inspiration  css  blog  minimalism 
august 2006 by gordonbrander
Rob Weychert
Newspaper-style blog design. Very Classy. Very Original
design  css  html  blog  inspiration  web  news  organization 
august 2006 by gordonbrander
Tennessee Summer Vacation
The heck with vertical columns, let's go horizontal!
web  design  css  color  state  inspiration 
august 2006 by gordonbrander

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