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Best of 2010

22 Dec 10

Best of 2010

Few more days to go which marks the end of the brilliant year of 2010. It’s been an exciting year for the world of Web Design and the social web, a lot of new ideas, great designs, resources and tutorials that we all can collect and learn. There are a lot of “best of” roundups from various blogs and here I put up all together in a post for easy reference.

I categorize the best of roundups into 8 big categories which consist of best free fonts, best jQuery plugins, best tutorials and more. Well continue reading to check them out!

Galleries With Specific Genre

22 Nov 10

. Inspiration, Web Design

Galleries With Specific Genre

Visiting galleries definitely are one of the ways to look for design inspirations. There are tonnes of galleries out there showcasing the best in designs, and some of them are focusing on specific genre or field of area, for example app designs, minimalist designs, typography and more. This is quite handy because I can focus on specific genre in straight forward manner.

Without further elaborating, below are some galleries with specific genre. Continue reading to proceed!

Designers & Developers’ Front End Playground

15 Nov 10

. Inspiration, Web Design

Designers & Developers' Front End Playground

Playground is always the best place to have fun and explore new things. Kids loves to play with sand, bricks and toys. But this doesn’t mean that human stop playing when grown up. We are still playing but with different sets of tools and play zone. Web Designers and Developers too, love to play and experiment. Here in this post, I present you 8 designers and developers’ front end playground.

Besides doing full time job or client’s assignments, these adventurous designers and developers are not forgetting the desire of trying something new with latest web technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. Some demonstrations are really cool and able to learn from them on what’s the possibilities in web design scene. Please check out their playgrounds after the break!

Trend: Web Design with visible grid lines

03 Nov 10

. Inspiration, Web Design

Trend: Web Design with visible grid lines

In the modern Web Design, the implementation of a grid system is getting popular and become a common practice, thanks to the 960.gs and design pioneers like Khoi Vinh. With grid system, designers are able to lay out the structures in a more refined way. However, these grid guidelines are normally invisible on the design output. But I found that there are some websites that has visible grid lines as part of the design.

Well I think this definitely is a small trend in the current Web Design. By putting grid lines on the design, it somehow shows the professionalism of the designers on how he or she structures and align the design, while it also looks cool and geeky as well. Some grid lines are clear and some are subtle. Here I present you 17 websites that has visible grid lines. Please check it out.

Designing newsletter – essential resources

16 Sep 10

. Inspiration, Resources

Designing newsletter - essential resources

When becoming a web designer, sometimes we will need to design newsletter for clients or ourselves to promote and inform customers and subscribers about the latest news and get in touch with them. When designing and coding newsletter, there are quite a few things that we need to take a look to in order to create a perfect and good looking newsletter.

One remarkable characteristics of newsletter design is that it is still only supported by using HTML Tables because many email clients still not as advanced as modern browsers nowadays. Besides, there are also unsupported CSS properties too. Below, I gathered few article links that teach essential tips and tricks when designing newsletter and would like to share with you all.

TokyoGenso: Illustrations of imaginative ruined Tokyo

25 Aug 10

. Art & Design, Inspiration, Japan

TokyoGenso: Illustrations of imaginative ruined Tokyo

TokyoGenso is a series of amazing illustrations based on real locations in Tokyo but in ruined condition. It looks like the places has been abandoned for many years and become some sort of a dead city after an apocalyptic event. The artist of this series actually paint the illustration on an actual photo, thus the creation of this highly detailed, surrealistic illustrations.

TokyoGenso provides a very good imagination on how Tokyo will look like when abandoned. Well I think in real life this will not actually happen but it will not stop the illustrator’s imagination. Below are some of his works, and to see more please check out his deviantART gallery, Pixiv gallery (in Japanese and requires log in) or his Ameba blog.

Interesting Time-lapse/Stop Motion videos of Japan

06 Aug 10

. Inspiration, Japan

Interesting Time-lapse/Stop Motion videos of Japan

Japan definitely one destination that everyone loves to visit. Besides sight-seeing and taking memorable pictures, tourists are also getting more creative with the pictures taken by digital cameras or DSLRs and turning them into movie! The moving images normally constructed in two ways: Time-lapse and Stop Motion.

Because of using digital device, we can snap as many photos as we want (if the memory space is no issue). The characteristics of these kind of movies is that the animation is not very smooth, but it is interesting to watch: For stop motion, is to see how the creator stacks the photos, while time-lapse video, is to see the morphing movement. Below are the videos. Please enjoy!

Inspiration: 16 websites in Pink

04 Jul 10

. Inspiration, Web Design

Inspiration: 16 websites in Pink

When talking about pink, we will have certain perception towards this lovely color, for example pink is a feminism color, a general color that represents female, spring season (cherry blossom!), breast cancer awareness etc. I really like pink, because I think women in pink are really cute! And there are quite a number of websites that uses pink too.

Pink has many shades and tints, ranging from shocking pink to cherry blossom pink. Different pink gives different feeling. Some of the websites shown below use pink as overall theme, while others using pink as a contrast color from dark color. Well, below are the 16 great example of websites in pink color!

Amazing Illustrations from Zain7, a Japanese Illustrator

13 May 10

. Art & Design, Inspiration, Japan

Amazing Illustrations from Zain7, a Japanese Illustrator

When I look at Zain7 (ざいん) artworks, my eyes went big. Her illustrations are very rich in color and vivid, with a bit mix of texture and 3D space, which making her illustration really unique. I really like the illustrations of urban environment and structure with a girl character in it. Below are some of her works and check out the links posted below for more artworks!

Japan web gallery – 2010 edition

02 May 10

. Inspiration, Japan, Web Design

Japan web gallery - 2010 edition

Previously I wrote two posts introducing the web galleries from Japan that is worth visiting. And now in year 2010, I found more galleries and recompile all of them and make it into a year 2010 edition. These galleries showcased the best of XHTML/CSS and Flash web designs from Japan and you should really check them out.