Category: inspiration

Holy Cow

Watch this video on YouTube

Ninja Turtle

Pretty Forms

If you haven’t seen the signup form on Jeremy Keith’s Huffduffer, go there now. I’ll wait. Pretty, isn’t it? Not only does it look good, but evidence suggests that it is more effective than traditional box-filled forms. Maybe it’s time to start thinking about other ways to present form fields. Not just text fields, but [...]

Victorian Infographics

We’re always on the lookout for new ways to display information. Paul at BibliOdyssey has put together great examples of some old ways gathered from the David Rumsey Map Collection. Fantastic.

International Year of Astronomy

Check out these posters that Simon Page made for the International Year of Astronomy. They’re retro and geometric, and so—almost by definition— I think they’re awesome. They’re also for sale. Creative Review had their favorites: And thumbnails of all 10:

An Event Apart 2009

I found this year’s An Event Apart inspirational and informative. There were some presentations that weren’t as strong, but overall I think it was a great experience. Twitter was heavily represented, as was reflected in two websites built by attendees during the conference. A Feed Apart aggregated all of the Twitter posts marked with #aea09 [...]

I like space

From Boston.com’s The Big Picture.

And the Pursuit of Happiness

And the Pursuit of Happiness is a wonderfully playful blog on the New York Times site. It combines beautiful illustrations with quirky insight to discuss the many facets of American Democracy. From wondering whether Abraham Lincoln would enjoy Frida Kahlo to the subtle change in the Constitution from “the pursuit of property” to “the pursuit [...]

CSS iPhone

There are tons of websites out there for inspirational CSS design. With the popularity of the iPhone and other mobile devices, it’s nice to see a new CSS gallery site focused on mobile browsers. CSS iPhone will be a great asset as our office moves toward supporting mobile browsers with our websites.

The Seed

The Seed from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo. This video is stunning in it’s simple beauty, and even though it looks simple, it probably took many many hours to put together. Also, jellyfish!!