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Pretty Forms

Bob Holt — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:18:18 +0000

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 dropdowns, checkboxes, and radio buttons as well.

Infographic Coins

Bob Holt — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:05:45 +0000

Petitinvention has some designs for infographic coins (found via beginbeing). I would be very happy if this were the currency of the future:

Victorian Infographics

Bob Holt — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:24:52 +0000

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

Bob Holt — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:14:56 +0000

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:

Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

malakhi — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:18:20 +0000

BU Homepage:

Bemidji Homepage:

Corn Wagon Thunder

malakhi — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:55:21 +0000

A friend of mine started making cocktail napkins. I went to her open house this weekend and bought some, they’re really nice. She plans on opening an Etsy store to sell them soon.

Her company’s name is Corn Wagon Thunder. She’s from the south, so I think that’s OK.

Update: Corn Wagon Thunder is now on Etsy!

27bslash6

malakhi — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:51:22 +0000

I like this, and also it is funny.