SimpleBits
Handcrafted pixels & text from Salem, Massachusetts.
Posts tagged design
“This car is an exact replica…of a car.” 2011 Mediocrity
(Source: youtube.com)
“In the same way that a movie isn’t good because it’s in color, a movie isn’t good because it’s in 3-D.”
The new Virb
Congratulations to the Virb team for relaunching as a way of building and hosting simple websites. The design and copy is beautifully executed as always.
“Web design is not merely building. It’s not just designing. It’s not only the rest of the myriad disciplines and titles we all align ourselves with, but the culmination of all these things.”
— Jason Santa Maria, A Real Web Design Application
“I found myself resorting to the same button styles, shading techniques, etc… and having to force myself to go back and change things up. I figured that if these guys can spend a year making a single piano, I could probably spend an extra couple hours here and there on refining these details.”
— Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain on his redesign of Steinway & Sons
Q & A with Jason Munn of the Small Stakes
Grain Edit interviews the prolific music poster designer. Have long been a fan, and now purchasing the book, which collects over 150 of Munn’s poster designs for various indie bands.
ALT/1977: We Are Not Time Travelers
Re-imagining four common products from 2010 as if they were designed in 1977: an mp3 player, a laptop, a mobile phone and a handheld video game system.
The best of SoftFacade
Some of SoftFacade’s best icon work as of late. Simply amazing stuff coming from these guys out of Russia. See also their Dribbble shots, which are routinely the most popular.
CSS3 For Web Designers paperback + ebook A Book Apart
Handcrafted CSS book + DVD New Riders
Bulletproof Web Design second edition New Riders
Web Standards Solutions special edition Friends of Ed
Dribbble What are you working on? 
Outbrain logo design + HTML/CSS 
Wikirank logo + UI design 