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There’s a very thin line between simple and clean and powerful and simple and clean and boring.
— David Carson in the Helvetica Documentary, via TheManInTheSea
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I wonder if we can do this to mosque :)
More images here.
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It is often the margin of time spent on the tiniest details that separate the good designers from the great ones.
From Designshack.
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View complete graphic here.
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Love the simplicity and retro feelings.
Please find detailed features on Pentax official website.
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Readability is whether an extended amount of text—such as an article, book, web page—is easy to read. Legibility is whether a small burst of text such as a sign or a headline is instantly recognizable.
Now I am enlightened. More about readibility and legibility here.
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You should never add something just because it looks good—aesthetics are never the end goal but rather a tool web designers may use to achieve a specific goal (and only when it actually helps them achieve that goal).
— Decoration – the Enemy of Good Web Design
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Oh and what about losing the uniqueness of iA’s design by giving our own design away? Think about it. Visual uniqueness is overrated. And if you use our template: We’re the original, you’re the copy. As long as you don’t act like us, pay for your copy and acknowledge that we’re the author I have [...]
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Cooper Black is a perfectly good font, but in my mind it is a fat, happy font associated with the logo for the ‘National Lampoon,’ the sleeve of the Beach Boys’ ‘Pet Sounds’ album and discount retailers up and down the U.S. I wouldn’t choose it as a font for St. Agnes Church even as [...]
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Dalam artikel terdahulu, saya singgung soal “detail”, yang bisa membedakan antara desainer yang baik dan desainer yang buruk. Salah satunya adalah soal alignment.
Banyak desainer web kerap melupakan persoalan alignment. Semua harus rata, itu aturan utamanya. Tidak peduli apakah desain yang Anda buat bercorak rapi-minimalis atau model grunge yang kompleks, pastikan setiap elemen berada pada [...]
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While MySpace focused on maintaining its community, the Facebook management team focused on recruiting the most talented engineers and executives to grow its freakish sleeping giant. Facebook recruited a revolving door of highly talented Google alumni, the best undergrads available, and top experts within their respective fields.
— Trizzle.com
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The designers of these blogs knew what was important and made sure that the website focused on those pieces, and for that – we appreciate them.
— Spyre Studios
Thank you Mike!
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Steampunk, at its core, is a design style which utilizes mechanical parts, metal and historical dress directly inspired by the machines and workers of the industrial revolution. It presents a vision, in which life is characterized by modernization and dreams of a better future through the advancement of steam powered technology.
Via Anidea.
Now I know :)
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Banyak yang bilang, desain minimalis itu mudah. Ambil latar belakang putih, pilih font Helvetica, Arial, atau Georgia, dan gunakan grid. Selesai. Betulkah demikian?
Saya tidak mengatakan bahwa desain minimalis itu sulit. Masalah sulit atau mudah tentu tidak relevan dalam desain. Tingkat kesulitan sebuah desain tidak serta-merta menentukan kualitas desain tersebut.
Barisan kata-kata atau kode yang keluar dari [...]
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Desain web bukan cuma soal memilih warna, atau mengatur huruf. Bukan pula soal menggunakan grafis dan motif yang unik. Itu kosmetik.
Desain, utamanya komunikasi visual, adalah soal bagaimana menyajikan informasi yang ramah pengguna dan tepat sasaran. Jika situs Anda adalah sebuah situs berita, pastikan teks yang disajikan mudah dibaca. Anda juga harus merancang arus isi (content [...]
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How does a team design for a quarter billion people? Four hypothesis: be there from start to finish, share early & often, get your hands dirty, don’t fall in love.
—Functioning Form
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Akhir-akhir ini saya sedang senang bereksperimen dengan tipografi. Menjamurnya situs dan blog yang mengupas soal tipografi sedikit banyak telah memicu dan menginspirasi saya, dan pastinya semua desainer untuk menghasilkan desain dengan nuansa tipografi yang ciamik.
Yang jadi persoalan, kebanyakan typeface bagus itu harganya mahal banget. Akhirnya ujung-ujungnya kita kembali kepada huruf-huruf “klasik” dan tentu saja, “gratis”.
Bukan [...]
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Have a purpose. Give your designs meaning and thought. Don’t be afraid to stand out. Take risks. Just be sure you put good reasoning behind your design choices. It’s also important to be diverse. Explore a variety of styles and you will go really far.
—Larissa Meek
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Inilah sebabnya kenapa kalian tidak bisa mendesak saya untuk bekerja cepat-cepat :)
Work is work, and we must do what we must do. But when quality matters most, the old saw about “good or fast—choose one,” holds true. Pushing through to the finish line when you have nothing left inside you is great for marathon runners, [...]
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When designers get that pissed off about something it almost certainly means that thing is a good idea.
—Michael Arrington
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Stop selling yourself. Stop making all promises to clients that you aren’t 110% sure of. Only conduct your initial meetings, phonecalls, and proposal document work during business hours. Tell the client up front that with all projects there is a risk of delay, particularly if they don’t respond to your requests for information in a [...]
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Saya termasuk pengguna reguler Kateglo, sumber daring untuk pencarian kata dan istilah bahasa Indonesia. Namun, rasa hati agak kurang sreg karena tampilan Kateglo, bagi saya, kurang sedap dipandang mata.
Karena kecintaan pada Kateglo dan hobi desain, saya coba usulkan ke rekan-rekan dari Bahtera, selaku pengelola Kateglo, beberapa alternatif desain. Saya berusaha mempertahankan aksen minimalis pada desain [...]
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So very true:
Change in design should be prompted by necessity, reason, and logic. Good design is lasting design, not “something different.”
—Joey Pfeifer
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“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” —Steve Jobs (via North Temple)
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Thank you for CSSMania, a well-respected design showcase for featuring this humble design of mine into your site. A great honour.
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Jacek Utko is an extraordinary Polish newspaper designer whose redesigns for papers in Eastern Europe not only win awards, but increase circulation by up to 100%. Can good design save the newspaper? It just might.
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Satu lagi situs etalase galeri desain. Bedanya, situs ini berfokus pada penggunaan tipografi suatu website. Setiap situs yang tampil dicantumkan font yang digunakan.
Sebenarnya ada satu lagi situs sejenis yang lebih bagus, Typesites. Meski frekuensi update-nya kecil, situs ini membongkar lebih dalam suatu desain dari sisi tipografi.
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Kabar mengejutkan tapi amat membahagiakan.
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Four newspapers from Europe and one from Mexico named as “World’s Best-Designed Newspapers™.” Via Subtraction.
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Logotype design for kreat.us, an Indonesia-based designhouse.
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Gubrak! What do you think?
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Well, umm, just a simple (yet elegant ;) ) design. Not quite sure about this one. Worth to try, though.
This is not my last submission I hope. More to come. Tic toc tic toc…
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Two other concepts left ;)
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Hmm, capek juga :D
More to come. Stay tuned.
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365 days of illustrated characters (dudes). Pure awesomeness. Via DFCKR.
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This is my second submission to the contest. I just want to experiment with typography and colours (again).
I also want to take WP to another level. It’s a hybrid actually: magazine looks, with a tumblr-like category-styling posts, which represent a personal blog.
So, here it is. I still have about three of four design concepts [...]
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The poster was inspired by Barack Obama’s victory.
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This is my first submission to the contest.
A colorful design inspired by rainbow I saw the other day. Umm, not a satisfying result though, because I am simply not good at colours.
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A non-ordinary WordPress theme by Robert Ellis from Futurosity.com.
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The most popular linkblog on the blogosphere, Kottke.org, has redesigned his blog.
The simplicity keep retained. Just love it, especially that frame ;)
Click to read about the redesign process.
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OH my. Another great contest with a greater amount of prize money.
And guess what? It is held by our Indonesian designer fellow, a well-respected webdesigner, the creator of a legendary WordPress theme Arthemia and Linoluna: Michael Jubel Hutagalung. Yes, he’s the owner of ColorlabsProject.
More details about the contest, please refer to this page.
As for [...]
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This is the site for the appreciation and categorization of excellence in book cover design.
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The guys at FreebiesDock.com released a nice WP Theme called FREEmium.
The feature and design, to my opinion, worth a “premium” level.
But you know what? It’s free!
Go download it here.
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Izinkan saya berucap rasa syukur. Setelah berpartisipasi dalam kontes Woothemes, ternyata banyak ada beberapa tawaran proyek desain, hampir seluruhnya dari luar negeri.
Hal ini sesungguhnya sama sekali tidak saya duga. Keikutsertaan saya di kontes itu juga sebenarnya sekadar iseng. Tapi, saya senang dan bersyukur. Akhirnya hobi saya sejak lama ada “buahnya” juga.
Beberapa konsep desain saya juga [...]
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Nice icons and wallpapers for the discerning individual, collected and curated.
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Alternatif logo Obama 08 yang tidak terpilih.
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The Grid System is an ever-growing resource where graphic designers can learn about grid systems, the golden ratio and baseline grids. Nice grid design as well.
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Some are disgusting but some are really excellent tricks.
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Pitra Media Ide mengubah desainnya, meski dengan skema warna yang senada dengan desain sebelumnya. Blogger yang baru-baru ini memenangkan penghargaan The BOBs untuk kategori Best Weblog/Language berbahasa Indonesia ini menggunakan theme Arthemia yang sudah dimodifikasi.
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The design process is essentially a process of subtraction, organisation and emphasis — too much information on a computer screen is overwhelming for readers, regardless of how well it’s been placed.
Leon Paternoster on why we should treat grid design with care.
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Ada yang baru dari layanan email Google, Gmail: pilihan theme. Tidak terlalu penting sih ya, keren aja bisa punya theme email kayak gini:
Untuk mengaktifkan fitur ini, klik saja tab “Setting” di halaman utama Gmail, lalu pilih tab “Theme”. Silakan pilih sesuai selera Anda.
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THIS is my second Wordpress theme release, after the sensational ;) Refreshed theme.
Hysteria is indeed an award winning Wordpress theme. It has been featured in some high profile CSS galleries: CSS Mania, Screenfluent, Most Inspired, and We Love Wp. Not to mention second level CSS showcases out there. The theme itself is a simple, clean, [...]
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Vote here. My answer is No ;)
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Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs.
Link.
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Here are his 8 rules for creative people to live by.
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In partnership with Andrews McMeel Publishing and dozens of newspapers across the country and around the world, Poynter is producing a collection of 75 front pages commemorating the election of Barack Obama.
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ISENG-iseng saya memerhatikan desain partai-partai politik peserta Pemilu 2009. Yang saya maksud desain bukan cuma soal tampilan visual, melainkan juga soal arsitektur informasi dan navigasi yang digunakan.
Dan sependek pengamatan saya, kelihatannya baru Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) dan Partai Bulan Bintang (PBB) yang peduli pada dua hal ini. Website mereka sudah berusaha mengikuti tren website [...]
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A collection of US online newspaper headlines on Obama’s “victory”.
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SETELAH deg-degan saban melihat kiriman desain baru ke kontes desain Wordpress theme di Woothemes, akhirnya waktu pengiriman karya ditutup per tanggal 31 Oktober. Saya sendiri ikut meramaikan kontes ini dengan mengirimkan empat desain. Dua desain awal, jujur saja saya bikin sebelum ada kontes ini :). Sedangkan dua desain terakhir saya buat khusus untuk kontes ini.
Yang [...]
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Design is about solving problems, not about software. Some people choose to do that with Photoshop, and some with HTML and CSS. Neither route is the correct way of doing it and it’s a mistake to presume it is.
— Mark Boulton
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IT is simply a ffffound wordpress theme. Great job. Will use it for my personal project.
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A nice way (yet very original) to see the big picture of a website’s lay out. The thing to take from Web Without Words is a different way to look at websites. You get a very honest picture of your sites layout, the actual wireframe of the site. Via Devlounge.
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AH, keren banget.
Link →
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Mine is:
Runes are letters belonging to an old Germanic alphabet. The runic alphabet, also called futhark, is attested in northern Europe, Britain, Scandinavia, and Iceland from about the 3rd century to the 16th or 17th century AD.
Get you name in Runes here.
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THANKS for you guys at Welovewp for featuring this blog. As mentioned at the footer, this theme is just a modification of living legend Derek Punsalan’s SEO October Special theme.
Well, thanks anyway.
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Kewl!
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Update: Junghoon Park, the developer of Minimalsites.com sent me an email. The site now have RSS feed: http://minimalsites.com/subscribe/
WOHOHO. I love this:
less is more. we believe in it
doing more with less. that’s our goal
Check out the showcase here. Too bad they don’t have any RSS feed for the gallery. Haregene?
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THANKS for Smashing Magazine for featuring my theme, Refreshed. One more credit to the great coder, Jauhari ;)
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Just awesome.