I am often reliant on the Lorem ipsum genertor site when creating some design concepts, and thanks to Swiss Miss and Chesley I’ve found a supercharged version – the Dummy text generator. This gives you all the features of the Lorem ipsum generator but adds some extra touches such as adjuusting the size of the preview window, choosing different text instead of the usual Lorem ipsum and being able to specify CSS styling. Give it a go!
Once again, the readers of Smashing Magazine have come up trumps with thier entries to the monthly wallpaper showcase.
Here’s my pick of the bunch, I’ve gone for “Burnt Orange” as my favourite. Click on one to see it in full size glory.
I like fonts, I’m not quite a typography nut, but I do appreciate the brilliant influence that typography can have on design. So this post is all about typography, looking at three quite different angles.
1 – Toast
As well as typography, I love toast, hot taost with melted butter, mmmmm, the breakfast of choice (as you may have noticed). So lets mix typography and toast say the people at handmadefont.com
Seen on: bblinks.blogspot.com, originally at www.handmadefont.com
2 – Cheese
Unlike toast, I hate cheese. And it hates me. I have a ‘cheese face’ to prove it. But, there is a connection with fonts and cheese, their names are often indistinguishable. @mogrify noticed this and decided to test the world on their cheese and font knowledge and built Cheese or Font.
Seen on: www.swiss-miss.com and originally at: cheeseorfont.mogrify.org
3 – Wallpaper
I wish I had more computer screens so I could show more desktop wallpaper. If I had 40 screens I could have a different typography wallpaper on each one courtesy of www.1stwebdesigner.com. It’s an excellent collection, and make me want to print them all out as postcards and stick them around my desk.
Found by: dainix on designbump.com, originally at: www.1stwebdesigner.com
On a massive billboard at Victoria Station there is an advertisement for the Financial Times. It features an excellent photograph of a huge crowd with a little figure in the corner speaking to them with the title “Who does the man everyone listens to, listen to?”
Apparently the answer is the Financial Times. Either way, it’s a great photo and intelligent advertising aimed perfectly at its audience.
Found on animalnewyork.com and reclamewereld.blog.nl
You can’t beat some good, timeless design. I doubt this Helvetica wallpaper will ever truely look dated, and like the others listed on Fuel your creative’s “20 retro wallpapers to spark your creativity” it’s a case of timeless design rather than retro, as I don’t believe any of these designs have gone out of fashion.
Smashing Magazine’s wallpaper of the month competition has come up with another fine selection of images for August, here are my favourites:
I’ve gone for the first one, it reminds me of the Pearl and Dean adverts you sometimes see at the cinema.
You can find them all in various sizes on the Smashing Magazine website.
I like this idea of wrapping paper and have done something similar before myself, but not with quite the same thought and style as Matt Dent.
Easy to make your own if you’ve got a big enough printer, but good to support a designer selling a great idea.
Found at Noisy Decent Graphics: My Bright Idea.
Smashing Magazine have their usual monthly wallpaper showcase, and this month there’s 60 to choose from, with some really strong entries.
This month I’ve picked the “creative spark” design by Vinod Batus from India. “The entire concept of this art came out when i was playing around with various photoshop brushes. The effect came in so beautifully that i instantly named it Creative Spark.”. Many thanks Vinod andof course to Smashing Magazine! Maybe one day I’ll submit my own entry…
Smashing magazine have got in early this month with their desktop wallpaper competition.
I’ve gone for this one (bit festive but I like it), which one will you choose?
The latest site I’ve been working on is for the British Heart Foundation to promote their campaign for a new government strategy for heart and circulatory disease.
The site is flash based and features a crowd of origami people campaigning for BHF, and by signing the petition another person is created on screen who joins the campaign.
The campaign and petition also features in their shops and will be delivered personally to Number 10. Visit the site - www.newheartplan.org.uk - sign the petition and add your origami person to the campaign.
