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Category Archives: Web Aesthetics

Typing vs. Typography

Sometimes spending an extra half hour to an hour to get minute details right is the difference between a design studio and a really good design studio with experienced visual designers.
Look at a bunch of websites… look closely at the space to the sides of the images. Does the content goes too close to a [...]

And Then There Was Salsa

To experience 37 of the coolest seconds on the web, check out this video “And Then There Was Salsa” by Frito Lay Dips. You must click over to their site, we couldn’t reproduce it within our blog.
Hats off and much genuflecting to the creators. This makes me want to dance, get chips, and speak Spanish.

Best Book Video Promo of the Year

It’s witty, enticing, and makes me smile. Exactly what one would want from a book video promo:

It is, obviously, the Book video for Julia Quinn’s upcoming book Ten Things I Love About You, created by Brady Hall, Harper Collins’s go-to guy for video. And yes, I know I called Julia’s last video (also Brady’s work) [...]

Brilliantly Art Directed Fantastic Video

Someone was doing some seriously creative thinking.

Bravo OK Go! Wired has a great article on how this Rube Goldberg machine was built, but feat of engineering or not, it’s beautiful to watch.

The New Era of the Logo

The logo has changed. It’s happier. Less corporate. More Twitter-ish. Very Facebook-y. Kind of Flickr-like.
The New York Times is calling these logos “Warmer” and “Fuzzier,” which is an editorially cute way of saying “More Accessible,” which is exactly what it is… or more correctly, what it has evolved into.
With Web 2.0 (you know what it [...]

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