Color

Themes In My Gmails!

Gmail has themes! Woo! Now its only a matter of time before they let us crazy designers take a wack at it!

So I’m sitting here on my couch, laptop, tv and ipods connected piping info my way. You could say that i’m downright obsessed with information graphics Here’s a roundup of some tasty info graphics covering the election results!

Just For Kicks: Color Inspiration

As designers we are continually looking for inspiration to keep our design skills sharp. We can find inspiration in the strangest places. What better place to look for color inspiration than our own shoes? Think about it - if we pride ourselves on our ability to spot good design then this would carry out into our choice of footwear I hope you enjoy this post. Thanks to everyone who participated!

Best Print Designs

My BOYM* Party design is featured in The Design Cubicles “29 Best Print Designs“. Go check it out!

bring your own meat

Creative Design Firm Names

Creative Design Firm Names
Branding and identity design is quite possibly the most difficult aspect of graphic design. Afterall, we are our own most difficult client. I found some creative names of Freelancer/design firms that were memorable and made me smile.

Bananas And Coffee Update!

I finally got around to processing my August 2008 banana and coffee data. This time I decided to play with fusion charts - a flash & xml based chart thing-a-ma-bob. Pretty sweet and easy to edit. Little flash widgets like this are awesome because you can just edit the xml file without even touching the flash (swf) file. This means no republishing! Also - I could see this being used with a CMS to dynamically change the values in the xml file.