A logo is often a great starting point when finding direction for full page designs.
This post is a roundup of sites highlighted some of the best and brightest identities and logos in the world.
Source URL: http://buildinternet.com/2009/03/10-galleries-of-creative-logos/
Tags: reblog
We all need a little inspiration every once in a while, and as we all know, typography is a huge part of design. Designers have been forever experimenting with type, and what a better way to share than good ‘ol Flickr. I’ve made a list of some of the best Typography Flickr groups to feed your creative appetite.
Source URL: http://www.bittbox.com/fonts/17-stimulating-flickr-groups-to-get-you-typographically-inspired/
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As a freelance logo and identity designer, I am always looking for inspiration. While I think every logo project should have extensive research put into it, logo design galleries can give you a quick jump start on a project. Plus, these websites are a great resource for business owners looking for a talented freelance logo designer.
Source URL: http://designedbyanderson.com/blog/2008/12/17/7-logo-design-galleries-you-should-bookmark/
Most Inspired and other galleries are great way to start off the design process to get a general direction for your new project, but sometimes all you need is a little inspiration. Perhaps you’re wondering how to style the comments for you new project, or your’re wondering what you should do with the footer. Recently we’ve seen a new type of design gallery pop up, ones that focus on design patterns.
In software engineering, a design pattern is a general reusable solution, and people have found this reusable approach applies well to web design too. Most websites share common elements, from headers and footer, to comments and calendars, these elements can be very similar.
Below you’ll find a list of pattern collection websites to provide just that little bit of inspiration you need.
PatternTap is a fairly new site, from Matthew Smith at Squared Eye. PatternTap allows you to create and a share sets of the best in web interface design.
Tags: collection, pattern, ui
Call it Web2.0 if you must, but the techniques and mind set of building simple, building fast has lead to a plethora of web applications. Following close behind was a collection of directories and showcases for these cool web apps.
Feedmyapp is a showcase where you can submit your, or someone else’s, web 2.0 app. In doing so you “feed your app”, thus receiving many many visitors from here and helping us update the directory!
We’ve previously listed websites that allow you rate websites, letting you decide which ones are hot or not.
The Internet is a very democratic place and there are many other rating sites, allowing you rate just about anything.
After the jump you’ll find a list of some the best…
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Design galleries showcase well designed websites, which doesn’t mean that they need to be well designed themselves right? Well of course they should, but with the explosion of design galleries there are some pretty terrible looking ones.
I decided to find the best looking design galleries. Remember, this doesn’t mean they are the best design gallery … they may not update often enough, or have enough features to make them useful, but they sure do look good.
Vandelay Designs recently posted a ranking of the top 80 CSS galleries which I used as my source list.
Without further ado here is my list of the 12 best looking design galleries…
http://www.thebestdesigns.com/
http://www.unmatchedstyle.com/
http://www.thehorizontalway.com/
I’m sure you all disagree, so let me hear it …
Tags: Galleries
Music Festivals, Concert Tours Website Designs
Some huge summer concert venues, totaling crowds in the thousands, if not millions all combined…
You would think they would have brilliant websites. I’ve found some of the best websites for 2008 summer music festivals I could find. The criteria was the concerts were music festivals and not just a single recording artists concert tour website, those may make another post.
Some of the websites have a more complete and interactive feature set than others, anyways here’s the current list, if you have any recommendations of hot summer music concert event websites, add the link in the comments section so we can all have a look at it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lollapalooza
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzfest
Hey maybe there’s something happening this summer after all count me in on the MusicBuildsTour, it’s one hot ticket!
Following on from our previous post of Inspiring CMS Showoffs I thought I’d compile a list of Web Development Framework showcases.
There are a lot of web development frameworks, but the most established ones you can count on the fingers of one hand, maybe two.
www.rubyonrails.org
Language: Ruby
Ruby on Rails is the hugely popular framework from 37signals, that powers there many web applications, and made open source.
Also: http://www.rubyonrails.org/applications
www.cakephp.org
Language: PHP
CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications.
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/camping/
Language: Ruby
Camping is a microframework for web development, by whytheluckystuff, is insanely small and incredibly powerful.
www.symfony-project.org
Language: PHP
Symfony is a full-stack framework, a library of cohesive classes written in PHP5. It provides an architecture, components and tools for developers to build complex web applications faster.
Although I couldn’t find a dedicated showcase, the weekly blog update usually contains a few newly launched Symphony powered sites.
codeigniter.com
Language: PHP
CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications.
www.pradosoft.com
Language: PHP
PRADO is a component-based and event-driven programming framework for developing Web applications in PHP 5.
www.djangoproject.com
Language: Python
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
There are a number of other frameworks (Fusebox, Spring, Turbo Gears to name a few) that I would have liked to include in the list but I was unable to find showcases for them. If you know of some, please let me know and I’ll update the list.
Tags: framework, showcases, Web Development
Content Management Systems have become common place for website development, custom development saved for the largest and most unique websites.
Before deciding which CMS is best for your next project it is a good idea to see how others have customized the offering to their needs, as a way to evaluate how flexible the software is. Will it stifle your creativity or will it allow you to incorporate your best design and be able to provide a host of other features that would not be possible otherwise.
The popular CMSs all have strong community offerings including forums where you are encouraged to show off your latest creations, a great place to start when evaluating the software. Browse the list below to find some inspiration, some of them have RSS feeds that you can subscribe to, to stay inspired.
Which is your favorite CMS? Is it the one that gets out of your way and lets you design the website you want, or are certain functionalities more important? In the best of both worlds, you design your layout as you normally would, and then serve it up with all the added extra goodies a CMS can offer.
My favorite to date is ExpressionEngine purely on the enthusiasm and etiquette of the community there. I am just adding some of these others to my bloglines feeds, for future reference and design inspiration. There are some amazing sites going unnoticed, I’m sure of it.
Good luck to you in your inspiration hunting and learning/doing with your CMS of choice.
