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Reblog: 10 Galleries of Creative Logos

Posted in GalleriesMar 14, 09 | 09:12 am

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/

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Reblog: 17 Stimulating Flickr Groups to get You Typographically Inspired

Posted in GalleriesJan 05, 09 | 02:47 pm

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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Reblog: 7 Logo Design Galleries You Should Bookmark

Posted in GalleriesJan 04, 09 | 12:26 pm

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/

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5 Design Pattern Collections (3)

Posted in Galleries, ResourcesNov 20, 08 | 12:17 pm

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

PatternTap

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.

patterntap.com

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8 Web Application Showcases (8)

Posted in GalleriesOct 20, 08 | 03:34 pm

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

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!

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Rating Sites (0)

Posted in GalleriesSep 21, 08 | 09:27 pm

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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12 Best Looking Design Galleries (35)

Posted in GalleriesJul 15, 08 | 10:01 am

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…

12. Plastic Pilots

http://www.plasticpilots.com/

plasticpilots.com

11. CSS Bloom

http://www.cssbloom.com/

cssbloom.com

10. CSS Tux

http://www.csstux.com/

csstux.com

9. Design Flavr

http://www.designflavr.com/

designflavr.com

8. The Best Designs

http://www.thebestdesigns.com/

thebestdesigns.com

7. Unmatched Style

http://www.unmatchedstyle.com/

unmatchedstyle.com

6. Stylegala

http://www.stylegala.com/

stylegala.com

5. W3C Sites

http://www.w3csites.com/

w3csites.com

4. Design Snack

http://www.designsnack.com/

designsnack.com

3. CSS Artillery

http://www.cssartillery.com/

cssartillery.com

2. Styleboost

http://styleboost.com/

styleboost.com

1. The Horizontal Way

http://www.thehorizontalway.com/

thehorizontalway.com

I’m sure you all disagree, so let me hear it …

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2008 Summer Music Festival Websites (13)

Posted in Design Styles, Galleries, WebsitesJun 01, 08 | 10:00 am

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.


bonnaroo_com

Bonnaroo.com


lollapalooza_com

Lollapalooza.com

  • What: Lollapalooza 2008
  • Where: Grant Park - Chicago, Illinois
  • When: August 1-3, 2008
  • Lollapalooza Tickets


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lollapalooza


ozzfest_com

Ozzfest.com


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzfest


ACLfestival_com

ACLfestival.com


bumbershoot_org

Bumbershoot.org

  • What: Seattle Music and Arts Festival
  • Where: Seattle, Washington
  • When: August 30 - September 1, 2008
  • Bumbershoot Tickets


handyblues_org

Handyblues.org

  • What: Handy Blues and Barbecue Festival
  • Where: Henderson, Kentucky
  • When: June 7-14, 2008


musikfest_org

Musikfest.org

  • What: Musikfest 25th Anniversary
  • Where: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
  • When: August 1-10, 2008
  • Musikfest Tickets


rothburyFestival_com

RothburyFestival.com


hardRockCalling-co-uk

HardRockCalling.co.uk

  • What: Hard Rock Calling Music Festival
  • Where: Hyde Park - London, England
  • When: June 28-29, 2008


summerfest_com

Summerfest.com

  • What: Milwaukee Summerfest - The World’s Largest Music Festival
  • Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • When: June 26 - July 6, 2008
  • Summerfest Tickets


milehighmusicfest

MileHighMusicFestival.com

More American Pop Music Tours

TrueColorsTour.com

Tour.AmericanIdol.com

MusicBuildsTour.com

Hey maybe there’s something happening this summer after all count me in on the MusicBuildsTour, it’s one hot ticket!

Web Development Framework Showcases (9)

Posted in GalleriesApr 21, 08 | 10:50 am

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.

Ruby On Rails

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.


Working With Rails

Also: http://www.rubyonrails.org/applications


CakePHP

www.cakephp.org
Language: PHP

CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications.

CakePHP


Camping

http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/camping/
Language: Ruby

Camping is a microframework for web development, by whytheluckystuff, is insanely small and incredibly powerful.

Camping


Symphony

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

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.

Code Igniter


Prado

www.pradosoft.com
Language: PHP

PRADO is a component-based and event-driven programming framework for developing Web applications in PHP 5.

Prado


Django

www.djangoproject.com
Language: Python

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Django sites


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.

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14 Inspiring CMS Showoffs (38)

Posted in GalleriesApr 11, 08 | 12:48 pm

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.

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