Posted 11 November 2007, by Aaron
It is my duty to make a quick mention for a new WordPress showcase site that was launched last week. LoopPress is the brainchild of Jim Keiffer and has been launched to showcase beautiful WordPress designs.
From LoopPress:
If you’re like me, you love Wordpress and want to know how other developers and designers are using it, [...]
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Posted 12 August 2007, by Aaron
Back to the basics of design
Are you looking for inspiration for your latest design project? Well, look no further: Stuart Brown from Modern Life talks about the basics of design, and how they form the foundation of inspiration. I particularly liked Stuarts take on simplicity:
“Effective design is never gimmicky. If you wish to design something [...]
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Posted 31 May 2007, by Aaron
Every designers’ dirty little secret is that they copy other designers’ work. They see work they like, and they imitate it. Rather cheekily, they call this inspiration.
This scourge of the design world has reached such epidemic proportions that there is said to be, “no such thing as an original idea.”
Don’t worry, I intentionally write to [...]
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Posted 4 May 2007, by Aaron
Anyone who has a son or daughter or niece or nephew, probably has a fridge covered with very, erm, imaginative drawings. I wonder what the result would be if those imaginations were combined with the skills of a talented artist?
Dave Devrie strives to answer that question on his website, The Monster Engine. However, there is [...]
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Posted 27 March 2007, by Aaron
I’ve been working in London for a couple of days this week, and this city is an amazing place to be. I have been to many of the big European cities and without a doubt, London has an absolutely unique energy to it not seen in other cities.
Just walking through the streets of London and [...]
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Posted 25 March 2007, by Aaron
Every minute of every day, my brain is chugging away thinking of things. Usually I’m thinking of things that are irrelevant to the task I’m actually performing. Most of the time, in fact, my thoughts are centered around things I need to be doing in the future, like the interview I’m having tomorrow, or the [...]
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