Bring on the Trumpets…
Cadbury is launching sweets from Australian Natural Confectionery Company in the UK with a television and online advertising campaign in which sweets come to life to chat about their naturalness.
The Contemplative Sweets campaign builds on Australia’s heritage of lighthearted playfulness by developing a “kidult” tone of voice, which is at once charming and edgy. Read more
13 Things worth knowing about Super Mario
On September 13th Mario will be 25 years old. Put a little extra happiness in your day with a dose of Mario!
First a landlord, then a carpenter, then a plumber, and now a video game hero! Wait …a landlord? How did that happen? Read more
13 tips for better HTML emails
Friday is here and most emails will get sent today before the weekend. So I wanted to talk about designing and sending HTML newsletters. They can be a little tacky sometimes. The output of HTML in email apps is still much more limited than in web browsers Read more
17 Methods for Upping Your Current Web Design Skills
In this post we’re looking into 17 different ways a web designer can improve their skills at any time. They involve everything from learning new abilities, to changing focus Read more
Evernote: File Your Life
Functional and useful, Evernote goes beyond its architecture and is also interesting. It’s a true three-platform play: it works very well, and somewhat differently, on desktop computers, mobile phones, and over the Web. Read more
Color Stream: a Free iPhone App For Web Designers
Color Stream is a free iPhone App, created by Sahil Lavingia (@slavingia on Twitter) and released for Smashing Magazine. Color stream lets you create and store color palettes that are either created from scratch Read more
Lego Star Wars
Mike Stimpson is a programmer by day and a photographer by night. He has been doing a lot of photography with Lego , and has come up with some gems. Read more
Clients from Hell
I bet every designer or developer that have contact with clients or interact with them have had a day they wanted to kill a client. Ever heard of Clients from Hell? Sure you have. Read more
How Black is Black?
When is black not black? When its true black…
We should all know by now that RGB documents are meant for screens, and CMYK documents are meant for printing. Therefore, when you print a CMYK document and you need a really rich black it’s important to remember one little teeny tiny thing: 100% K isn’t the blackest black you can get. Read more
Tilt Shift Photography
Some beautiful examples…
Tilt-shift photography are of two different types of movements: rotation of the lens plane relative to the image plane, called tilt, and movement of the lens parallel to the image plane, called shift. Read more
