YogaFox Studios
Project Details: The YogaFox website was redesigned to showcase the full breadth of yoga services that the company offers. Keeping a similar layout as the previous design, some more interactive…
Uncle Tais Hunan Yuan
About Uncle Tai's: Uncle Tai's Hunan Yuan is a Chinese restaurant located in Boca Raton, FL. With over 30 years of experience, the Tai family serves high quality Chinese cuisine…
How I Roll
Project Details: Through educational how-to videos and blog posts, site founder Jacob Sharff shares his experience of living life in a wheelchair. The How I Roll website is an informative…
Font Discovery Services for Designers
As web and graphic designers, fonts play an increasingly bigger role in our work. Sometimes, a client gives us a logo that’s really just a 200 pixel wide jpeg image rather than a true vector based logo. The task of figuring out what font is used in that logo used to be tricky, if not impossible.
Thankfully, the surge of web based design tools benefits this situation, and there are a few font discovery services available online that can save hours of work looking for a specific font.
First, let’s talk about how these sites work. Usually a file of with your font is uploaded (or linked via a url) to the site, then scanned to find glyphs that match a font. This only works with letters with spacing, so sometimes a bit of Photoshop work needs to be done to separate letters that have been kerned and tracked very closely together. (more…)
Showcase of Artist Websites
As someone who keeps myself regularly updated with artists within the art scene (lowbrow/underground/pop surrealism) I find it very hard to find artists with websites that match their work. It is so surprising to see a group of such highly creative people have such sub=par web presences.
I guess part of this goes back to the “my work is so good, that my website doesn’t need to be” mentality that many artists have, but whatever the reason is there are simply too many great artists with sites that don’t match their talent. So I began a search for some of the better (there‘s too many artists out there to call this a best of list) artist websites out there and here’s a sampling of what I found:
Artist: Friends With You
The FriendsWithYou website is one of the few sites I found that’s actually designed…..really well. The typography is clean, the 3d navigation buttons are a great touch, and the use of mouse-interactivity in the flash header is a simple tie-in to FWY’s world of smiley faced silliness. Images in blog posts are greyscaled until hover, and they’re big and splashy. A site that’s very easy on the eyes, as well as easy to navigate. (more…)