My Bloglines - Branding, Design and Usability
For those of you who don’t know what Bloglines is, you might as well go and check out the link. But in short, it allows you a one stop place to monitor all your RSS feeds. There are a quite a few tools that do this (even your portals like Yahoo and Google), but this one was the first one I was introduced to, and you know how that goes. (They won me!) Which one do you use?
But it seems lately that I’ve clicked so many of those “Keep New” boxes that I get overwhelmed with posts I want to read further into every time I go to see the new ones. So I thought I’d post the links here. (I’m moving quickly today, so I’ll have to put little one-liners to go with them later.)
But hey! You got a new post. (Something that’s been lacking for a while from the Daily Brad… uh, Yearly Brad is more like it.) I do have a excuse, as my latest project of flipping a house has kept my creative interests outside of work “offline”.
Here’s the links:
Branding:
- MassTerful Identity
- The Roaring Mouse
- Dubai’s Global Globe
- Vectors and Gradients Run Rampant: The New Swiss Style
- I ♥ Wolff Olins
- Enterprise gets Unionized
- 70 of the best logo design resources
Design
- Prepare for any marketing or promotionopportunity with a customizable ‘media kit
- Creative Freelancer Conference site goes live
- Marketing through social networks and social media
- It’s in the cards…
- GD:USA issues annual logo design trend report
- Incoming “logo design love”
- The dreaded “F word” - yea or nay?
- Producing
- 21 Web Design Tips from Web Design Gurus to Beginners
- 70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials
- Let There Be Light: Light Paintings and Sculptures
- Textures and Patterns Design Showcase
- CSS Editors Reviewed
- Beautiful Brochures and Booklets
- Applying Divine Proportion To Your Web Designs
- 35 Useful Source Code Editors Reviewed
- Pixels Go Mad - The Celebration Of Pixel Art
- Five More Principles Of Effective Web Design
- 5 Principles And Ideas Of Setting Type On The Web
- Inspirational PDF Magazines
- Celebration Of Vintage and Retro Design
- 60 Brilliant Typefaces For Corporate Design
- Laptop Sleeves, Skins and Stickers
- Free Fonts Of The Month: FF Unit, M+ Outline, GeoBats
- 35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets
- Best Of February 2008
- Navigation Menus: Trends and Examples
- 45 More Excellent Blog Designs
- Adobe Illustrator Tutorials - Best Of
- 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design
- Grunge Style In Modern Web Design
- Monday Inspiration: Graphics In Motion
- Best of January 2008
- Usability and Interface Design Books
- Free Fonts Of The Month: Newcastle, Anziano
- Monday Inspiration: Data Visualization and Infographics
- Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
- Hand-Drawing Style In Modern Web Design
- Smashing Highlights 2007
- Dilectio: A Smashing Wordpress Theme
- Group design blogs
- Omniture’s customer Christmas card
- Wolda 08 now open for entries
Usability
Now my Bloglines looks much cleaner, but with the links here I can refer to some of my “come back and look at later” articles. Thanks to the websites who’ve put these together (you can notice that there are quite a few that come from the same websites.)