Monthly Archives: April 2009

Inspired By Pin-Up Girls

Gil Elvren painting

Design inspiration should come from all kinds of sources. Pin-up artwork gives you great curves, lines and shapes, perspective and bold use of color. I love the old 40s and 50s style of pin-up artwork, but there are also great […]

Why Style Guides Are Cool

Picture of different colored paints

Style guides are a great addition to any web designer’s service. For larger companies and clients they’ll be an expected part of delivery, or they may provide you with a style guide you have to follow. For smaller clients they […]

Funky Friday Collection – 10 April 2009

Here’s this week’s selection of great links I’ve come across in the past seven days. I seem to have gone with a CSS focused theme this week when it comes to technique and resources.

Design Inspiration

22 Radiant Red Websites […]

CSS Naked Day, Treating Visitors With Disrespect

Image of naked mannequin.

CSS Naked Day is a demonstration of how insular the web design community can be. You’ll see many ugly sites today describing how they’ve disabled their CSS to show how their code adheres to web standards. Those sites may be […]

Inspirational Vintage Styles

Picture of woman in bath.

I’m a sucker for vintage styles – victorian, steampunk, deco. I came across a great collection of 1920s fashion on Behance recently, and it inspired me to take a look around and see what other portfolios had to offer along […]