Electric Weekend is the blog and link collection of Phil Bowell. Phil is a Christian graphic designer based in the UK.
There has to be room for creativity within your product or website. Designers hate having all their ideas shut down. That’s what you’re paying for, after all. If you have a strong vision of what you want your site or product to look like, it’s going to be very tough to work with you. Do [...]
The D&AD Awards for 2009 have been announced. Being a designer I always look forward to seeing what The Establishment has picked out to honour each year. It barely seems like 2 months, let alone 2 years since I was exhibiting at the student awards.
Anyway, my highlights for this year are the black pencil award [...]
A brilliant write up which demonstrates how Apples new Mobile Me feature Find My iPhone works. This kind of thing is brilliant advertising for Apple. Heck it’s seriously making me consider a Mobile Me subscription.
Pat Dryburgh has made a bit of a change to his blog url. IT happened a bit quicker than planned, but his blgo can now be found at patdryburgh.com. Just wanted to give him a hand in publicising the change, so if you subscribe to Pat’s blog please remember to update your feed. If you’re [...]
Some absolutely fantastic imagery created during the design/development/writing stage of Disney Pixar’s latest, UP.
(Via Signal Noise.)
A very interesting video produced by a guy from Google. He went out to the streets of New York and asked people if they knew what a browser is. I’m not in the slightest bit surprised by the answers given. I’ve come across similar uncertainty at work when I’ve told people to open their browser [...]
Congratulations to Shaun Inman who has just released the first version of his new feed reader Fever. I’ll be checking this out later, but I’m intrigued at the way it seems to be filling a gap in the feed reading market by promoting items you might find more interesting to the top of the list [...]
I forgot to link this yesterday after I saw Chris Bowler’s tweet about upcoming updates to NetNewsWire. Exciting stuff. Will be interesting to see how a good feed reader like NNW will work with Google Reader.
Shawn Blanc posts his thoughts on The Ideal iPhone.
Some interesting thoughts, although I disagree with Shawn’s thoughts about the form factor of the phone itself. Having held my house mates 1st Gen and my 3G, I much prefer the 3G. Feels much more natural in my hand.
However, I couldn’t agree more with Shawn’s parting paragraph.
It [...]
It seems to be the season for redesigns at the moment, Michael Mistretta has launched a new version of his weblog. Michael called in the services of Cameron Hunt, which judging by the results was a very good move. I like it a lot.
Sean Sperte has just launched a redesign for his blog Geek & Mild.
It’s a very beautiful mature piece of design, I too really like the ampersand and no surprises Sean uses the nicest one around (Baskerville Italic). I also really dig the unique way Sean links to his archives. The little blocks to the right [...]
I really like it when designers share a little of the creative process the go through. I like it even more when that designer is one I find inspiring. Tim Van Damme shares a little snippet of the process he went through to design the logo for Kukoo.
I’ve always been fascinated with looking at other people’s sketch books so Jason Santa Maria’s Pretty Sketchy post is right up my street. I really like the design and the way he presents his post, but most of all I like the resultant Flickr group. A veritable feast of inspiration and one I’ll be contributing [...]
My favourite iPhone Twitter client is coming to the Mac. I’ve been hearing about it for the last couple of weeks and I’m not afraid to say I’m quite excited by this first look. Roll on Monday when it will be released to the world.
(Via @atebits.)
This is exciting, well for me anyway. From tomorrow Starbucks new instant coffee VIA will be available in select London stores. Hopefully I’ll manage to get hold of some to try.
Kyle Meyer has made public the code he uses to make his excellent archives page. I might have to explore this a little later, I’ve always been a fan of Kyle’s design on this page, it adds that extra bit of meaning to the list of posts.
I’ve been wanting to link to this for a while for a few reasons. The first I just love the design and rebranding of Squared Eye. I’ve found it insanely inspiring, and Levi the whale is so full of character and the whole concept so well thought out that it just screams of forward thinking, [...]
Cameron Moll takes a look at Cufon a budding alternative to the popular sIFR. When it comes to web design the choice of fonts are, as I’m sure you know, severely limited. This actually looks like something I could use with my limited knowledge of web development.
Dan Benjamin reviews the new Starbucks VIA. It sounds promising judging by Dan’s review and I’d like to try it, but judging by it’s limited availability in the States I can’t see it arriving on these shores for some time.
I’m a little late, by a few months, to this but I wanted to post it anyway. Some excellent advertisements for the new Harvey Nics in Bristol. What better way to advertise than to use some of the city’s most well known characters.
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