Word of Mouth promo

It’s probably quite strange, what with my huge jabbering face pasted all over it… but it seems to be getting some pretty positive responses out in the twittersphere.

If you’d like to visit the page and maybe waggle my big ol’ chin, please visit the follow link here:

Have a look at thathurtabit.com

Ace Things: Lost Worlds' Fair

To celebrate – if that’s the right word, hopefully it will be – the beta release of IE9…

One of my favourite web designers, Brooklyn’s Jason Santa Maria put together a pretty little thing called Lost Worlds’ Fairs, celebrating the latest web-design technologies and giving us all a whiff of WOFF.

Jason Santa Maria worked with other super-talented folk such as Frank Chimero, Naz Hamid, Trent Walton and Dave Rupert in bringing together 3 designs based around typography, as well as the latest in CSS3, JavaScript and HTML5.

In his own words:

We decided to make designs around a grand series of events, the World’s Fairs. We initially started playing with ideas for the cities we all lived in, but ended up going with locales and fairs that never were. We wanted to feel unrestricted by the design and history that already existed from specific fairs and instead find ways to key in on design aspects of a particular time period.

Despite the design and development clearly being orientated for Mac viewers (not their fault, type rendering on Macs is usually 100% better than on PC browsers) the results are some of the most impressive non-Flash, non-Javascript heavy few pages I’ve ever seen on the web. Super ace stuff.

Check it out here:

http://lostworldsfairs.com/

Ace Things: Cypher13.

Sex sells. Even veraciously homoerotic tongue in-cheek-cheek sex. This post is a quick love letter to Cypher13, a design team who aren’t afraid to let it all hang out.

As a web designer chap, I spend as much time as I can find looking around the internet eating up all the coolizt things the internet can muster. Today, the web-gods have blessed mine eyes with Cypher13; a design-agency team based in Colorado, USA.

They say:

We recognize the opportunity for communication that we’ve created and with it the inherent responsibility. From this responsibility stems a commitment to enrich culture through the creation and execution of our work.

What’s interesting about Cypher13 is their originality. For me, the ‘agencies’ – if they wouldn’t be insulted by being called that – that are truly great aren’t the ones who are falling over themselves to be what they think the client wants them to be, they’re the guys who strip down to their matching y-fronts and hold hands. Perhaps throwing in a suggestive lip-lick.

So, Cypher13 I salute you, your design work, and your rather fetching monochromatic homoeroticism.

Yay Everyday!

Inspiration is rather important. If there was no inspiration, browsing the internet would be as about exciting as browsing through a really, really boring internet. Which makes sense.

Luckily though, there are some valiant individuals out there who strive to destroy the aesthetic dire straits, and colour the web with a collection of the most pretty, witty and often nude things.

And although it might lack the sheer volume of images that ffffound.com has, I think my personal favourite creative inspiration blog is: Yay Everyday!.

They say:

We’re not an image bookmarking site. We don’t selfishly hoard images for ourselves. We’re more interested in sharing the inspiration, website and artist behind the work.

- Which is lovely.

I also happen to like the design and functionality of the website; which was created by Chris Kalani and Tim Neuwerth.