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Websites for Visual Inspiration

If you're looking for instant graphic inspiration, great visual ideas, or just want to see some cool images, check out these visual blogs and websites: Words & Eggs, Stephen Kroninger on Drawger, A Journey Round My Skull, Ethan Persoff, and All My Eyes. These five sites are all strong in illustration and publication design, as well as book covers, comics, posters, and much more. I look at all five of these every day, and am filled with respect and admiration for their dedication, love, and overall smartness towards graphic design and visuals of all kinds.

(Above: The Masses, November 1916, illustration by Hugo Gellert, from Words & Eggs.)


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Woodtyper

Nick Sherman is a young type designer at MyFonts.com, and a lover of wood type. He did a residency at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, has taught typography and letterpress printing at MassArt, and advised on Typeface, a documentary about the Hamilton Museum. 

I met Nick last year at TypeCon in Atlanta, and recently came across his blog, Woodtyper: Notes on Large and Ornamented Type and Related Matters. Definitely a person to watch, and clearly, to read. http://woodtyper.com/

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Film Titles Galore

Christian Annyas is a web designer who created an exhaustive, rich site, for his collection of screenshots of film titles. The site's organization and design make it easy to navigate and a great type resource. There's even a quick synopsis of each film plot, end cards, trailers, and Amazon links for purchase. Thank you, Christian.

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Wonderwall: Our current favorite portfolio display

Wonderwall is a Japanese interior design firm with the coolest, sleekest display of their work. Their interior and product design portfolio is displayed in a series of boxes. When you roll your curser over each box it pulses and bulges and twists, making an elegant little popping sound. Words can't describe just how well Wonderwall exhibits their work, but it offers much inspiration for both print and digital design.… MORE

Life at Hollywoodlife.com

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All My Eyes visual blog

All My Eyes is the new visual blog by former Fortune magazine graphics editor Linda Eckstein. Brilliantly edited, written, and curated, All My Eyes features visual inspiration from many visual disciplines, including poster design, packaging, photography, illustration, information graphics, found objects, historical paraphernalia, and much more. Eckstein draws on an impressive knowledge of contemporary and archival sources to present images that delight, inspire, and educate. … MORE

Nypost.com: A User-friendly Redesign

The New York Post's website, nypost.com, re-launched this past September with new features and a new design. Whether you admire the daily's vibe or just find guilty pleasure in PageSix, fans of user-centric web design will admire its user-friendly nature. I chatted recently with Nick Gould, CEO of Catalyst Group, the folks behind the new look and feel.… MORE

Vibe Is... Back

From our Facebook fan page, Glen Karpowich shares news of a Vibe relaunch with digital focus.

NPR.org to relaunch Monday

Apparently NPR has a new site launching Monday. The video tour they have put together is quite nice and offers some insight into what makes a good news site, view it here:

http://www.npr.org/services/new_site/index.html?sc=nl&cc=progserv-20090723

I urge any of you that can spare a few minutes this weekend to check out the current NPR.org site to get a feel for the changes that will roll out next Monday. Even better if any of you are fans of NPR.org let us know what you think works (or doesn't) in the new version of the site.

*Note : The above screengrab is of NPR.org before the relaunch
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Jeremy LaCroix on Web Design: Name that Site

A nice little clip from last summer. SPD's very own Pub 44 Online Chair Jeremy LaCroix dishes out a few great lessons on web design at the Stanford Professional Publishing Course. Video after the jump.  … MORE