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Spring Reboot Color Trends

Jeremiah — Thu, 04 May 2006 05:52:24 +0000

Phu Ly notes some of the color trends in his picks from the Spring 2006 CSS Reboot. I’ve been noticing as he has that greens and dark grays seem to be a popular choice these days.

Watch Out, Crump, Here Comes The Yellow Bus

Jeremiah — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:52:19 +0000

From the Bay Area: Hyphy and Ghostriding:
I wonder how long this has been going on. I think a friend of mine was born hyphy—he’s been known to jump out of his car and dance.
[via chartreuse < via Photo Matt]

Trendishly Late

Jeremiah — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:59:32 +0000

There i go, walking down the hallway in my black jacket with a white cord dangling from my ear and a cup with a brown corrugated cardboard sleeve around it in my hand.

Old Faces

Jeremiah — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:34:27 +0000

For a while there, Georgia was the sign of a fresh site design. It meant the site probably used CSS and was even powered by some newfangled blog script. It was clean, appealing. Not the same old Times New Roman. Yet safe. But that was yesterday. Now it’s everywhere. Georgia is the new Times New Roman. The new default. People end up using it without even knowing it used to be what’s up.

That’s why i love stopping by sites like Joe Clark’s fawny.blog [via]. So much going on typographically. He lets the words speak. He literally puts more meaning into one paragraph than i don’t even know how to finish this analogy. Somehow so visually appealing, yet nary a graphic in sight. His stylesheets list over a dozen acceptable font faces so if you happen to have one of those fonts installed on your system, the page is rendered using that face instead of one of the boring standards. Well done. Forget Web 2.0. Here’s to over-populated font sets.

Medallions

Jeremiah — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 05:44:42 +0000

Where web design and fashion cross:

From CARGO magazine “Fashion Trends… Medallion Ties,” December/January 2006.

Yeah, so i guess they’re called medallions.

Another example of the web variant has been in use at Dell.com:

Seal Spotting

Jeremiah — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:29:15 +0000

Another seal spotted at joyent.com:

[via]

Logo Trends

Jeremiah — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 22:35:00 +0000

Go Flock Yourself notes some “joined blob” logos, including Flock’s logo [via WordPress.com Dashboard, Top Posts]. Reminded me of my similar logo post and other possible design trends.

Design Trend 2

Jeremiah — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:33:35 +0000

Are “page curls” a new design trend?

CoreDreams

Anton Peck

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Design Trend

Jeremiah — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 06:19:47 +0000

Are seals a new web design trend? I mean like the little gold foil stickers on diplomas and other important documents? Noticed it on the header at inforedesign [via], and recalled seeing one on the recently revamped ALA: “The numerical bug that sits atop the logo and astride the nav bar makes each issue feel like an important limited edition.” Seems like i’ve seen ‘em elsewhere too.

Man, that List Apart design is so solid. Visually pleasing and clean, with the secondary column tucked neatly to the right of the fold. Love the hover highlight effect on multi-line article titles. The whole thing is just really well-done. Lots of inspiration for the stealin.

Identity Crisis

Jeremiah — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 06:18:08 +0000

Suspect:

miahz.com CNET Networks [via]

Another suspect [20050531]:

Ziff Davis Media [via]