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Made a fun new site as a personal The61

January 03 Comments Off on Made a fun new site as a personal The61 Category: Feed, Tumblr, Web Design

Made a fun new site as a personal The61SongObsessed is an open source site for me to share my favorite songs and write about them. Since early 2009 I’ve been using a variety of sites to keep track of one song a day, a week or a month. Sometimes I…

Challenge: Re-Imagining the Hamburger Icon

September 15 Comments Off on Challenge: Re-Imagining the Hamburger Icon Category: Feed, Tumblr, Web Design

Challenge: Re-Imagining the Hamburger Icon:

The navicon, most of us are familiar with it, have seen it countless of times and have even tapped it more than once on our mobile devices. You might even know it by its various names. The three line menu, drawer, menu icon, side swipe, three stripes or the ever popular hamburger icon are just a few names you will find associated with the navicon. Regardless of the name you give this commonly used icon the point is that it’s been the subject of many debates. 

The newly popular “hamburger” icon starter, like most pieces of your computer’s user interface, in a Xerox lab.

jamesdigioia: rosalarian: pigeonbits: Color palette tutorial…

July 02 Comments Off on jamesdigioia: rosalarian: pigeonbits: Color palette tutorial… Category: Feed, Tumblr, Web Design

jamesdigioia:

rosalarian:

pigeonbits:

Color palette tutorial time!

This is by no means the Only Way To Pick Colors—it’s just a relatively-simple method I use sometimes.  I’ve found it works pretty well, almost regardless of what colors you pick—as long as you can keep them organized by those light/dark warm/cool categories, and make sure one category takes up a significantly higher proportion of page space, it usually turns out pretty good!

I struggled with color for a long time before eventually reaching this conclusion, and here it is all laid out nicely for you lucky people by the talented and Eisner-nominated Melanie Gillman. So listen to them!

Also useful for websites.

jamesdigioia: rosalarian: pigeonbits: Color palette tutorial…

July 02 Comments Off on jamesdigioia: rosalarian: pigeonbits: Color palette tutorial… Category: Feed, Tumblr, Web Design

jamesdigioia:

rosalarian:

pigeonbits:

Color palette tutorial time!

This is by no means the Only Way To Pick Colors—it’s just a relatively-simple method I use sometimes.  I’ve found it works pretty well, almost regardless of what colors you pick—as long as you can keep them organized by those light/dark warm/cool categories, and make sure one category takes up a significantly higher proportion of page space, it usually turns out pretty good!

I struggled with color for a long time before eventually reaching this conclusion, and here it is all laid out nicely for you lucky people by the talented and Eisner-nominated Melanie Gillman. So listen to them!

Also useful for websites.