
There has been an on ongoing feud in User Interfaces, whether light text on a dark background is better than dark text on a light background. Dark or black backgrounds are often being associated with sexiness and gloss, and white backgrounds being clean but generic. Both (obviously) have their merits and uses, but the concern surrounds whether or not one is more physically straining than the other. the results of one colour and readability survey had this to say: (more…)
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I’ve had these for a while, just hadn’t taken pictures or put them up yet
go see the whole collection in the portfolio, a few more coming shortly…
Continue readingHello Designers!
Tired of doing the same things again and again? Why not use my personal Lazy Kit,
filled with useful time savers and ‘best practice’ principles. Give it a download and
try it on your next website design mock-up.

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Continue readingJust written a post for Platformability explaining how in a few easy steps,
you can optimise your blog for iPhones, Android, HTC, Blackberry.
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lots of new features and goodies…

Well, haven’t posted in a while … there’s been a lot of changes on my end,
but the good news is i’ve had a bit of time to start working on the new theme.
I’m going for something a lot more simple and clean looking so that the focus
is on the content with lots of @fontface and CSS3 niceness….
Im still working on it as you can see… any thought?
Continue readingFor all you broken hearts out there, a modular origami. A heart in 9 square sheets of paper… Yeah… Happy valentines ..

Continue readingVery Inspiring product design by Soon Mo Kang




If the Hanger Tea were to be submitted as an entry to tea-packaging-awards (if such a thing existed), I say it would win hands down! I can’t think of a better or more obvious way to pack teabags than this hanger & T-shirt design. It’s a funny take on how the simple motion of hanging a used teabag on the rim of your cup, be done. Color-coded for different varieties, the hangers are rather cute and so are the tea-shirts!
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Artist Kevin Cyr made this Camper Bike, a functioning sculptural piece, built in April 2008. A stand alone piece and the subject of a series of paintings.
Super inspiring…i’d love to have one
more pics on kevincyr.net
Continue readingAnother nice freebie for for your desktop (^__^)


Continue readingHow about buying that special person a hermit design t-shirt this christmas! eh…
..how about that, and maybe if i’m lucky they will throw some small sharp coins at me…
can i have some more please sir…
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