Digitalthread: Ultimate design resource

Posted on January 7, 2009 by michelle

Mel turned me on to this great website called Digitalthread. They are a great online resource for only the best web design firms, top freelance portfolios, and graphic design resources from online submissions and discovered web sites. I can’t believe I been in the design world and not known about them! The site is clean and easy to navigate through. The three buttons on the top left side allow the user to choose from 3 different buckets: webdesign gallery, design companies and designresources. They’ve done a great job at categorizing the content that goes under each section.

I found so many cool and interesting websites with just a few clicks. Definitely browse through the site. Mel and I will be featuring a new portfolio and website each week. Stay tuned.

Music is my heartbeat

Posted on October 20, 2008 by melaniewilliams

I hope everyone had a great weekend! A friend of mine called me at 8 pm on Friday saying he had an extra ticket to the Angels and Airwaves and Weezer concert! I missed Tokyo Police Club who also performed that night, but I heard they were awesome. I came in the middle of the Angels and Airwaves performance and they had so much energy! I’m not familiar with all of their music, but they sounded GREAT live. Weezer rocked my world with a mix of their old classics and new stuff. They also had tons of energy and gave an entertaining performance. They are all very talented and I was impressed. I love live music. (Photo to the left was taken on my iphone) Since I’m on the topic, here are some other artists that are “most played” in our office right now: (I also made notes about their websites. It’s interesting to see how a band brands themselves online.)

Cold War Kids

- LRG img in BG – vlack and white, bold headers

MGMT

- the anti-design, a new trend of bright colors, tiled BG and ugly fonts

LOVE the music, don’t love the style

Mates of State

classic, sophisticated and hand-drawn

Yael Naim

- miz of textures, watercolor and hand-drawn effect with photos

MIA

the anti-design + flash – my ultimate nightmare… still love her music though

Adele

simple, text-based, bought her CD last week and can’t get it out of my head

SIA

-another anti-design – white BG, too many colors, hand-drawn elements

Death for Cutie

-sweet retro-vibe

Lee Coulter

-myspace for now, but working on new website – aussie style

Brett Dennen

-water-color effects

Zank

-cool collage site, photos and stamps from travels

Tegan and Sara

-text based + LRG BG image

Tori Amos

-changes her website to match her CD art, this one is very urban, graphic design-y

Of Montreal

-hand-drawn + collage

10 Rad Website Designs

Posted on October 1, 2008 by melaniewilliams

YES, we said RAD. Here are a few websites that rock our world. These are a great source for inspiration and entertainment! Check it:

Checkland Kindleysides

*Interesting paper-like animation (doesn’t over-use flash)
*clean design
*easy navigation

BBH New York

*Unique navigation in intro
*super clean design
*clear grid, lots of white (breathing room! YAY)
*understated flash elements

Change Integrated

*Fun interactive way to connect with the company (nice use of photos)
*entire site on 1 pg – it’s hard to incorporate everything into 1 pg!
*great branding

Sour Sally