Hi all,

New design launched! Do browse around and give your feedback!

This is a campaign to promote IKEA’s wardrobe solutions. IKEA wanted to show their huge range of styles and all the smart features on the inside.

All the movements on the web site are controlled by sound and music.
So change songs, upload your own music, play on your keyboard or sing into the microphone.

Visit the site

They say life imitates art. Lo and behold! While looking through my feeds, found some thing that might be of interest to everyone in Digital Five. Or if not everyone, to the big guy anyway. (Here’s the link; 33 Exceptional Logo Rebranding In 2008 For Your Inspiration)

Like what has been posted by Jepf before, a logo or a brand is an evolution. Design fades. New ones must crop up to replace the old.

So here it is, 33 corporate logo redesign or rebranding that took place in 2008.

Discovery Channel

Hewlett-Packard

Thomson Reuters

Tasti D-Lite

CNET

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Several sites are beginning to get more and more visits for its very deep library of articles, information and resources on web design today.

One of them is Smashing Magazine. Another site has popped-up on my always visit list, and which I subscribed to is Mashable. Excerpted (and edited) below is from an article in Mashable - Web Design Toolbox: 130+ New Tools to Make You a Better and Faster Designer.

Edited because I went through all of the 130+ sites listed (yes it was tiring) and in this article, have kept only the ones that matters or should matter to breed of web designers who on a daily basis strive to achieve the balance of creative design and front end engineering.

2 strong criterias behind what gets removed and what don’t from the original list is that first, the sites must be free and no registration required. And second, that it must be an engine that is useful to the creative designer as the end user. Most importantly in the end, even if these sites don’t make you a better designer, they most definitely will make you a faster web builder.

[Addendum] Besides removing items that don’t matter from the list, I have now added in more collections from my delicious bookmarks.

CSS and Code Design Tools

YAML Builder
Easy to use YAML (Yet Another Multicolumn Layout) XHTML/CSS site layout builder.

960 Grid System
Streamline web design production workflow by using commonly used dimensions in grid layout format.

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Occassionally, when prancing around the Internet I’d find some sites that would make me say to myself “cool site”.

Sometimes, in rare times, I’d then come across website design that can make me cry. Not because that they are nice, But because they are f******g nice.

Recently, a post Smashing Magazine made me do just that. It posted an article by Torley Wong’s on great user interface ideas. (Link to original – “Creative User Interfaces in Modern Web Design” here).

I decided to check all of the websites out. And most of them really truly inspired me that I had to share with the team here. I’ve replaced the author; Torley Wong’s article with mine below. Feel free to visit the original article and read up on his thoughts. Some sites have also been omitted from my updated version as I believe, after checking the works, they did not really fit into the context of user interface design from the perspective that I am writing on.

Hope you enjoy it. And to the design team working with me, hope you are all truly inspired to go create stuff as good as these.

OkayDave

Dave Werner’s website is not new. It’s been around since 2006. And I first saw it was back then. Yet even till now (now being 2008) it is still innovative and ahead of the curve. What is more surprising was that he had created this site as part of his portfolio piece for his graduation. Yes. His student work kicks more ass than most industry veteran designers combined.

Dave Werver

Vimeoland

Vimeo is cool. Vimeo with HD is cooler. Vimeo with VimeoLand is coolest. Vimeoland is like watching a cartoon show with characters going around speaking in videos. This is probably experimental and a fun side project by the staff. But heck, it’s a way to show videos to the short-attention-span, visually oriented group.

vimeoland

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