Hellohikimori is a Paris based studio by Nathalie Melato and David Rondel Cambou that does some ass-kickin’ work. They’ve just updated their site with a new look and a bunch of work. They are also some of the brains behind NiceToMeetYou.
Category: Design
Vonnegut Dollhouse
Jeff Harrison just finished this great cd packaging for Rethink. He also has a few behind the scene shots at his flickr site.
RIP Newstoday
One of the great designs blogs that’s been around since the beginning and has inspired many is gone. Newstoday was one of my main sources of inspiration for many years and now it’s been re-branded as QBN. It also got a facelift to go along with the new name. Change is good but I’m sure going to miss hearing “NEEWWWSTODAAAY”.
Matthew Wahl
Check out these great letters Matthew is creating. Great shapes. I wonder if he’s creating a full typeface. Anyway, check out his Design set on Flickr, it’s excellent.
Great Artists Steal
I love this poster by designer Stefan Lucut.
NetNewsWire Style
Recently I’ve started using a great RSS reader called NetNewsWire that makes managing and reading my 50+ feeds much easier and efficient. The one problem I have with it are the styles that are bundled with the app. Some of them are nice but most of them are hard to look at. They also all use pretty the same boring layout. Title, feed info, content, all in a row. So I figured I’d try to make one and see how it comes out and I can honestly say that I like it. I used a grid system to design it so it has a nice structure.
The one issue with it though is that it breaks if there are multiple images in the feed. Works great when there is one image or no image but once there are multiple, they all lay on top of each other so you only see the first image. To fixed this I made a second style titled AisleOne Multiple that alters the layout a bit to compensate for this problem. So you set your style to AisleOne Single and when you get an article with multiple images you change it to AisleOne Multiple. It’s a terrible solution and I’m going to continue working on it. I need to figure out a way for the CSS to see that there are multiple images in the feed and set a different style in that instance. If anyone has any ideas on this, please let me know. Also if you have any issues with the styles just post a comment and I’ll try and fix it.
I’ve only tested it in the new 3.0 version. To install just double click the files.