Tag Archives: design

Back to members: the new 9rules

Yesterday saw the launch of the new 9rules. The post announcing it’s launch on the 9rules blog – 9rules vol 3 edition 1 – shows the focus has moved back onto members content and the design reflects this. My first reaction on seeing it was ‘wow’, my second was ‘woot’ and my third was akin to a little girl excited noise just like someone had given me a new toy.

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Back to minimal

There really seems a return to the minimal in design lately, something I’m more than happy to see after the gradient madness of the last year or so. I’m seeing more and more new designs coming out where less is really more. Galleries seem to be once again brimming full of powerful minimal design, it’s a refreshing change. In part minimal design never went away it seems now the focus is coming back to it though as it rightly deserves as one of the most effective and often hardest to achieve design styles. So, what does make a minimal design?

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From psd to code my way

Considering a lot of the work I do is taking my design and crafting it into code, I thought I would write a mini tutorial on how I go through this process. I’m sure my process is fairly similar to mosts after all there are only a limited number of things you can do differently to get the result, but I thought it may be a good way to bring insight into both my working process and be also of interest to someone who may not have done it before.

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