Vol: 001 | Issue: 005
The bv02 creative digest is a compilation of thoughts, links, musings, and inspiration that has caught the eye of our creative team over the past week. A combined effort from Matt Davidson (New Media), Paul Wright (User Experience), Matt Ernst and Daniel Bianchi (Creative)
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UX this week
Looking to fill possible gaps in your design process? Perhaps http://styletil.es/ is your thing: “Present clients with interface choices without making the investment in multiple Photoshop mock-ups. Style tiles are for when a mood board is too vague and a comp is too literal. They establish a direct connection with actual interface elements without defining layout. They work well for clients who have established brands and need them to translate smoothly to the web. Whereas the word “mood” is often associated with brand and identity design, the word “style” was chosen to mirror “cascading style sheets” and reinforce that Style Tiles are specific to Web design.”
Content! Content! Content! It’s the most important piece in web design and with device sizes fragmenting and the context in which you are using the Internet changing so much, we need to rethink how we approach our content. Read Brad Frost’s great For a Future Friendly Web for current thoughts and some great tips. This passage is especially poignant: “To remedy these problems we need to analyze our content and establish strong content strategies to ensure our content is meaningful to our users and our businesses. Every product feature, every line of copy, every included script needs to have purpose and needs to be relevant to a growing number of contexts. We need to be ruthless in stripping away cruft to deliver strong, focused user experiences.”
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Blog post of the week
In this excellent post, Teknision brings us a very interesting (and yet obvious) topic: When it comes to User Experience, the user have to have FUN! Simply like that.
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Illustration of the week
When it comes to Editorial Illustration, one of the biggest challenges is to to communicate daily facts with creativity without being cliché.
This illustration above (Time-consuming Facebook) by Tuomas Ikonen is a great example of success because of its originality and subtle irony. Great job!
Click here to see more illustrations by this artist from Finland.
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Photo of the week
This photo is captured inside one of Sweden’s most secure data centres. Inside a mountain, and built inside an old bunker designed to withstand a hydrogen bomb sits this Bond / Star Wars inspired space. Gardens have been planted, waterfalls flow, and people live and work within this amazingly designed place.
Check out more photos and stats of the Pionen data center on Royal Pingdom
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Video of the week
Wes Anderson’s Trailer for Moonrise Kingdom. (not new…but amazing)
Looks like Wes Anderson is at it again with his next movie Moonrise Kingdom which is slated to be the opening film for Cannes. The film looks to be exactly what we expect from Wes, with artfully crafted sets where every piece in the scene has meaningful importance.
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Web-font pick of the week
At bv02, we’ve been working to build a web font library with some good alternatives to the traditional web fonts used in most web sites out there (such as Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, etc).
Museo Sans is a sturdy, low contrast, geometric, highly legible sans serif typeface very well suited for any display and text use.
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