bv02 Creative Digest: Issue 8

May012012

Vol: 001 | Issue: 008

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 discussion of the week

The big UX news this week was the Jakob Nielsen, longtime web usability expert declared that you should, “Build a separate mobile-optimized site if you can afford it”. This set off a fierce storm on Twitter, especially among proponents of mobile-first and responsive web design who argue that except for in certain extraordinary situations you should do the exact opposite. Open-web evangelist Bruce Lawson leans toward that camp, arguing on Smashing Magazine that, We Shouldn’t Make Separate Mobile Websites and that (I’m paraphrasing heavily here):

  • we’ve been there before on the web and maintaining two sites can lead to out-dated and/or missing content
  • we can’t always check for mobile users and redirect them in a reliable, future-friendly way
  • some mobile users want the full context/experience (we don’t always know their browsing context – perhaps they’re at home, on fast internet)
  • we shouldn’t be arbitrarily splitting users along this “mobile” line. The line is blurry and will only get more so in the future.

A good read on an important subject for web makers and users.

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Photo of the week

Amazing stereographic (think tiny planet) photo that captures all four dimensions. You can see the day and night pass in the same photo. Breathtaking.

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Video of the week

Dumt & Farligt – Phantom Flex Highlights

You’d think ultra slow motion videos are a little passe, but these guys really did something different, and the video kept me totally engaged for the entire 5 minutes. Basically, they set up the most dangerous things they could do inside/around a house and filmed it all with a Phantom high speed video camera – beautiful destruction ensues.

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Illustration

The Star Wars Day is coming and the illustration of this week in a series of posters called “Star Wars Identities”. A great mosaic that uses elements from the movie to compound each character. Well done!

Check all posters here

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Typography of the week

While Adelle is a slab serif typeface conceived specifically for intensive editorial use, mainly in newspapers and magazines, its personality and flexibility make it a real multiple-purpose typeface. The unobtrusive appearance, excellent texture and slightly dark color allow it to behave flawlessly in continuous text setting, even in the most demanding editorial applications. Its energetic character, so inherent to slab serif fonts, becomes evident as the typeface is used for subheadings and headlines.

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Blog post of the week

Startups, this is how design works” is a very instructive guide for non-designers. This very inspired post by Wells Riley leverages the importance of design and how it contributes to solve problems with originality and creativity. A definite must-read.

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Website of the week

How many slaves work for you? That is a hard question to ask maybe because you have never thought about this before.

The Slavery Footprint website does a great job raising awareness to this theme by helping people to find the answer in a very appealing and interactive way.

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One response to “bv02 Creative Digest: Issue 8”

  1. Sian says:

    Sounds good. But you can also design your life even if you are not palnning on being a web designer. You always design your own life even when you don’tthink you are.