Paddy Donnelly:
Having too many choices is one of the main obstacles for 21st century designers. With virtually unlimited tools and possibilities at our fingertips in the digital age, our creativity can become clouded very easily. Being inundated with thousands of photoshop brushes or fonts can push the very concept of a design from the forefront of your mind.
Free to use (some even free to use commercially) font face recommendations at Beautiful Pixels.
Adit Gupta, for Smashing Magazine:
Because of its beautiful nature, mathematics has been a part of art and architectural design for ages. But it has not been exploited much for website design. This is probably because many of us regard mathematics as being antithetical to creativity. On the contrary, mathematics can be a tool to produce creative designs.
A little Star Wars for your living room. Works great in conjunction with this Pure CSS3 AT-AT Walker.
(Via Spreeblick.)
Paddy Donnelly:
If everything of exceptional quality is pushed upon the reader at the beginning, once they start exploring and the rest of the site isn’t of the same calibre, they’re going to be let down.
(Via @Flocke.)
Product designer Martin Neuhaus designed this wall lamp which projects a three-dimensional, colored shadow of a classic lampshade when switched on. Switched off, however, it’s just a cup on a stick.
(Via designboom.)