Jim Carrey’s and Jeff Bridges Crazy Web Sites

Post a Comment By Chris Tingom on March 7, 2010

Comedian and actor Jim Carrey has a pretty bizarre web site. It’s filled with crazy animations, strange sound and music, and some surprises.

Actor Jeff Bridges fills his site with interesting illustrations and writing.

Inspired by a post on Hacker News.

NBC Miami’s “Like” Button

Post a Comment By Chris Tingom on February 22, 2010

Check out this sweet feature on the NBC Miami web site.

Whenever visitors are viewing an article they can rate it based on a number of factors — like “Laughing” or “Furious.” It’s a great way to gauge reader opinion without requiring that they leave a comment.

And — after you’ve shared your opinion, you can easily share it on Twitter or Facebook.

Designing for Social Traction

Post a Comment By Chris Tingom on February 20, 2010

An excellent presentation that might help you encourage signups in your next social web app.

LEAP Organics’ Package Design

1 Comment By Kent Downer on February 12, 2010

These designs are just flat out amazing to me. Love the vibrant color, detail, typography, effects. Designed by Moxie Sozo for Leap Organics and scheduled to launch spring 2010. Can’t wait to see them in the wild.

Ugmonk Shirts

Post a Comment By Chris Tingom on February 10, 2010

the Ugmonk Shop is bucking the trend and showing their t-shirts with wrinkles. They also have some really cool shirt designs.

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Font Squirrel

1 Comment By Chris Tingom on January 27, 2010

If you haven’t been paying attention, you may have missed learning about Font Squirrel. Here at Tornado we’re big fans of the site. It is quickly becoming one of the best sources of high quality fonts on the web — and free ones, too.

They recently released @Font-Face Kits, which is a tool that allows you to easily use any of the fonts on Font Squirrel in your web sites. It’s a great tool for using custom fonts but preserving search optimization.

AJ-Hewitt

1 Comment By Chris Tingom on January 15, 2010

Luxury tailor AJ-Hewitt has a site that shows off their fine clothing. I rather like the muted color palette and the big photos.

Boxee Launches New Site Design

2 Comments By Chris Tingom on January 9, 2010

Boxee is a free service you can use to stream a bunch of video sources to your television. It’s very popular, and they just recently updated their web site and I think it’s gorgeous.

A few of the things I liked:

  • The way the video is at the top of the page, but mostly hidden until you click on it.
  • The way the navigation bar is a pull down showing extra functionality — it’s not really a navigation bar in the traditional sense.