A couple of the guys in our office are big fans of Converse shoes and so when I saw their new web site I knew I had to share it with you all.
The entire site is made with Flash and besides the great product photography, they have some great background textures. And most of the textures are fabrics like those from Converse shoes.
Many of the products have hand drawn illustrations for a backdrop. It works surprisingly well and fits the theme of the site.
Here at the office we’ve been looking over these awesome images from artist Christian Faur. He creates art with interesting materials like paper and crayons. Thanks to Kent who spotted this.
I’m extremely pleased to introduce the new BrainFuel to you! This has been a team effort from Kent Downer and myself at Tornado. We’ve been planning a re-launch of this site for a while and are excited about the changes.
As you know, BrainFuel has been publishing since 2001 and our desire is to share the best of web design. With tips, tricks, and profiles of cool sites we see in the wild. A new feature will be a monthly interview with a designer.
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BrainFuel is a production of Tornado in Phoenix, AZ. We’re also the makers of Minuteglass.
BrainFuel originally launched on January 25, 2001. To celebrate our 8+ years of posting here on BrainFuel we’ve decided to re-launch with a new design and more focus.
Now, we’re going to focus exclusively on design and start a new column interviewing designers we respect in the industry.
This iteration of BrainFuel was designed by myself and Andrew Smith. It has lasted quite a while and been really great. But it is time to move on.
I can’t locate the previous design except I have located a whole lot of crazy header images we made. You can see all of them here.
This was an earlier logo we used here on BrainFuel.
Ben Wood was responsible for this design, which we hosted on Blogger. There was one day when Blogger accidentally charged our credit card twice and we called Ev up and sorted it out.
Another design by Ben Wood
The very first version of BrainFuel was called “Cool Sites” and was hosted as a subdomain. After that we moved it to BrainFuel.tv (Ben Wood came up with the name).
If you’ve been a reader of this blog for any length of time you have probably noticed that we’ve slowed down a little bit — that’s because we’ve been working on our startup, Minuteglass (now in beta).
Stay tuned as we launch the new site later today!
I am excited to announce that BrainFuel is being relaunched! We have been working on a redesign. The redesign will be launching next week!
In addition to the new design, we are also launching a monthly column where we interview designers. This will be a monthly column. We’ve hired a Phoenix wordsmith named Joey Robert Parks to do these interviews and we’re extremely excited about the line up.
We’re excited about the line up and can’t wait to launch the new BrainFuel! Stay tuned!
The homepage for Ritual Roasters is pretty minimal. Two photos and a logo. I really liked how they juxtaposed the plant (possibly coffee leaf?) with the classic leaf latte art design as its roots. The two photos link to different pages on the site showing an emphasis on the origin and roasting of their coffee.
Here’s a bit of fun inspiration to start off your Monday morning. This page has some neat illustrations made from clipped up copies of the Wall Street Journal.
Okay, so there are some good band website designs out there. The Blizzards for example:
But I looked at a lot of sites before I came across any that were better than just average as far as design goes. Is it because it’s easier to put up a band page on MySpace instead of pushing design boundaries?
Where are the innovative site designs bands used to have? Drop me a comment link to any nice band website design you’ve seen recently.
Here are some nice ones I have found so far:
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