Action Envelopes

I liked the unique layout of Smithsonian Magazine. It’s very clean and there are a lot of nice thumbnail size images to get my interest as I browse around. High five.

I found the Blurb web site yesterday by accident and really love it! It’s so distinctive yet strangely reminds me of a design I tried to do a few years ago. Anyhow, just wanted to pass it along. It’s one of the cooler sites I have seen in a while.

You have to give some credit to the PR folks at Macy’s. They’ve been able to push a Thanksgiving parade with their name on it for years and years (all of my life anyways). They also are the featured department store in Miracle on 34th Street. That’s no small win. I liked the Macy’s site,…

I thought this was a cool web site for a Hawaiian design firm. Bump Networks. They’ve got a cool frog on the homepage and when you move your mouse around the eye follows it. Fun.

Swivel is one of the coolest web apps I have seen in recent weeks. It’s a super clean layout and actually useful. It’s a great example of bringing a technology that’s difficult to accomplish to the masses.

Besides introducing some new models Segway launched a new web site last week and I thought I’d post it here and share some comments I have on the design. You can immediately tell that they’re going after the offroad market. The site just looks like Jeep or Land Rover. Brighter colors, bolder type treatments. They’ve…