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Design inspiration: long live the API!

Take a look at this thoughtful visual identity created by Neue for the Nordkyn tourist board. Nordkyn is a region in northern Norway, known for its natural beauty, surreal light conditions and temperamental weather. Inspired by the the tagline “where nature rules”, Neue took a feed of the weather statistics from the Norwegian Meteorological institute […]

Design inspiration: colour your world

To me, colour is one of those mysteries like typography: I’ve got no idea how to get it right myself, but when I see something that is just perfect, I can recognise it. We’ve all seen dozens of online colour pickers, but one I found this morning, called Colourcode, really stands out, and not just […]

Design inspiration: the Shadow App site

This caught my eye a few weeks ago: it’s the site for an iPhone app to help you remember your dreams, called Shadow. Things I like like: the judicious use of the “zooming fade to black” effect on the sepia tone photo to set a lovely dreamy tone right from the start great use of […]

Dan Hill – Closing keynote: 15 years in

Dan Hill PortraitIt is time for the practice of web development and design to broaden its horizons. How can the skills and experience we’ve acquired over the last 15 years of working on the internet be applied more broadly to, say, the design of cities, buildings, organisations, government and so on?

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