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Friday Focus 07/23/10: Bento Boxes

This week on Friday Focus: websites whose content are arranged into boxes like those cute bento meals. This time, you must think inside the box!

Friday Focus 07/09/10: Background Repeat

This week on Friday Focus: it’s backgrounds with repeating patterns, a well-loved technique that doesn’t go out of style.

Friday Focus 04/16/10: Slanted

This week on Friday Focus: designs that tilt to one side and keep the perpendicular lines away.

Friday Focus 04/09/10: User-Generated Galleries

This week on Friday Focus: designs that prominently feature user-submitted content, particularly images. How do you prevent monotony and preserve quality on these sites? Let’s find out.

Friday Focus 03/12/10: Grit & Grime

Going dirty has never looked this good! It’s grungy websites this week on Friday Focus.

Friday Focus 02/26/10: Fine Type

This week on Friday Focus: designs that are dressed in fine typography and details.

Friday Focus 01/22/10: Folded Out and 3D

This week on Friday Focus: these folded, boxy 3D-looking designs pose an interesting challenge to the designer in creating perspective and breaking out of boundaries. See how these websites did it!

Friday Focus 12/11/09: Sunbursts

This week, I’ve come across a lot of sites with sunbursts, a specific type of lighting that’s popular with not just the Web 2.0 look anymore. You decide if they’re crucial to the design or not.

Friday Focus 09/25/09: Circles

This week on Friday Focus, we have websites that feature circular shapes prominently in their designs. Time to break out of the boxiness and round things up!

Friday Focus 05/29/09: Huge Type

Typography on the Web is growing bigger and bigger—literally! That is this week’s theme on Friday Focus.

Friday Focus 10/03/08: Giant Imagery

Giant imagery is this week’s theme on Friday Focus. Happy October everyone!