Design Focus • Friday August 26, 2011 by Sophia Lucero with 1 comment
The featured designs in this week’s Friday Focus have something subtle in common: thin, repeating patterns you often see in important documents such as bills, checks, and passports, known as guilloché, and similar to the patterns generated by spirographs.
Design Focus • Friday April 22, 2011 by Sophia Lucero with 2 comments
This week’s Friday Focus is a little meta: a combination of useful guides and tools geared towards designers and developers all wrapped in inspiring designs.
Design Focus • Friday April 15, 2011 by Sophia Lucero with 3 comments
This week on Friday Focus, we’re looking at some sites that employ subtle, unobtrusive animation in their backgrounds.
Design Focus • Friday January 14, 2011 by Sophia Lucero with 2 comments
It’s all about coffee this week on Friday Focus!
Design Focus • Friday October 8, 2010 by Sophia Lucero with 1 comment
Possibly one of the most exciting website genres out there, we’re focusing on event sites this week on Friday Focus.
Design Focus • Friday September 24, 2010 by Sophia Lucero with Comments Off
Some of the most interesting interactions I’ve seen done on websites utilize the one page format. Is it because there are fewer pages, fewer elements that should be easier to manipulate? Enjoy these one page wonders on this week’s Friday Focus.
Design Focus • Friday September 17, 2010 by Sophia Lucero with 1 comment
This week on Friday Focus: designs adorned with the timeless patterns of scalloping and sheared edges.
Design Focus • Friday August 27, 2010 by Sophia Lucero with 2 comments
I’ve noticed a lot of designs with a mostly black and white color palette lately, and not just for site types you’d expect. Is the colorful, rainbow trend being phased out with something more classic? Are people tired of safe, middle-ground gray? Welcome to this week’s Friday Focus.
Design Focus • Friday August 20, 2010 by Sophia Lucero with 2 comments
This week on Friday Focus: designs that feature artistic renderings of skyscrapers and other features of a long landscape. See how they’re incorporated below.
Design Focus • Friday August 13, 2010 by Sophia Lucero with 1 comment
This week on Friday Focus: vines, blooms, and other foliage that do a great job of framing your website.
Design Focus • Friday July 30, 2010 by Sophia Lucero with 5 comments
Sites usually place logos at the top left corner of the page, but nudge them to the center and it makes quite an impact, as a red wax seal does on a white letter envelope. Let’s check out sites with centered logos on this week’s Friday Focus.
Design Focus • Friday July 16, 2010 by Sophia Lucero with 2 comments
The many different textures, colors, and treatments for paper allow infinite possibilities for their use in websites. Not one of these designs look remotely alike, and that keeps things very interesting. Happy Friday Focus!