Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
Archived entries for January, 2009
“Me moaning about shoddy UI inconsistencies and mistakes in Adobe products and how they get shitter with every release and especially since they took on Macromedia’s idiotic philosophies.” Via @mike9r.
Born in the U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen
What another album could serve as the soundtrack for today’s Obama inauguration day? A true classic of the 80’s.
Vivien points to 32 websites that use the gorgeous Georgia for its typesetting. Via I love Typography, which BTW, did a great realign recently.
Recently stumbled upon Web Design Resources I Use, an outstanding collection of day-to-day tools. Via @gnz.
Smashing Magazine has a good recopilation of the Web Design Trends for 2009. I especially like the emboss/letterpress effect; that if applied properly, can produce sites as beautiful as this one.
Introducing Modern Clix: A free Wordpress theme
It took me almost a week to simplify this design (see the previous discussion) and test it: I never thought that releasing a Wordpress theme could be so difficult and time consuming.
Modern Clix, inspired by Charly García’s “Clics Modernos”
So here it is. Modern Clix is a minimal blog theme inspired in the Swiss Style of Design: It sports the trusty Arial/Helvetica pair, an ingenous grid, a generous use of whitespace for better readability and a strong focus in typography.
Download it here (146 KB). Or view a live demo in a real Wordpress installation.
Creating this theme was certainly stressful, but most of all it was real fun, so I’m planning to release more Wordpress themes in the near future. Keeping a balance between aside projects and the daily work is a goal for me in this 2009!
Thanks to Marina Torchiari for all the hard work on beta testing this theme!
