What’s mundane any­way? A tab­letop can look like the fol­low­ing pic­ture — mine does, although I always thought it to be mundane and nor­mal. But with a cam­era in my hands I got a view of some­thing quite extraordinary.

What does your pep­per mill look like?

Joen, my Danish friend who runs a journal and graph­ical instal­ment out­let, has just launched the new design of his site. (You heard it here first kids!) And what a design it is! As I said on Joen’s site itself:

May I be the first to con­grat­u­late you on Pangea! It really does take good care of your sites whole eco­sys­tem, while being so clear and effect­ive it pos­it­ively hurts! It’s nice to have a use­ful homepage, the instal­ment box in par­tic­u­lar is a great fea­ture. For the rest, great align­ing, fant­astic white space — not that we expect any­thing less of course :)

The atten­tion to detail is pretty darn good too. Even the X to close the comment-formatting-box has a high­light state! And to my sur­prise the wee bite you’ve taken out of the top-right of the boxes break up the boxxy­ness enough — even though they’re really small bites.

Solid design, and I can’t wait what col­ours you’ll inject with one of your (semi)-monthly redesigns.

~ source: Noscope Pangea

Sobre Negro is a beau­ti­ful draw­ing by Monica Calvo, an illus­trator from Madrid. It’s a beau­ti­ful piece, part of a series of “exper­i­ments on black”. You’ve just got to love the sub­tlety of her draw­ing. The col­ours, forms and com­pos­i­tion really make her work over­flow with emo­tion. It’s safe to say that I really like it.

Splashy Fish is the site of Dat Nguyen. In his own words, It’s where his thoughts go to play — usu­ally to end up in the form of blobby sketches.

And what mar­vel­lous sketches he pro­duces! Take this one, “know­ing when to stop” (that might just be the name of the post and not of the piece itself, but there’s no other name mentioned):

This was a 4’x5’ acrylic piece in mid-production — I try to doc­u­ment my work through its phases to study the thought pro­cess at a later time. It turns out that this was best it got before it went into its irre­vers­ible dir­ec­tion. Now it just stands to be ges­soed over. It’s dif­fi­cult to will a paint­ing into the optimal dir­ec­tion because many strokes open new pos­sib­il­it­ies.
~ source: Splashy Fish

Now this piece might not be everyone’s taste, but I like it. It’s awesome.

I’ve finally got­ten round to tweak­ing this site into shape. I’d already ditched the ver­tical bars, but the align­ment still wasn’t right and the code was get­ting mud­dier and mur­kier. Seeing as how the spring 2006 CSS Reboot was just around the corner, I had a dead­line: 1st of May 2006.

Notable changes are the gen­eral shifts in align­ment (not just for improved flow, but also to give me more room for in-line images), the back­ground and nav­ig­a­tion bar col­our shift (both are now slightly lighter) and boxes around the com­ments (just like noscope — I plead guilty!). I’ll have to redesign the com­ments once I enable gravatars too (instead of just favicons), but this will have to do for now.

New addi­tions are Cameron Moll’s icon to my inspir­a­tions list (not that he’s a recent find, but up till now I didn’t have a good icon to work from), “latest com­ments” in the side­bar and a (slightly dif­fer­ent one from on the main page) side­bar for the single-post pages (just click a title to get to them).

Funnily enough, the thing I’m most proud of is mov­ing the previous/next page nav­ig­a­tion on single-post pages to the side­bar. It’s a very little change, but I really feel they work a lot bet­ter there.

What do you think? (Oh and don’t for­get to vote for me on the CSS Reboot site!)

The suc­ces of Jeremy Keith’s new line of per­fumes ‘Adactio’ has been phe­nom­enal. It is thus with great pride that we intro­duce ‘AJAX’ a per­fume pour femme.

For Adacio pour homme, high-street bill­boards were of course the logical choice:

Other agen­cies have sup­por­ted us too — the viral Indiana Jones ad is my fav however.

ANGULOS
(Originally uploaded by Monardes-Mena.)

I found this beau­ti­ful photo on flickr a while ago. It depicts a build­ing from a great angle dur­ing a won­der­ful sun­set. Called ‘Angulos’ it depicts the La Serena in Chile.

Some more exquis­ite and inspir­a­tional buildings:

Walkway near Covent garden

Seattle Public Library