The History Of Skate Shoes

Head over to Sneaker Freaker for their feature on the history of skate shoes. There are some awesome and perhaps inspiring shots of old school skate shoes.

Unconventional Calendars

I recently viewed and read this post at smashing magazine showcasing some interesting and creative calendar designs and concepts. I noticed that they didn’t have a few of my personal favorites in the list, so I thought I would share.

This Year by ThisStudio.co.uk

This poster/calendar is available for purchase at JustGoneSix.

Bubble Calendar

The Bubble Calendar is a massive poster calendar with a bubble to pop for every day of the year. It is type set in Helvetica Neue the Weekends are bolded for quick refereneces; It also has all majoy US holidays marked.

Chrono Shredder by Susanna Hertrich

The Chrono_Shredder is a device that makes past time tangible. It is a hybrid between calendar, clock and waste producing automaton. It has no on/off-button, thus it is unstoppable, just like time. It features the 365 days of the year represented on a paper-roll. The paper-roll is led through a hacked paper-shredder, which is programmed to use exactly 24 hours to shred one “day”.

The Stendig Calendar Designed in 1966 by Massimo Vignelli

“Handmade” by HD Schellnack

An incredibly minimal approach to dates. I absolutely love this one.

If you’d like to share any of your personal favorites that aren’t listed, link them up in the comments.

Lock, Stock, & Typography

Lines from the movie ” Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ” put into a typographical animation. Very cool.

By London-based Ben White.

Deskography

Deskography is a simple little service where you upload photos of your desk. Why? Well, the idea is that it’s fun to invite the world to see where you work.

Multicolr By Idee Inc

Multicolr is a tool from the labs of Idee Inc, a company that develops advanced visual search software. Multicolr allows you to search through 10 million Creative Commons images on Flickr by color using the company’s visual similarity technology.

Designers’ Recovery Magazine

Flogged Magazine is a PDF magazine that releases a monthly issue of great design projects that were rejected by clients. For all of us that have done or are doing the design gig, we understand all to well what that’s like. It really sucks to be really excited about a project, and come up with something great for it, only to have it rejected without educated reason. Finally the situation can now be celebrated, thanks to Flogged Magazine.

Cssey - Another Design Gallery

I was recently pondering what it would take to design a CSS gallery, when my favorite premium WordPress theme designer Elegant WordPress Themes released a theme that did most of the work for me. (Yes, that’s an affiliate link, but just so you know, I’m also a very happy customer.) I did a little CSS work so the site looks unique, but if you’re looking for quality premium themes for a very reasonable price, definitely check out Elegant WPT. The best part is that it is a themes “club”, so for only $19.95/yr, you get access to the entire theme archive, as well as access to the new, and very frequent theme releases.

Cssey |  Elegant WPT

Minimal Sites

MinimalSites.com is a CSS gallery featuring only minimalistic and simple website design. If you’re a designer, and love minimal designs and simplicity, this is definitely a site to check on regularly or to add to the feed reader.