21 Mar 2010, Posted by Chris Kaufman in Design, Featured, 1 Comments

Showcase of Academic and Higher Education Websites

College and university websites have a lot of roles to fill. They need to provide information for prospective students (both new and transfer), parents of students and prospective students, current students, and alumni. In many cases, they’re also the gateway to the school’s intranet and the public face for both academics and athletics. They often need to include reams of information in a way that makes everything easy to find. It’s a huge challenge.

03 Feb 2010, Posted by Chris Kaufman in Featured, web design, 5 Comments

50 Inspiring Portfolio Designs

We are always looking for inspiration, specially when it comes to web design. We just can’t get tired of browsing around websites to check out layouts, colors, typography, styles and everything else that a cool site can offer. With this selection, I will show you 50 inspiring portfolio designs. Some of them you probably already know, others are new – some are minimalist, others are colorful and full of elements. The idea here is to show different ways to show your work online.

27 Jan 2010, Posted by Chris Kaufman in Featured, 0 Comments

35 Beautiful E-Commerce Websites

Despite any financial recession and economic stress, online purchasing continues to grow. Expansion of the market and evolving technology that simplifies our daily lives help to set the pace of e-commerce design. Customers want the shopping process to be quick and easy, and merchants want to increase sales by making their stores attractive and popular. Thus, e-commerce design tends to combine a look and usability that is at once unique and eye-catching.

31 Dec 2009, Posted by Chris Kaufman in Featured, 8 Comments

The Beautiful Art of Japanese Web Design

If I had to looking for some attributes to describe the japanese style in web design I’d choose: essential, minimalist, with an intensive use of Adobe Flash, animations and music in background (mainly solo piano, inspired by Ryuichi Sakamoto’s compositions), traditional and modern at the same time. Here is a collection of some beautiful examples of japanese websites for your daily inspiration.

11 Nov 2009, Posted by Chris Kaufman in Design, Featured, 7 Comments

50 Inspirational and Fresh Minimally Designed Web Sites

The most important factor for minimal to work well, as it should be with all design styles (but, not always the case), is the content. Without good writing or a strong portfolio, the style has no impact and the web design looks cheap. And that is the key to minimal, in the hands of a skilled web designer, they know that the site design has to accentuate the content, and the content, in return, accentuates the web design.

02 Aug 2009, Posted by Chris Kaufman in Featured, Personal Projects, 4 Comments

Letterpress Business Cards

Something I’d been wanting for a long time was letterpress business cards. I love the tactile nature of them – the deep impression in soft cotton paper certainly stands out from ordinary business cards, and aside from being just a business card, I think they can serve as a nice little piece of miniature art. Papered Together in Minneapolis recently had a sale on letterpress cards, (the cost of the cards was the high temperature of the day) so I took advantage of the promo and got my first set of letterpress cards.

05 Jul 2009, Posted by Chris Kaufman in Featured, 1 Comments

Excellent Business Card Designs

Showcasing some very cool business cards and different approaches compared to the traditional ways of the business cards. I have been building up this posts for quite some time now…here is a Flickr group that has some great business cards.

12 Jun 2009, Posted by Chris Kaufman in Featured, 2 Comments

60 Stunning Typography Inspirations

Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading, tracking and kerning.

We have selected 60 Most Stunning Typography Inspiration of All Time. Please feel free to suggest your favorite ones as well. Enjoy.

22 Apr 2009, Posted by Chris Kaufman in Featured, 4 Comments

100 Attributes of Entrepreneurs

Here are one hundred characteristics and attributes of people who start companies—some born of experience, education or birth. Most can be learned by study and practice.