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Russian revolution

Richard — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:48:56 +0000

This is amazing. I won’t spoil it for you, click the picture above and have a go.

Kaleidoscopic site

Richard — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:51:44 +0000

This looks like an oldie (it’s dated 2003) but I’ve only just found it. Turn your site (or anyone else’s for that matter) into a kaleidoscope by entering the URL and sitting back to watch all the JPG images from that page mashed up for your viewing pleasure.

Here are some from this very site…

From Project Euh, there’s other nonsense on there too…

Power up

Richard — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:58:00 +0000

Welcome to Super Obama World everyone!

Out of memory

Richard — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:22:40 +0000

…have you tried thinking back to what you were doing when you last had it?

Word Clock

Richard — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:02:33 +0000

I wrote a little while ago about nine nicer ways to tell the time as I had noticed a few clever ways of your screensaver being used to display the time. Well I wish I had known then about Simon Heys’s Word Clock, which shows the time typographically and gives quite a bit of control over the display of the typography.

There’s also a Rotary Word Clock which is just as lovely, if not more so. Have a closer look by clicking the images above, then get over to the site and download the screensavers for PC and Mac. You can even get an iPhone version if you’ve been brave enough to jailbreak your device.

His portfolio is rather nice too…

A man’s browser window…

Richard — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:48:21 +0000

I usually hate sites which change the size of my browser window when I visit them, or worse still, take over the whole screen without so much as asking. Rather than address the issue of various sized screens by an intelligent site design, the worst offenders enforce their own decisions on visitors and muck up the way they have their browser set. All too often it is us designers who are the culprits as we seem to love an opulent 100% Flash fullscreen extravaganza.

That said, here’s a wonderful use of the technique, it’s so imaginatively done, I didn’t mind at all…

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Christmas Frost*

Richard — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:57:13 +0000

Frost Design has put together a little Christmas cheer on their website, a specially created page where visitors can make a festive image from typographic letters and symbols drawn from the Frost identity.

There are some lovely examples, have a look at other efforts and have a go yourself, as the page is sure to come down in the new year.

Not sure why I put the storm trooper in, not particularly Christmassy, but too good to leave out…