Skewster » Design http://skewster.com Me. Microblogging. And macroblogging too. Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:34:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Metallica logo has changed a lot ove… http://skewster.com/530 http://skewster.com/530#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:21:21 +0000 Gerrybot http://skewster.com/530

The Metallica logo has changed a lot over the years – here’s a post I wrote a while back showing how it altered with each successive album. And if you’re a big fan of Metallica, why not contibute to the Metallica wiki page on Unreality Shout?

]]> http://skewster.com/530/feed 0 Amazing folding UK plug design http://skewster.com/520 http://skewster.com/520#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:34:24 +0000 Gerrybot http://skewster.com/?p=520 Yes yes yes! As someone who lives in the UK, this is quite possibly one of the smartest redesigns of the UK plug I’ve ever seen – it’s hyper-compact and even acts as a plug-board to connect additional plugs to. And is that a pair of USB chargers I see attached to the side?

(via Gajitz)

]]> http://skewster.com/520/feed 0 Hot Cyborg Chicks Rule! http://skewster.com/463 http://skewster.com/463#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:13:03 +0000 Gerrybot http://skewster.com/463 I came across this pic today – OK, she’s probably not technically a cyborg you purists. The artist is Heri Irawan – check out his portfolio here.

Hot Cyborg

]]> http://skewster.com/463/feed 0 Death of the Blog Post by Smashing Magazine http://skewster.com/27 http://skewster.com/27#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:27:57 +0000 Gerrybot http://skewster.com/27 Smashing Magazine posit that the fixed-format blog post may give way to a more elaborate blogzine style of posting in which each post has its own unique stylesheet, making it look more like a magazine in concept than a blog.

I first saw this in effect when Jason Santa Maria redesigned his blog a while back. It’s an amazing concept, and visually stunning. The problem for 99% of web users, bloggers and whatnots is that they just don’t have the design skills to make something like this happen. Plus, for the majority of people, having to think so hard about the design of an article would be a disincentive to write at all!

For those designers who have the time, creativity and ability to make the blogzine format work, there may be a new niche in it for them to own.

]]> http://skewster.com/27/feed 0 Logo design tutorials – 101 of them, wor… http://skewster.com/23 http://skewster.com/23#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:20:35 +0000 Gerrybot http://skewster.com/23 Logo design tutorials – 101 of them, worth a look for both inspiration and Photoshop techniques needed to create an eye-catching logo.

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