Yvonne’s Stuff

• YouTube - My Drive Thru - Santogold, Julian Casablancas, N.E.R.D produced by Pharrell
  Some 9,000-odd paper dolls were used to make this pretty nice music video.
  (tags: videos video style stopmotion music motion design animation)
• Chinese products, Chinese Clothing, Chinese Dress, Oriental Clothing
  (tags: shopping shop shoes kids japanese chinese oriental imported gifts fashion culture clothing)

• Finisterre // Technical Apparel for the Surfer
  Nice, sharp e-commerce site, I’m liking the way that they display their products list, and even the individual item page. Not so keen on their use of pop-ups for the different product photos on an item.
  (tags: clothing green shopping uk clothes technical surfing design ecommerce eco-friendly fashion accessories)

I’d just tagged this on del.icio.us and since it’s on a daily blog-posting thing, it’s just added another entry here. Anyway, no harm in reminding everyone again, eh?

• Caernarfon Festival Information Site - Caernarfon Festival
  Info site for Caernarfon Festival. Still a bit rough round the edges.
  (tags: Caernarfon, festival , Wales, Gwynedd, North Web4-u, events, activities, design, webdesign, Yvonne Tsang, Yvonne, yvonnetsang)

It’s that time of year again, rain, cold weather and the occasional spot of sunshine, yes, it must be summer here in Wales. That means that the Caernarfon Festival is upon us again, and with the square still in disarray, things are still very much up in the air.

Anyway, I created another flier for them this year, and although it doesn’t pack the same punch as last year’s flier, I really like it. It’s light and summery and maybe a little festive. I had originally thought of making something that was earthy and touchy feely, all stencil print on recycled paper, going with an eco-friendly theme. Once I got started, things just evolved into something else… that’s what I like about doing projects for non-profits, I charge only a nominal amount, and I get free rein to take the work in any direction I feel like.

In fact, I like this design so much that I decided to quickly knock out a Web4-U information site for them, I know I probably shouldn’t have done it though. There’s already an Official Caernarfon Festival website, so mine would be just an information site. I’m not going to be paid any extra but I figure that I could just add the site to my portfolio. I couldn’t afford to spend much of my time on it since I have real clients who need my attention, so it’s not 100%, but I’m happy enough with it.

Enough waffle, have a look at the Caernarfon Festival 2008 Information Site for yourself.

• Adobe Photoshop Express - Made You Look.
  Adobe’s own online version of photoshop. It doesn’t *quite* do everything that the proper photoshop can, but it’s still pretty nifty for doing your basic photo editing on the fly, or on the road.
  (tags: adobe apps computer design editing photoshop photography free online photo tools)
• <abbr-cadabra/>
  This page demonstrates legitimate use of the <abbr> (abbreviation) tag for all platforms.
  (tags: accessibility browser css hack ie html abbr xhtml webdesign webdev)
• 60+ Killer Open Courseware Collections for Web Designers - College Degree.com
  (tags: 3d articles computer content course webdesign education design tutorials courses elearning tutorial free)
• A List Apart: Articles: Graceful E-Mail Obfuscation
  (tags: accessibility ajax apache article blog bot browser email spam javascript webdesign howto php obfuscation webdev)
• Ariana Page Russell
  Artist with a skin condition that makes her skin become raised, red and swollen with the lightest scratch. Naturally, she exploits this and doodles patterns and stuff all over herself… as you do…
  (tags: art design inspiration people performance photography skin artists condition tattoo portfolio illustration)

…. this time with flash.

• SF art & design portal
  (tags: nice webdesign design flash inspiration portal web art)

• Why should I report paid links to Google?
  Interesting… so, you have to add a rel=nofollow to any advertising links.
  (tags: google reference rel nofollow advertising)
• The Saatchi Gallery - The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal, Sean Dixon
  HarperCollins, in collaboration with the Saatchi Gallery, are sponsoring a competition to design a book cover for the forthcoming The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal, Sean Dixon’s debut novel.
  (tags: Saatchi, graphic, design, competition , Sean Dixon, book, cover)

• Moxie Design Studios | Couture Blog Designers | Professional Blog Design & Small Business Website Design
  Cute web design company with work that has that kind of retro girly 50’s chi chi kitsch feel to it. Put a smile on my face anyway.
  (tags: design blog webdesign blogs inspiration portfolio retro ideas 50’s kitsch)