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Design Something Every Day – Day 10

Right, we have a problem. It’s day 10 and I am all out of ideas and inspiration and creativity. Today I have even resorted to outright theivery for the inspiration behind today’s bit of work. I started off this design session with no idea what to do, so headed off to Twitter to check out what people had been posting recently to #daily365. One of the posts pointed toward Alma Hoffman’s blog. Alma seems to be having a similar problem so made a simple clean image outlining the problem – check it out.

I thought that was a pretty good interpretation of how I was feeling today, so decided I would do something similar.

Except then I started having fun and decided that what I’d got might look ok as a desktop background. If you like the two images below there a number of links underneath to various desktop sized version for you to download. Read more …

Design Something Every Day – Day 9

The (pretty tenuous link to) t-shirt designs series is over! Today we start on something new. I’ll be honest, I don’t know what that something is yet. It might not be anything. It might be something. I’m not sure yet. All I know is I drew some circles.

Original AI file here if you want it: circles.ai

Concentric Circles with focus

Bookmarking Toolbar v1.0

A short while ago I wrote my own Javascript social bookmarking toolbar (like you see on the BBC news pages – current random example). It is pretty much a total rip off of the AddThis bookmarking system, with one pretty important exception. You host the scripts and images on your own site. On the plus side it means you can do whatever you want with the script, but on the downside it means that updates are not automatic. Once you install it that is it, unless you come back here and download an updated version. Maybe one day I’ll offer it as a hosted solution. But for now you guys get scripts and nothing else!

I like how it works, so I thought I would make it available to the masses.

You’ve got two options:

  1. Download a default example version here and then play about with the scripts, or;
  2. Customise your script below and copy and paste the code onto your pages as instructed.

Up to you!
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