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Cute tape from cutetape.com
Recently CuteTape on Instagram held a giveaway contest and I won I won! As a winner I got to choose three Washi Tapes from the store. The tapes arrived all the way here faster than I expected and they are really cute. Which ones did I choose then? As you can see the tapes I got look exactly as pictured in the web store. If you are in US cutetape.com offers free delivery. The store is filled with other stuff than tapes too, such as stamps, party favor bags and boxes, stickers, tags, paper straws and other paper supplies. All very cute, of course.
The monotonic web
There's a new version of Twitter. Some say it looks great, some say it looks like crap. I say it looks like every other site. Currently there are a couple of big trends for websites. There's flat design and there's the whole idea of "visual web". Basic colours, clear blocks, simplifying to a fault and lots of big images, which are preferably photos. It looked good for a while, until it spread everywhere. Now the web is very monotone. Most sites look the same and it's hard to make a distinction between them. The fancy and techy ones go with the approach Twitter has taken. Beauty related web...
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
ATTENTION! The following contains spoilers and details about the movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014). If you haven't seen it yet and don't want to know what's going on beforehand, please refrain from reading this. You've been warned. I'm not a comic book nerd. Not even a little bit. Comics weren't a big thing in my home when I grew up and I didn't get into them like for instance the man I live with. I have read some here and there, but mostly I'm just clueless about this stuff. Thus I watch these "comic book movies" as any other movie, without having a real comparison to the l...
A thousand words is worth more than a picture
Today I saw this nice and pretty about page of a blogger and a designer. It was a fully laid out with of lots of photos, graphics and text blocks of sweet fonts. The whole thing was one big image. Images are filling the web. While lots of people are talking about the revolution of a video, images currently rule. In addition to basic photos and images websites are filled with infographics, selfies, cat photos, how-to-photos and photo collages to mention some. Those of us who know the power of Pinterest know we must add at least one photo per blog post to be shared there. Even the previou...
Free images for your blog or design projects
If it's on web it's free. Many people seem to think that anything they find on web is free for them to use. There's lots of legally free stuff out there, but most of all there are lots of things you can use to get yourself into all sorts of trouble. For instance photos and other images you don't have a permission to use. Fortunately alongside the photos you took yourself and images you created there are free options to use. Unfortunately it's a bit of a Wild West. Some of the licenses are vague or too restrictive. There are people who upload photos online under Creative Commons licenses with...
Hot Font #17: Roboto, Roboto Condensed and Roboto Slab
It's time to present you another Hot Font. This is called Roboto and there are actually 3 different families, the normal one, more narrow Roboto Condensed and softer (slab) serif Roboto Slab. Roboto is a diverse font. It works beautifully in longer texts but makes a great title or for instance poster font as well. The Roboto families come with several different styles. My fave of these three is the slab serif version. Created by Christian Robertson, Roboto, Roboto Condensed and Roboto Slab are published under Apache License, Version 2.0 and are free. Roboto on Font Squirrel and Go...
So, did you actually read it?
Once again it happened: Someone read my last blog post and got upset about it. Well, read and read. They kind of read half of it, made assumptions and didn't give the text a chance to tell the full story. I received an angry and awful email. Most people online don't bother to read articles through. They bounce around, check the headlines and skim the texts. It appears that most share links without really reading the content they are sharing. This of course doesn't always lead to the situation I described above. I often see comments on blog posts and web articles that have very little o...
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