graphic design, art, typography and architecture

Creative Fix will be a regular round-up feature. I’ll be listing and commenting on my favourite blog posts, stumbles and bookmarks. Here’s my Creative Fix for June 2007:

Website that caught my eye:

This is a beautifully designed Flash web site; this kind of thing has been done a lot before, but this one is particularly worthy of mention:

Architecture:

LandMark Houses, an Architectural Housing Project set in the Cotswolds (UK).

A complete showpiece village of landmark new homes by some of the best architects in Britain, and the world, is about to be built in the Cotswolds.–The Sunday Times

Typography:

15 Years of Type for Independent Minds Travelling Exhibition. There are no Exhibitions on right now, but you can follow the Place-name links at the bottom of the page for some typographic inspiration. Next venue is Stockholm in the autumn, and then Belfast in the new year.

Typography and Web Advertising, a great post on Digital Web Magazine.

So why is so much advertising, including web advertising, so skippable? Partly, I think, because advertisers make the mistake of thinking of the audience as viewers rather than targets.

On a similar theme, see Marc Rapp’s piece on Banner Ad’s.

Illustration:

Some wonderful Drawings, Illustrations and Collages from Raquel Aparicio:

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Web Development:

jQuery used to be a little thin on documentation. They’re making up for it, and have some great examples of jQuery in action. jQuery is now my favourite JavaScript Library. There are some great tutorials demonstrating just how easy jQuery is to implement.

Other:

Photoshop Tutorial. Step by step instructions on how to easily improve any photo (adjusting the white and black points and more); you’ll be surprised at how this will improve the colour and clarity of your photos.

What have I been doing?

Most of my time right now is devoted to building a Czech-language web site, working on a poster and catalogue layout for a Clothing Company; building a web site and blog for a Japanese Design Agency; working on a proposal for an Intranet CMS; and, in between times (for fun(?)), writing some JavaScript to enable users to select their own font family on the fly and have it persist with Cookies…is that really fun? And, when I have time, I’d like to do a kind of Google Notes Mashup whereby my Google notes are displayed on a page within the blog (a Google Notes Feed, if you like). However, that will have to wait; lots of work to finish first. I’ve recently joined FaceBook, so be sure to add me. You can import your blog feeds into FaceBook Notes–another way to promote your content, and ensure that no-one misses out.

Let me know what you think. Feel free to comment on your own June favourites too. Oh–I almost forgot to mention–thanks to Vivien at InspirationBit for the Creative Fix nomenclature.