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Dama Wedding

Dario Carella — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:48:50 +0000

Danila Minetto asked us (me and Andrea) to create a showcase website for Dama Wedding, her wedding planner agency. The layout was asked to be in fullscreen with great photos on the background.

Design inspiration

Dario Carella — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:39:13 +0000

The first thing to do for having your mind “prepared” to the design (such as logo, web, app, ads etc.), it’s to get constantly, every day, some points of inspiration. It’s the base, infact, when you have to work on a new design, if you don’t have a great idea ready, the way to get out of the maze is to find inspiration. This works like a brainstorming that help you to make the right idea.

Here I’ll suggest you some way to get inspired.

Be tuned

Use a RSS client (I get on well with Google Reader) and subscribe to the feed of each designers you like. So consulting the client every day you will be updated on every new work of your favorites. In additions I’ll suggest to subscribe to the feed of Speckyboy magazine. Here there are some interesting articles and once a week there is an article dedicated to inspiration, with some gorgeous websites founded on the web.

Play basketball

Why basketball and not football? because basketball is the way of Dribbble (don’t forgot the triple b). Dribbble is the most famous community of designers, here you can find only shots (400×300 pixels) of elite designers. So is a good practice to take a tour each time you have nothing to do. As explained previously to be part of these gang of designers you need an invite.

Make a camping trip

If the basketball it’s not enough for you, try Forrst. As Dribbble here you can find some interesting shots, but because entering in this community is easier, the quality it’s not ever so gorgeous. To be part of this community infact you need three vote from other members.

Check your favorites

Another designers community is the younger Favwork. To join this you need… nothing. So as you can expect the shots (600×400 pixels) that you can find here are of every quality.

And finally, follow me

Yes follow me!

Fabriano dot grid book

Dario Carella — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:07:10 +0000

Few days ago, when I was looking for a sketchbook to draw logos and types in a step before adopting digital tools, I bumped into the Dot Grid Book by Behance, a book of 50 A4 pages with dot matrix. This book price on the official store is $15 without shipping costs, so for an Italian as me it costs about $30. For this price I prefer to use some printer paper honestly.

I’ve continued my search until I’ve found in a shop a Fabriano dot grid sketchbook unexpectedly!

This book is part of a new line 100% green by Fabriano, called EcoQua. This sketchbook has 90 A4 pages with dot matrix with 85 gsm 100% green paper. The only relevant cons are that the color of pages is not white, but (like any 100% green paper sheets) is a very clear ivory and that the binding is without double spiral (is glued on the side).

All of this for only 3€ (less than $4). It’s very cheap, are you agree?

Loremizr

Dario Carella — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:21:04 +0000

Loremizr is a generator of dummy text with three different dictionary, the classical lorem ipsum, a magical version named abra cadabra, and finally a nerd one called nerdoro.

The output could be customized by users by a little options panel. Moreover is possible to suggest words for each one of these dictionary in a very simple way.

Waiting for a dribbble invite…

Dario Carella — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:00:17 +0000

Today I finally set up a page dedicated to those who want to see the shots that I could post on Dribbble community, but especially those who want to invite me to join.

For those who don’t know Dribbble

It’s a community where a group of elite designers publish 400×300 pixels “shots” of their current works. I say elite designers because, only who receive a dribbble invite can publish their own “shots”.

Shot example

For those who have an invite

Have you a dribbble invite? Oh please jump here!

link to dribbble.splact.com