Creative Website Design and Marketing
The annual Webby awards reward outstanding work in the web industry. Most of the candidates for the awards are worthy of a mention, however we are just focusing on those who walked away with gongs on the night. The catagories range far and wide, so have a look and a click and see what you think are the best sites. Add a comment below if you have an opinion, or if you have any favourite sites from the last 12 months.
Last year myself and Steve attended Barcamp Blackpool, an “unconference” that encourages the attendees themselves to do a talk. Last year topics ranged from “Slate My Website” to An “Introduction to British Sign Language.” The event is held at Blackpool Pleasure Beach and returns again in 2010. At the time of writing all the tickets have been allocated, which is a big step up from last years attendance, so this years event is shaping up to be bigger and better. Have a look at our blog from last years event to see what we got up to, and also check out the Barcamp website for more details on this years event.
Along with myself and Steve from design, developers Steve and Dave will be attending, if you spot us, be sure to say hello and stay tuned for a review of the event on this blog!
With the big kick off just one week away, world cup fever is building in the Jelly office, I thought I’d take a quick look back at some classic poster designs from previous world cups.
Swiss design is often regarded as the cornerstone of everything we now think of as modern graphic design, so it’s interesting to see the almost Cubist artistic style shown on their poster for the 1954 World Cup. Probably closer in relation to Swiss design itself is the iconic poster from Argentina 1978, which uses simple type and halftone imagery to create a standout design.
Inspired by the country’s pioneering Cubist art movement, Spain gave us this poster for their World Cup in 1982. This seems a world away from the “stars” design from Germany at the last world cup. This poster is designed to represent the stars that are the footballers at the event, though using a large football as part of the image is, understandably, nothing new.
This poster from the 1970 world cup in Mexico is also highly regarded for its simple imagery and use of bold typography, at the time this was seen as an extremely modern design. Lastly let’s take a look at the current poster for this years tournament in South Africa. With simple, bold block colours to celebrate the first “rainbow” world cup, will this be seen as a classic poster in years to come?
What’s your favourite world cup poster?