Of course, there are inspirational design galleries online. But I’ve found that when I am designing for one medium, it is more useful to look at inspiration in other mediums. For example, if one is designing a website, it would be more beneficial to go outside for a walk, or go to an art museum, than to look at a website design gallery.
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It’s one thing for us to say that we make beautiful websites that our clients fall in love with, but it’s another thing entirely when we get to hear other people say it. Of course, it’s not always so easy to pass that along to our readers – however, today we have had the honor of receiving a fantastic design critique from wecritiquedesigns.com.

We’ve been listed on several design galleries (such as thebestdesigns.com and cssheaven.com) and even favorited on many, featured on some, and chosen as an “editor’s pick” on w3csites.com (a site that only accepts your design if all of your files validate completely). We were even featured in an article about lighting effects on Smashing Magazine, which was pretty exciting in and of itself.

But none have brought me the sheer joy that this review brought me. It is expertly written and just to see that people really do “get” the design and why it is the way it is, well, that just makes all of the hard work worth it.

The Camp Creative Group are a design agency who live by the moto “Fall in love with your design” and it is their very own website that I have fallen in love with.

To read the review in it’s entirety, visit wecritiquedesigns.com.

This is the second in my Artistic Music Video Series. The first focused on videos using primarily Stop Motion Animation. This article will focus more on videos which are artistically and creatively directed. I tried to choose videos that took a unique approach to the video and the presentation of material and, of course, that are an inspiration to watch. Read the rest of this entry »

Film and video directors are designers also, and lots of inspiration can be found in music videos, where artists get to express themselves as well as the songs. Music videos present a very unique medium, since there are not many times when several artistic elements can come together. My intent with this series is to showcase what I believe are inspirational examples of artistic music videos. This first post is focusing on videos that include stop motion animation. Read the rest of this entry »