Nufabric
Nufabric is creative duo Nikolay & Dimo with some nice graphic work.

Saturday
Great work from London agency Saturday. Nice folio format too!

Pietari Posti
Awesome illustration from Pietari Posti - check out Giants!

Another Company
Some very lovely work from Joachim Baan in the Netherlands.
Refreshing portfolio layout too!

Artless
Artless is an art and design firm in Tokyo. Very slick detailed interactive.

Tea Time Studio
Cute little graphic design studio in Barcelona. With tips for brewing the perfect cup of tea!

Zoum Zoum
Zoum Zoum is a French photography blog with some great images.

Hula Hula
Graphic design and illustration from Mexico!

UFHO
Funky illustrations from UFHO. Their work is featured in Illusive 2!

Accept & Proceed
Nice selection of work from London based studio Accept & Proceed.

Hub
Nice new site for Oregon based studio Hub.

Ryan Young
Some nice work from graphic designer Ryan Young in the UK.

The wallpaper of this week is a very cool design called Compassion from Ginger Monkey Design, the home of Tom Lane & friends. They have just updated their portfolio with some amazing new works. It's definitely worth checking it out, and don't forget to use this exclusive wallpaper.

At Ginger Monkey I design, illustrate, write, talk, dance, swing and sparkle with passion and intent. On this site you can see and feel the care and attention I put into bringing ideas to life.

My outlook is colourful, open, thoughtful and honest. It's underpinned by drive and enthusiasm and peppered with an unquenchable thirst for the fruits of life and the challenges it can hold.

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iPhone Version

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For more information about Ginger Monkey Design visit their website at http://www.gingermonkeydesign.com/

The wallpaper of this week is a very cool design called Compassion from Ginger Monkey Design, the home of Tom Lane & friends. They have just updated their portfolio with some amazing new works. It's definitely worth checking it out, and don't forget to use this exclusive wallpaper.

At Ginger Monkey I design, illustrate, write, talk, dance, swing and sparkle with passion and intent. On this site you can see and feel the care and attention I put into bringing ideas to life.

My outlook is colourful, open, thoughtful and honest. It's underpinned by drive and enthusiasm and peppered with an unquenchable thirst for the fruits of life and the challenges it can hold.

Desktop Version

iPhone Version

Resolutions:

• 1920x1080px
• 1680x1050px
• 1440x900px
• 1280x1024px
• 1280x800px
• 1024x768px
• iPhone Version

For more information about Ginger Monkey Design visit their website at http://www.gingermonkeydesign.com/

Some great illustration from Edward McGowan.

Extremely funky, colourful work from Mopa - an illustration and graphic design studio in Brasília - Brazil.

25ah
www.25ah.se
Graphic design studio 25ah is Dana Bergquist & Jacqueline Jacoel from Stockholm

Studio Mono
www.studiomono.co.uk
Studio Mono is Leeds based graphic designer/art director Richard Bassett.

Enrique Badulescu
www.enriquebadulescu.com
Saturated, vibrant and animated images from photographer Enrique Badulescu

I’ve finished my little bout of timezone parkour to Nashville and San Francisco. I attended a conference in each place and enjoyed both in very different ways.

Voices That Matter had an eclectic line-up of speakers. Whereas other conferences are organized around a theme or a set of technologies, the only commonality at this conference, organized by New Riders, is that the speakers have all published books through New Riders. While this means that the conference doesn’t have a specific focus, it does offer a nice varied range of subjects. Talks ranged from the specifics of using CSS for colour, typography and layout right through to discussions of user-testing and social networking.

I enjoyed getting the nitty-gritty details of CSS fonts from Jason Cranford Teague. He and Richard are clearly kindred spirits. The revelation of the conference for me was hearing a great hands-on presentation from Zoe Mickley Gillenwater on liquid and elastic layouts. Okay, so I might be a bit biased but I think it’s great that this subject is getting coverage and Zoe is just the person to do it. She’s currently writing a book for New Riders on this neglected area of web design. It should be out by December. Pre-order it now.

For my part, I gave a half-day workshop on Bulletproof Ajax, which seemed to go well, and I reprised a talk I had given once before called Microformats: what are they and why do I care?

I missed a few talks because I was whisked away to be interviewed for a future video podcast. Under the very professional-looking lights and cameras, I participated in a one-on-chat and also a thoroughly enjoyable discussion with Christopher Schmitt and Steve Krug. I missed more talks because I wanted to get outside the hotel and explore Nashville a bit. The highlight of that exploration was getting a guided tour —thanks to Ari—around the historic Hatch Show Print where they have been making letterpress posters for musicians for over a century; a great place to soak up some design inspiration.

My ulterior motive for escaping from the conference hotel was to seek out a mandolin for myself. I went to the Gibson outlet store at the Opry Mills shopping mall on the outskirts of town but even the cheapest mandolin there was still beyond my price range. They sure were a pleasure to play, though. Fortunately for me, I stumbled across a flea market in the same mall where I happened upon a cheap second-hand epiphone. It’s not brilliant but it’s suitable for my purposes; a decent little instrument that I can take travelling with me. I’ve got a suitable travel bag to go with it. It has the shape of a tennis racket case but all the pockets of a laptop bag. I may even try to pass myself off as some kind of freakish sporty geek hybrid.

All in all, I think I managed to get a good look around Nashville and get plenty out of the conference too. I was only there for a few days before it was time for me to head on to San Francisco for Supernova 2008. That was a different kettle of thought-leading fish.

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Just to add to the many reasons we’re happy to see WebMonkey back in action, comes this great article on the MySpace redesign. Michael Calore talked to Ryan Freitas about some of the principles behind the redesign. Check it out.

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Today is Abduzeedo's Coca-Cola Day =) so this link wont miss. "The Coca-Cola Hapiness Factory" is a short animation ad for Coca Cola and really really amazing. It belongs to my "Top 10 movies" ever.

click on the picture to see the shortmovie

Today is Abduzeedo's Coca-Cola Day =) so this link wont miss. "The Coca-Cola Hapiness Factory" is a short animation ad for Coca Cola and really really amazing. It belongs to my "Top 10 movies" ever.

click on the picture to see the shortmovie