TechNewsWorld reported Friday that ICANN has approved new Internet address policies. Reporter Renay San Miguel wrote in his article that ICANN will give anyone willing to pay for it the rights to a branded domain. No more limitations to .com or .net - now brand giants willing to pay a hefty sum can get themselves [...]
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Posted by Amelia Woodbridge on June 30th, 2008 — in News, Web Sites
Found this picture on a site called Chicken Crap and I think it pretty much says it all.
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Posted by Amelia Woodbridge on June 27th, 2008 — in Outdoor
I came across Wordle today - and I couldn’t resist trying it out. Wordle is a fun application for generating “word clouds” from the text that you type in. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color [...]
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Posted by Amelia Woodbridge on June 26th, 2008 — in Just for Fun
Wow. I landed on this website by Wieden + Kennedy and was just really intrigued by the everything about it. The fluidity of the site is amazing and the manner in which the architecture functions to create the many different associations of the work, the client, the people - very interesting. The agency did a [...]
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Posted by Amelia Woodbridge on June 15th, 2008 — in Advertising Well Done, Amelia's Hall of Fame, Web Sites
The proliferation of blogs and their style is really influencing website design to be a little more fluid and freeform. Spend some time browsing around and you’ll see what’s popular now: pencil sketches, handwritten fonts, designs that utilize the “white space” or have no border, graphics such as paper clips, sticky notes and embellishments (sort [...]
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Posted by Amelia Woodbridge on June 14th, 2008 — in Amelia's Hall of Fame, Design, Web Sites
Came across a website today that is quite a resource for anyone working in or using color - Colourlovers. The members of the community have posted new colors, color palettes and patterns. You can search trends, top picks, and even color in different industries such as the movies, fashion or say…skateboarding! As someone that [...]
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Posted by Amelia Woodbridge on June 14th, 2008 — in Color, Design
Spent some time on Ads of the World and found these gems. A nice job by 3 Advertising of Albuquerque for a media outlet hosting a fundraiser called The Corporate Roll. I love the style, the vintage clothes, the harsh lighting, and the headlines are perfect:
John in Human Resources is going to send you to [...]
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Posted by Amelia Woodbridge on June 4th, 2008 — in Advertising Well Done
