raineer Hosted on Zooomr

Zooomr.com is photosharing for grown-ups. You won’t find a lot of Help or FAQ’s on this “beta” site, but you will find a superior way to upload, organize and share your photos online. Just think flickr but better, and free.

5 things I like about Zooomr:

Zooomr is easy.
While still in “beta”, Zooomr’s interface is well organized, fast and easy to use. Sign-up is a cinch, and thanks to jUploadr getting your photos online is equally simple. I’m hoping to see an update to the interface however, when it finds its way out of beta.

Zooomr is cool.
At the ripe old age of 18, creator Kristopher Tate is giving photosharing giant flickr.com, a run for its money. I got to meet Kris, and Evangelist & CEO Thomas Hawk, in Seattle… ...(more)

Client: “We really like Apple’s branding. Can you do something like that for us?”
Designer: “I love what Apple is doing too, but your company’s a Mortuary?”

Often when I’m hired to do identity design, I’m given direction like, “Make it look Web 2.0-ish” or “Can you make it look really clean?” or “We really like red. All of our competitors are using it.”

Without some kind of roadmap, the conversation inevitably revolves around personal preferences regarding color, typography and what competitors are doing.

An Identity Spectrum gives everyone involved a common vocabulary for talking about how an identity should feel. What attributes should it convey and to what degree? It attempts to take something very subjective (an identity), and in some small way, measure it. It doesn’t serve as a Bible, but rather a starting point. A point of origin better than just our personal preferences.

Together, we plot 5 or 6 different points between different pairs of attributes on a chart. This helps us to quantify abstract… ...(more)

I’m not what you’d call a Dashboard poweruser. It’s a great app, but until now I just haven’t come across that many really useful widgets.

Sundial is a sweet one developed by the prodigious minds over at Clearwired. As with any great widget, it does one thing, and it does it really well.  Sundial allows you to log time directly to your Basecamp Plus or Premium account.

We’ve upgraded our MethodArts Basecamp account to Plus (from Free) to take advantage of time tracking (as well as file sharing, and a few other features that I think are really going to make Basecamp worth the investment ).

A few notes on using Sundial 1.0:
If you use multiple Basecamp accounts, simply create a separate instance of Sundial from the Dashboard widget bar.

You can also jump directly to your Basecamp account from the widget… ...(more)

Letterhead Font’s collection of retro designer fonts are addictive. Purchasing is fast and easy, and they provide a gallery of real world samples, tips and tricks, and even a “type tester” for previewing your headline or logo. My personal favorite is Royal Script (Revised) as seen in “creative juice” and on Bixby’s Original Peanut Brittle. Just had to pass along these great fonts.

Conversely, check out the valiant effort to permanently extinguish the use of Comic Sans over at BanComicSans.com

Favorite excerpt from the site:
“...You might be interested to know that I am a college instructor in history. As I was grading essays today on the rather somber subject of slavery and the mental anguish it can cause, I came across an essay written entirely in Comic Sans! Ridiculously inappropriate to say the least. I instantly wanted to toss the essay in my paper shredder, but couldn’t get… ...(more)