Pugly Pixel Blog

Fab Font: Blu

Katrina — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:57:57 +0000

I got a comment from a reader asking for the name of the font I use for the banner on my personal blog, EDE. The font is called Blu, a multi-layered font that looks three-dimensional and ribbony. You can create images like the one above, with the glasses seemingly intertwined with the letters — I [...]

Tranlucency

Katrina — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:12:18 +0000

Tinctorial Textiles. I’m inspired by the soft hues of these overlapping translucent panels. Her simple outfit (NB kicks and black tights) is pretty cool, too. (↬This is Paper)

Colour Lover: Samuji

Katrina — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 05:17:07 +0000

Samuji (Changing Patterns) • ↬ Frankie • color palette details ∴ credits ∴ ↬from finland with love article (frankie issue #53) unicode characters (tutorial) futura medium (osx default font)

Eye Candy: The Pantone Project

Katrina — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 02:36:45 +0000

Paul Octavious photographs the everyday and matches prominent colors with Pantone color cards in The Pantone Project — freakin’ genius. (ᔥ Ona Bags)

Packaging

Katrina — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:18:11 +0000

Each of these little bottles has one top that serves two containers of nail polish. On one end is the base color and the other is an accent color for nail art. I have a lot of nail polish, but these two bottles were so cute, I bought them anyway. They look like test tubes [...]

Rijks Museum Free Hi-Res Art Downloads

Katrina — Thu, 30 May 2013 03:45:37 +0000

Bloemen (Anonymous) I read in the New York Times that the Rijks Museum is offering hi-res downloads of many of the works of art in their collection. Their plan is to add 40,000 images every year! I browsed through their catalog and found a lot of beautiful floral paintings, a self-portrait by Van Gogh, some [...]

Launched No. 4

Katrina — Tue, 28 May 2013 07:10:54 +0000

Here’s the latest set of recent launches. Some of them I’ve collected myself and others were submitted by you guys. Thanks for your submissions! As usual, WordPress and Blogger are leading the pack. I’m surprised that so few people are using Squarespace. I recently migrated a pal’s WordPress site to Squarespace 6 and I was [...]

Small Link, Big Love: New Links Loved Format

Katrina — Mon, 27 May 2013 21:02:03 +0000

I’m experimenting with a new format for Links Loved that would be a fast favorite “share as I stumble upon it” type of post. I call it Small Link, Big Love. Each post will be a link to a single site with very little or no commentary. This idea has gone through a few design [...]

Eye Candy: This is Paper Magazine

Katrina — Mon, 27 May 2013 17:40:26 +0000

Presswerk by Marie-Niamh Dowling Beautifully curated and endlessly interesting. This is Paper Magazine — a fast favorite! (via mass email PR)

Good Night Little Spoon: Ephemera Freebie

Katrina — Fri, 24 May 2013 03:46:58 +0000

Bianca over at Goodnight Little Spoon is offering some hi-res Ephemera Freebies. If you ever need a photo of an envelope that says “Confidential”, a bingo card, a fortune cookie fortune, ticket stubs, heart doilies, or a silver medallion, you’ll find them in Bianca’s collection. The old photos, postcards, and labels are my favorites. Thanks, [...]