Stuff We <3

More Inspiring Websites

• Mimidoo

  Super simple site with just enough hand-drawn details to be cute and memorable without being over-the-top.  Mirrors the branding of the app perfectly, check it out here

• placekitten

  Kittens as placeholders in your dev site/designs. Yes, we’ve used this service before and it’s as cuddly and awesome as you imagine it to be. A surefire way to make any client coo upon seeing your designs and immediately approve all your crazy ideas you’ve thrown in to your comps without questioning you once.

• Martin Cole

  aka The Ultimate Illustrator. Smart, sharp work comes outta this guy every day. I follow his flickr and also his many stonerific sites like upper-cut.net and dot-jpg.

• For Japan With Love | Disaster Relief

  \ For Japan With Love is a site created by Utterly Engaged and Ever Ours.  Over 1000 blogs participated in their bloggers day of silence which occured this past Friday. A simple effort to create awareness that grew into a really large event. They have also been accepting donations, their goal was to raise $5,500 [...]

• 58 Cents by David Horvitz

  David Horvitz is a Brooklyn-based artist whom I admire and respect very much. In his new project 58 Cents, he aims to pay off the entirety of his student loan debt by asking total strangers to send payments to Sallie Mae, one 58-cent-check at a time. Wish I’d thought of this first… Funny, smart, practical.

• Pomme.us

  Pomme! You are dealt a certain number of images to choose from. Pick an image to play it against the “judge,” whose card/image is in the center. The judge will pick the best image “match” at his or her discretion. It’s all about personal associations. It’s like Apples to Apples with pictures! and in a [...]

• Six Word Story Every Day

  Six Word Story Every Day is a project that was started by a college friend of mine about 2 years ago. The concept is simple: 6 words, making a “story” rendered and illustrated beautifully. From their site: “… daily storytelling exploration through language and typography. It was inspired by the work Ernest Hemingway regarded as [...]

• Carbon

  Superb smooth-scrolling site from Carbon.  Check out the slick color change effect here

• Hand Drawn Map Association

  Flavorpill brought this website to our attention today… We’re huge fans of amateur cartography and have often thought of making some of our own maps digitally but it’s really exciting to see this giant collection of hand drawn versions. It gives us ideas, ideas, ideas <3 Also, if you are NYC locals like us, they [...]

• WTF CNN?

  We like to keep ourselves informed on the important things happening around the world and that’s why we often turn to CNN. To us ‘important’ means things like ongoing wars, the Wikileaks case, America’s failing economy and other things that are a BIG DEAL to our future. What we don’t find to be important are [...]