Design Blog

Qlocktwo

Via DesignYouTrust

It’s a piano! In a table!

Via Fubiz

Miconos Table Lamp

Via Design You Trust

Wall of Sound

Via Uncrate

Scissor Knife!

Via Atypyk

Oh, I want this. Bad.

Best minimal version of Google.

Via Minimal Sites

I highly recommend using this for your home page. It’s just beautiful

LaCie Box

Via Geek&Hype
This is what drive enclosures are supposed to look like.

All Black

Via Geek&Hype
This is why I can’t find most of my stuff. To add insult to injury, my desk and workspace is all black as well. I guess if I go blind, I’ve trained myself for accurate, tactile awareness.

Forest Bound Recycled Bags

Via Uncrate
Oooo. Pretty and good for the environment. Rock on.

Flavors.me

Via Geek&Hype
A simple, effective, and potentially beautiful port for the most common social networks. I would use this if I wasn’t already working on my own.

All Occasions Cards

Via You & Me The Royal Three
These are perfect. These three cards easily sum up most situations.

FLIQLO Screensaver

Via 9031
This isn’t really new, but it is… timeless.

Layout Changes

The Design Blog has gone through a lot of changes since it was started. It started with kind of a magazine-style layout with links, thumbnails, tag clouds, and all kinds of other cluttery crap. I wanted to simplify it, so I cut it way down to a single column. This looked great, but the problem I was running into there, was the lack of ad space. Design Blog is the only blog I run that generates revenue. I was loosing quite a bit of money by not having that ad space there. Last night, I was up until around six this morning, working on this new version with a sidebar that can contain my ads. I realize that very few of us want to look at ads, but it’s what keeps projects like this going, so as ugly as they are, they’re kind of a necessity. That is all for now. Good day.

Brick Lamp

Via Geek&Hype

An Apple Workstation

Via Inzider

Moleskine Passions

Via Uncrate

101st Post

One hundred and one posts, but you’ll never see any of them. Let’s just call this post one.

Format Changes…

It would seem… scratch that. Ahem. It is quite obvious that I cannot keep anything static for too long without getting sick of looking at it. Everything I produce is constantly changing and evolving for no greater reason than the fact that I slowly begin to hate it. Over time I nitpick. I question. I analyze. I find more and more faults in everything. It really is ridiculous.

Perhaps it’s making me a better person. Perhaps I’m getting better at what I do. More efficient. More productive. In any case, preface aside, I have decided to change the format of my design blog. Before, it was just so vague. Alright, so I had some pretty things posted for you all to look at. What does that mean? Nothing. You could just as easily find any of those things on your own. The design blog was just inundated with random, creative things I had collected. I was unconsciously turning it into precisely what I was making every conscious effort to avoid. It was becoming cluttered.

This, that, these, those, categories, tags, more categories, MORE tags, images of various sizes, hours of scavenging for something I saw worthy of my blog… It was just too much. There was no theme. No… cohesion. Sure, all those tags, categories, and permalinks made the SEO work pretty simple. I even got a number two Google ranking for the term “grotesque design”. Try it. I’m right there under grotesque.hu. REGARDLESS!! It is time to clean house.

I am now narrowing my scope. I am specifying and zeroing in. Instead of grabbing everything that’s new and shiny, I will be far more selective. The new format of Design Blog is ‘minimalism’. Wait. Wait. I know what you’re thinking. Oh Jesus, Brandon. There’s HUNDREDS of minimalist blogs out there! However true this may be, there are *hundreds of THOUSANDS of random design blogs. So I really am narrowing it down a wee bit.

I promise from this point forth, to only post things that meet at least two of the following three criteria:

1. Minimal
2. Attractive
3. Efficient

I’m not sure what mediums I will be adhering to, but I suppose through time, we’ll both come to figure that one out. Do you see the irony here? Me rambling on and on in excess about minimalism and efficiency? Stop listening to me. Go read a book or something.

~BPT

{ *complete speculation based on no empirical data whatsoever. }

PS: Seems only appropriate that this is the 100th post on Design Blog. Also, if you click on the navigation button at the top of the page, you will see a list of archived months… Yeah… don’t bother. They won’t take you to any point before February, but they’ll update as I post more, so chill out. It’s not a bug or anything. I’ve just chosen, in the spirit of renewal, to hide all previous posts. I didn’t delete them because well, that’s a lot of SEO I’d be losing. Be well.