I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend – I know I did! Since I didn’t have time to post a “What’s Up Wednesday” last week, today’s post will contain some items from last week.

Sketchin’

A few random sketches I did last week, the eye is my favorite.

Floral Typography

I’m not really into floral decorations or patterns much but I can appreciate when they are used properly and with a great end result. Smashing Mag has posted a list of some beautiful uses of flourishes in typography/calligraphy. A couple of my favorites from the list are Black Out (which has great design period!), Summer Exhibition, and Play. At the bottom of the article, SM also provides links to tutorials so you can create your own floral typography.

Styling Buttons

Styling form & link buttons is definitely one of my weak points and are usually an afterthought once the design of a website is almost complete. Speckyboy has posted 22 CSS Button Styling Techniques for those of us that fall into the category of detesting form design. Not only that, there are quite a few articles detailing different Sliding Door methods;  a definite know-how that designers should have in their arsenal of design techniques.

No WOW over the WoW Equipment Manager

If you play World of Warcraft then you know about the release of the character equipment manager in last week’s patch update. After all the hype about this new feature since 2007, I have to give Blizzard a resounding FAIL on this one. Why? Well one look at the popular addon Outfitter can answer that question. Outfitter has a multitude of customization features that allows players to easily swap their character’s equipable items based on many different variables (stances, mounted, swimming, battle, fishing, etc). I think Blizzard was trying to completely replace Outfitter (the new equipment manager button is exactly where the Outfitter button is displayed and is even the same size) but I’d rather they actually pay the developer of Outfitter for the rights to his mod and actually integrate it into the game. There are quite a few mods/addons that work better than Blizzard’s in game features and it would great to see the authors of those addons recognized.

Now that I’m re-reading what I just typed, I think my main gripe is Blizzard could have created another more useful feature instead. I still have my fingers crossed for Player housing someday.

Have A Taste

This week, the last item in my Delicious bookmarks is the Card Observer, which is a gallery of some very creative business cards. Business cards can assist with giving a great first impression to the person that receives them, as well as displaying some level of professionalism. Card Observer shows how business cards are no longer a  white stock card with some basic information – business cards now have their own personalities!

That’s it for this week’s What’s Up Wendesday!

Category: What's Up Wednesday | Tags: css,design,sketching,typography,world of warcraft

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