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The 10 Best Shots From Dribbble - Spring 2010
Brandon Davenport
Have you ever Dribbbled before? If not, you are missing out and you should ask for an invite - @itsbrandond (me) love Dribbble to death, and even though I haven’t gotten an invite yet (I would like one) I will be the first in line when the time comes where you can sign up, publicly.
Dribbble is a new innovative way for designers, artists and developers to share the stuff they are working on, and get some really useful feedback. You make these things called “shots”, which are 400 x 300 pixel screen grabs of what you are working on. Since there have been almost 2 billion pixles uploaded, there is a lot of really cool shots to look at. I have done some searching, and found the 10 best shots from Dribbble in Spring 2010.
10 Best Dribbble Shots
Click the images to view on Dribbble
Apple iPhone 4G icon
By: Alan van Roemburg
“Just playing around with a Apple iPhone 4G icon - Work in progress”
This is probably the only “picture” where I can appreciate the iPhone 4G’s design. The iPhone 4G seems to me like a few steps back, design wise, but also a few steps forward in other ways, like the OS and hardware.
There is a very interesting discussion on Dribbble…
Tight Fit
By: Tyler Thompson
“Lots of placeholder info in this one. Working my way through a major redesign and trying out different layouts, colors and information placement.”
To me, this is some classic TT design, tight lines and clean cut edges, really do make this a crisp re-design for what appears to be the Squarespace site. I am not sure if it’s going to ever happen, but nevertheless, this template is simply bold.
Tedious
By: John Neiner
“Haven’t Dribbbled in a little bit so I thought I would post a pic of a VERY tedious project I’m working on.”
Wow! This hand crafted graphic from John Neiner is really proof that “from scratch” art done on a computer is still in full force, and more beautiful than ever!
Getting Started
By: Robert Andersen
“Stop being awesome. Stop it! I love how the backgrounds shift just a bit as they would when an iPhone is just a bit closer. Awesome.” - Comment
Robert Andersen is one of the guys working at Square, the credit card payment system for iPhone and iPad. This is a new graphic for their “Getting started” page on squareup.com. Great work, and has sure given people major inspiration.
Progression
By: Krystyn Heide
“188 lines of CSS written. Tab behavior, content slider and Typekit functioning. Now for the content!”
Krystyn Heide is one of those designers that takes something that should be way too busy looking, and spends the time to refine it and simplify it, without loosing functionality or features.
This is a great shot of something she is working on, which I think is a re-design of her blog.
Twitter - Tweetie
By: Gerardo Diaz
“I wasn’t crazy with the new logo for the Twitter app (Tweetie 3), so tried to do a new one… This is maybe something that I would’ve liked to have seen as a nice transition..”
Twitter, listen up - your icon for the new iPhone app sucks. Its a candy coated monstrosity of the original Tweetie icon, which was much better.
Twitter - Tweetie - Rebound
By: Josh Hemsley
“Was a blog post necessary? Probably not, but what the heck, I had fun making some other icon examples to coincide Gerardo’s beautiful version! :)”
Rebounding off the shot above, these are some really vibrant variants of Gerado’s Twitter iPhone icon.
Personally, I like the one to the left, very top (sort of cut off). If Twitter can make some updates to the app including one of these icons…
Macstories Icon Replacement
By: Jeff Broderick
“Like the texture for the paper and background as well. Care to share your process on making that texture?” - Comment
How the hell does somebody have the talent to dedicate so much attention to detail? Lots of this detail will never be seen, like the texture of the paper, or the detailed thread - but it just goes to show how much dedication some designers put into their work.
The Phoney Collection
By: Matthew Rex
“This is several months in the making, and an insane amount hours in Photoshop. Sixty icons spanning all sorts of apps, games & web sites. You can download the collection for free at my site.”
Oh my god, these are 1000 times better than the default app icons, and I will be downloading immediately - From here
Tweetmeme done right
By: Tylor Skory
“Playing around with some CSS3 effects for the Twitter and Facebook buttons”
So many times, I have been on websites with great content, but it is drowning in these frigging Tweetmeme and Facebook “share” buttons, which are the ugliest things ever.
Tylor Skory has taken it a notch up, and use some CSS3 techniques to make these buttons pop.
