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Preview of 3 in-progress WordPress restaurant themes
For the past couple of months, I’ve been working on a series of restaurant style WordPress themes. I’m planning on releasing them for free in the next couple of months. Here’s a quick preview of what’s to come:
Diner Menu
Diner Menu is a one-page responsive theme. It should be released within the next month.
FeedMe
Quaint Cafe
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Adventure[s] Broken Hearted Ball: Breakup/Hookup Poster
My brother recently asked me to design a poster for one of his Adventure[s] parties. I’m not really that great with poster/graphic design, but I gave it a go and am pleased with the result:
![Adventure[s] Broken Hearted Ball: Breakup/Hookup Poster](https://i0.wp.com/melchoyce.design/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/adventures-ball.png?resize=800%2C1200&ssl=1 "adventures-ball")
If you’re in Brooklyn next month, check it out!
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Book Cover Redesigns
Book covers, I’ve noticed, are becoming increasingly more attractive. While you can’t necessarily judge a book by its cover, an eye-catching cover is a great way to get someone’s attention. Often, when I want to pick up something new, I wander around a bookstore looking for something that looks visually interesting. I find a cover that appeals to me, read the synopsis, and if it sounds awesome I’ll get it. Covers definitely play an important role in that initial attraction to an unfamiliar book or series.
Recently, there’s been a pretty big influx of redesigned book covers in bookstores. My favorite, unsurprisingly, are the new Song of the Lioness covers:
I need to resist the urge to buy the whole set again just for shiny new covers (I already have three sets). Seriously. I’m kind of obsessed.
Anyway, Tamora Pierce books aside, I recently came across this gallery of recently redesigned book covers, and damn, they look good! Here are a few examples:
Does anyone else have any book covers recently redesigned that you like?
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I love painted lettering on old buildings
I love finding great typography on buildings. The older, the better. Northampton in particular has a lot of this — look around you downtown and you’ll see examples everywhere. There are many faded signs on buildings all around town, including right across from my own workplace. I’ll take some more pictures some time and post them up.
This particular example is right next to Thornes. I’m pretty sure there used to be a sign over it, since I only just recently noticed this. Love the lettering and the details.
Hand-painted advertising in general is a fascinating, dying art. If you’re interested in learning about it, check out Ghost Signs: The Dying Art of Hand-Painted Advertisements.
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Awesome, well-designed local poster for Josh Ritter concert
(sorry for the quality — cellphone pic!)
I was walking into town from work other day when I noticed this poster tacked up. It immediately caught my attention! Love the typography, first of all (Archer is so sexy), and the overall silhouetted/banner style is great. Definitely a big step up from most other concert posters I see around town. It’s very professional and “designed” looking.
Anyone know who designed this? @mollyampersand thinks it might be Rob & Damia. (Love their work!) Can anyone confirm?
Edit: Designer found! Poster courtesy of Matt Fleming at http://www.blackt-shirt.com/.
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Gold Top design
Simon Walker’s Gold Top Cider logo and bottle design is a great example of creative typography. Love how the decender on the G forms the bar of the T in Tops.Some more shots:
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Hops Chart
Well designed infographic showing different hops, arranged by flavors, aroma and bitterness. You can buy it online at hopschart.com. -
Pistashio App
Today we introduced a new face to Pistashio, you might have already noticed him in the top-left of the site. You will be seeing a lot more of this little guy as we evolve Pistashio. You will see him in many different costumes, sporting new gear and always switching up his mustache style!
The one things he’s missing though, is a name. And that’s where you come in. We would like our users to let us know what they think his name should be. Remember, he’s a unique guy, a nut of many talents, so he needs a name that reflects that.
Add your ideas to this posts and we’ll take the top 5 and have users vote on them in the coming months.
