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IN THIS ISSUE: A Designer’s Interest in Pinterest
PINTEREST UI
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The Pinterest Logo
In May 2011, Pinterest revealed its new logo, designed by Michael Deal and typographer Juan Carlos Pagan (jcpagan.com). On their blog, Pinterest shared some of the key points in developing this logo:
The team used a logotype as the primary mark and developed a badge that repeats the initial letter
Moods for the logo included casual, carefully crafty, and nostalgic (but not retro)
Bolder type was required to respond to the smaller states the logo would appear in, especially on mobile screens
Using the lowercase italic “r” gave the logotype a bit more own-ability and charm.
The weight of the “P” was balanced by the weight of the “st” ligature at the end of the logo
Read the full article for more information: A New Pinterest Logo: Design Notes from Michael & Carlos
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Use Pinterest to Get Your Creations Discovered
Let’s say you’re a fashion designer who makes clothing out of recycled tires. Beautiful clothing. But it’s all made from recycled rubber. The problem when it comes to marketing your product in the traditional search-focused online space is this: no one is typing “recycled rubber clothing” in Google (except maybe fetishists).
No one’s searching for your product. Because they don’t even know that such a thing exists.
Now let’s say you’re that same recycled-rubber designer, and you’ve got an Etsy store. People can find you on Etsy – among the 1000s of other small designers – and they can even favorite your stuff. But that’s as far as that goes. They found you; they favorited you; they left Etsy… and it’s like that whole interaction never happened.
Now let’s say instead of being favorited on Etsy, someone pins you to one of their Pinte…
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A Pinterest Board Hack
Every Pinterest board you make appears in a 9-square grid on your overview page, like the above image.
But Nick McGlynn decided to get creative and turn his boards into this nine 150-pixel squares…
In this tutorial on Mashable, learn how to use PicSlice (or Photoshop) to slice a single image into nine 150-pixel squares… and then load them on Pinterest for just this effect.
Chime-In
If you were forced to choose, which tool would you stop using to start using Pinterest?
Rohan,
Google +
Mike,
None... Pinterest is a fluke and the copyright issues they are facing means they might not even exists in 6 months.
The MasterPiece
Pinterest: Where Others Curate the World You Designed
How does it feel to know that every JPG or PNG you put on your blog or on a client’s website is about to be curated by random site visitors… and then liked (or re-pinned) by the rest of the world?
Welcome to Pinterest, which was founded in 2010 and has recently shot i…
Quick Tutorial
Get your Pinterest Site in 6 Simple Steps
Pinterest has been creating quite a stir in the social networking world over the past months. One of the most beautiful things about the web is that it’s full of overwhelming resources, tutorials and plugins developed by dedicated developers in order to make our lives easier. For people who want to ride the waves of the popularity and create their own Pinterest clone websites. Today we are going to get your own Pinterest site in 4 simple steps.
- Create the HTML structure of your boxes.
- Setting the size of your images
- Adding the like feature to your posts
- Integrat
A Designer's Quote
We didn’t build this company to build a really hot tech startup; what we wanted to do is building a product that people actually use and that enhances their lives. It’s part of our philosophy — we want to build something that everybody finds useful.
— EVAN SHARP
GEMS FOR STEAL
Pinterest RSS Widget
This plugin allows you to place a widget on your sidebar to display thumbnails and titles of the latest Pinterest Pins from a specific user via their Pinterest RSS feed. You can choose whether to show the description below the image, and you can set the height and width of the thumbnails to fit your theme.
Imbalance 2
This free WordPress theme with a modern flexible features and layout can turns you WordPress-based website to an attractive blog, portfolio or even online magazine. Designed in strict modern style with a minimalistic touch that can easily fresh up your web-magazine or blog. Check out the demo here.
THE DESIGN GALLERY
Below you'll find a hand-picked selection of some for your viewing pleasure.
Weekly Wall of Fame
Meet Joy Cho,
Designer, Blogger & Pinner
Since September 2005, Joy Deangdeelert Cho has been blogging about design, fashion and food on Oh Joy! And now with nearly 820K followers on Pinterest, Joy is sharing her favorite content on pinboards like:
From the Archive
Behind the Design of an Addictive Visual Network
It’s no secret that users everywhere are addicted to Pinterest. Pinterest’s simplicity and browsability comes from the nimble fingers of designer Evan Sharp. Sharp spoke about the site’s design, its growth and how his background in architecture comes in handy. See how its design lends directly towards its success.
Featured Tutorial
A Basic Responsive Grid
Responsive web design is here to stay. Jeffrey Zeldman’s press, A Book Apart, has published a book by the name. The HTML5 Boilerplate has responsive elements built into its code base. Everybody and their uncle is promoting their new responsive web template. Learn how to built your first fluid & responsive grid for your next layout design.
