Having just had a meeting at the Urania Observatory in Zürich - Switzerland, we played around with Google Earth to compare the view. Not bad, indeed. Although the bridge would be quite an exciting ride on Google Earth.

Moodboards

The Pluspurple office needed a redesign. So, as good web designers we looked up for some digital mood boards to have some fun before taking a paint brush in hand. We came past some fun mood board tools to test our nerves. One from mydeco or an entire website just on the subject. Olioboard

Website interaction

Playing around with code and seeing what comes out when you change one or more parameters has always fascinated us here at the Pluspurple headquarters. Originally it was Flash, now there other alternatives on the market to play around with code and form. The above design was created with paperjs.

Booky site

Not too long ago Pluspurple was able to launch the Walde + Graf website. During our research for the project, we were surprised to find so few nicely designed publisher websites. We did however stumble across the Magma website. It's not a publisher website, per se, but more of an ecommerce site. However, they still managed to create a feel and uniqueness which lots of publishing or ecommerce websites lack. You must also check out their brick and mortor stores, which we would also give a big thumbs up to.

Arigato

A lovely clean and simple website. It's from designers to designers to support the victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The website is built in a simple scroll down fashion, however still feels fresh. It even reminds us a little of the Japanese paper scrolls with the big red stamp at the end. If you want to help or just have a look click here.

Clean Website

With the re-brand of this well established company dating back to the 1920's, a simple but striking visual language has been expertly crafted. We particularly enjoy the clean and reduced website design which echoes the similarly plain product packaging. With beautiful photos and well balanced logo, the website design steps back and lets the product do all the talking. Less is definitely more.

www.falconenamelware.com/

Paper Paper Colour

A simple letter A - 180 sheets of 80gsm paper at the size of 18.5 x 24cm. It is astounding what one can do with the most simple of products. We always enjoy work executed in subtly but brilliant manner. Jen Stark with her paper creations is another favourite of ours, indeed.

We feel Felt

Great to see one of our favourite illustrator/designer/artist Jon Burgerman's creations in Felt. Take a look at these rather loud pillows or these more country oriented ones here. Not enough? - here are some more colour extravaganza designs we liked too.

A small type

We are still always surprised to find novel ways of representing type. Here is a little crazy idea and undoubtedly a rather labour intensive method of making a typeface. (and some more work of the artist). Here we thought making lead coast type was fiddly. But then there's always something that goes that one step further. Surely the smallest art pieces in the world.

I hear colour

With coming of spring it is surely the best time to get some cool coloured headphones, find a sunny spot and enjoy some good music. We especially loved the way they are presented, shame we cannot read any of the words though.

Statistic design and function

It's interessting how a smiple layout of a few colours can communicate more then a thousand words. It is as always difficult to design of course, but it allows then the user to show the information in a short amount of time with out much explanation.
For more interaction click here or this one for video rental patterns in the US.

And here a great but rather sad statistic from 1869.