Stewdio.org is the website of Stewart Smith, a designer from NYC that has done some great work. I was particularly amused by his Browser Pong app….basically the classic computer game Pong done with browser windows. Super fun!

Ever since I read Edward Tufte’s book Envisioning Information, I have been a semi-informed fan of information design. As a computer nerd programmer, I <3 data, and as a (hack) designer, I <3 design. As such, I believe there is no better way to view data than through the filter of design. Though after getting stoked about infographics prior to my first HCI course in college, I rarely came across good examples.

Lately there seems to have been a turn in the tide. I have seen more examples of current infographics than ever before in blogs and traditional media. Maybe it’s because there are more people in the business or maybe the media is just starting to celebrate it more. Either way, it’s exciting. I recently got a copy of The Visual Miscellaneum by David Mccandless. The book features more than 200 pages of beautiful diagrams representing countless topics of collected data. Even though it has a few errors & it would be nice if it was hardbound, it’s addicting to look at. I would recommend it to anyone.

Need an infographics fix right now?
try: datavisualization.ch

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Our fun, fearless, fabulous LesNouvelles ladies got nominated for Daily Candy’s Sweetest Things 2009. Go here to vote now!

Sol Design follows Tandus at the Neocon World’s Trade Fair this year to blog all about it.

Check it out / Tandus at Neocon

Web 2.0 – It’s the look you’ve been looking for.

Sleek, shiny, straightforward. Soft, rounded edges, crisp-clear text, and a reflection so cool you get chills.

We’ve seen it popping up all over the place; it’s a trend we at Sol Design welcome so whole-heartedly that we’re going to share it with you, honoring the DIY spirit in all of us.

Here’s a really simple tutorial on making a web 2.0 style logo in Photoshop. I used a Mac, with CS2.

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We recently finished building the harmony-blog.com website. Our buddy Peter brainstormed with the owners of the blog and came up with a great idea to make the blog look like real postcards. When we got the finished design it looked amazing. Problem was, it had a few things here and there that are “impossible” for the web.

But with our turbo nerdy know-how, nothing is impossible at Sol Design. (more…)