Dribbble Blog

October 20, 2014

Since Last Week

When he's not banjo-jamming in spectacular head-ware (above left, with Chris Coyier, photo by Jamie Strachan), Dan's being all sneaky-peeky with a new something coming soon to the Equipment Shop (above center). In Timeout, we heard from French designer Barthelemy Chalvet (Barthelemy's Gravedona above right).

Good Work

The Union for Contemporary Art in Omaha unites "artists and the community to inspire positive social change." Poster by Justin Kemerling.

The Plaid Shirt Society supports "not-for-profit organizations which place importance on building strong communities, pushing the boundaries of social awareness and involvement, and which value individualism, communication and positive thinking to attain their goals." This year, the society's fundraiser supports Shameless, a volunteer-run Canadian magazine giving voice to women and trans youth. Event poster by Erik von Stackelberg.

Launched

Palettab, "a New Tab Chrome Extension for Designers to help us discover new Fonts and Colors with every new tab" from Claudio Guglieri and Tim Holman

Bizzy

Universal Print by Joe Baker

Business cards by Grant Burke for Grant Burke

Letterpress business cards by Megan Clark for Rokke

Business cards by Devin Halladay for Devin Halladay

Business Card by Nice Cream Cone, AKA Stephanie Hardy

Inked

Scribbble Tattoo Parlor branding by Maroon Baboon

Winter is Coming.

autumn-winter by Kubra Aslan

Winter Village by Jelle Gijsberts, AKA JellePelle

Fine Wine

Lisa Gorham put pencil to paper illustrating Schubert's profile in synchronized movements with the composer's music. For Shubert's Serenade, from the Catoctin Breeze Vineyard's Composer wine series.

Logo-A-Gogo

Julien Navarre (wedding photographer) by Sarah Dayan

Findlay Force (from Findlay Hats) by Nicholas Hammond

139 by Inka Mathew

Zero by Andreas Storm

Say Cheese!

Old El Paso website and "Cheese Blasting" app design by Mariesa Dale

Vicious cat by Vaïnui de Castelbajac

Ricos Quesos Social Networks by Gustavo Zambelli for Ricos Quesos

Learn

Guide to UX Process Documentation by Adam Zielonko from UXPin

Coaches' Picks

Garden Estúdio Illustrations by Lucas Bebber

Phish Fall Tour Shirt by Brian Steely

Other world by Brian Weaver

Teams

Find & Form is sponsoring the AndGo student design competition.

Jakob Chrøis and Ane Skov Vithner of the Stupid Studio made this video for Copenhagen's annual We Love Graphic Design conference (original conference identity by Hvass & Hannibal). Jakob Henner made the video player.

Meetup Wrap-up

Manchester, United Kingdom, October 15

Thank you to organizer Mark Wheeler, who reports good times had by all. Thanks as well to SpacePort for offering up their space. Congratulations to Jennifer Welsh and Emily Hill for winning the night's logo-drawing competition, and congratulations to Stephen Ratcliffe for creating the winning shot in Manchester's first-ever playoff (shot above left).

A second Manchester Meetup is on the calendar for Nov. 18 and a second Manchester playoff has already begun. See opening salvo above right. Keep up with the Manchester crew on Twitter, too.

New York City, New York, October 16

Adam Waxman turned a vaguely detailed meetup scheduled at a drugstore into a big old Dribbble throw-down at SeatGeek, completely with a great speaker, Etsy's Cap Watkins. Thank you Adam, Cap and everyone who turned out.

Meetups

Irvine, California Thursday, October 23, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., Envoy, 34 Tesla. RSVP.

Nice, France Thursday, October 23, 7 p.m., Café des Chineurs, 1 Rue Cassini. RSVP.

Tehran, Iran Thursday, October 23, 9 a.m. RSVP.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands Designers and Developers Dribbble Meetup, Friday, October 24, 7 p.m., Publitas.com BV, Zeeburgerpad 5, 1018 AH. RSVP.

London, England Designers and Developers Dribbble Meetup, Friday, October 24, 6:30 p.m., The Vinyl Factory (entry via Phonica Records), 51 Poland Street. Sponsored by Badoo and Three Beards. RSVP.

Charleston, South Carolina Wednesday, October 29, 6 p.m., eHouse Studio, 2 Race Street. Speaker: Matt Stevens, designer, illustrator, and creative tinkerer. RSVP details to follow.

Portland, Oregon PDX Lettering Collective, Wednesday, October 29, 12:30 p.m., San Sai Japanese Grill, 539 NW 21st Street. RSVP.

Chicago, Illinois Wednesday, November 5, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m., Bright Bright Great, 4131 West Belmont Ave. #D. RSVP.

San Diego, California Saturday, November 8, 7 p.m., The Lofts at 677 7th. RSVP.

West Palm Beach, Florida Tuesday, November 11, 7 p.m., Lynora's Osteria, 207 Clematis Street. Sponsored by InVision, Rosenfeld Media, UpThemes, and United Pixelworkers. RSVP.

Belfast, Northern Ireland Dribbble Meetup at Break, Wednesday, November 12, 9 p.m., 21 Social, 1 Hill Street. Sponsored by Dribbble, Get Invited, and Shopify. RSVP.

Melbourne, Australia Wednesday, November 12, 6:30 p.m., Redbubble, Level 3, 271 Collins Street. Speaker: Blaz Robar. Sponsors: Redbubble, Temple Brewing, Vino Mofo, and Bourbon Street Soul Food. RSVP.

Manchester, UK Tuesday, November 18, 6 p.m. - 7 p.m., Spaceport, 24/26 Lever Street. RSVP.

Ahmedabad, India Saturday, November 22, 5 p.m., location information to come. RSVP.

Kent, Ohio Saturday, November 22, 11 a.m., Scribbles Coffee Co., 237 North Water Street. RSVP.

Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.

I’m Barthelemy Chalvet, a French webdesigner based in Paris. I’m founder of AgenceMe and lead designer at Xola.com. AgenceMe is a small agency created 3 years ago and it’s composed of three people, Marine/Designer, Florent/Front Developer, and I. I also created two companies with my awesome team CodeNgo: Sponseasy.com (a sponsorhip deck builder) and Clapp (a new way to create and join short story movies with your friends or even total strangers. )

What are you working on?

Currently I’m working on new tools and themes for Wordpress software. For a few months we've stayed focused on improving our theme and I can say, it was challenging. Since the theme is launching, we're working on new amazing plugins for this theme, I can just say it will be really cool to use. It was fun to create many different layouts and styles with the same software, it’s incredible all you can do.

Choose a favorite shot of yours. Tell us why it's a favorite.

Gravedona

I choose this shot because it’s one of my most recent works. I’m fascinated by how it’s easy to build this page without any skills of development and design. Anyone can create something in few minutes. I also love to create animated shot for Dribbble, I think it’s easier for developers and other people to understand my design toughts.

Tell us about your setup. What tools did you use to create the shot (e.g. hardware, software, pens, paper, blowtorch)?

I use differents tools and software to create my Dribbble shots, and for our clients. First, I create many, many different versions of the UX design. I love this first step of work, it’s so creative. Once it’s approved by the client, I like to use the Slicy app to cut all icons and images in Retina in few seconds. Then I animate everything with After Effects.

Choose a favorite shot from another player. Tell us why you dig it.

Infographic by Jonathan Moreira

Infographic for ThoughtSpot. I love all Jonathan’s work. His work is unique, it’s always so inspiring.

October 14, 2014

Since Last Week

Last night Dan attended the New Orleans Dribbble Meetup at Cafe du Monde and today he spoke at CSS Dev Conf 2014. (Banner ad by conference organizer Christopher Schmitt above left.)

Back at HQ, we introduced the Charcoal Gameplan Notebook and took a Timeout with Victor Erixon. (Charcoal Gameplan Notebook center. Victor's Apple OS Montauk right.)

Finally, September Dribbble Meetup numbers are in. 700 people attended 17 meetups in 8 countries. Additionally, we held “alternative” meetups at Bartfest in Spokane and at the National Poster Retrospecticus in Pawtucket, plus bought pizza for Refresh Boston's September Event.

Good Work

For the third year in a row, Dribbble is sponsoring the Festivus 5K holiday-themed race here in Salem and for the third year in a row, Dan is branding the event. The race raises money for the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism.

Who Lives in a Search Engine Under the Sea?

We received a congratulatory note for ranking high in Google Image Search. What search term helped us rise to the top? "Spongebob Wallpaper." Thank you, Samuel Suarez!

Branded

Airfy rebrand by Mariusz Ciesla

Ivory Life branding by Amanda Cole

Mims House branding concept by Jessica Levitz

Business card concept by and for Cassandra Reid

Book 'em

Simple booking form from Tony Craig

Desktop version of a booking app from Online Department

Celebrate A Beta

Beta for Monodraw, a modern ASCII art editor for the Mac, launching soon; from Helftone, posted by Atanas Mahony

A Maze Ing

Pastel optical maze by Kasper van Eerden

Patchy

Katie Aronat designed these patches for a nonprofit that will focus on removing plastic from the ocean.

Eddie Bauer patches by Curtis Jinkins

Jazz Trio

Piano: Hands by Ross Bruggink

Drums: Drums Master App by Kovalev Slava

Bass: Stand Up Bass by Chris Fernandez

Smooth Landing

Messenger Watch UI/Landing Page by Ehsan Rahimi

New site by Mik Skuza

OK Go Fish

O Kingdom by Jonathan Black

K mark by Ivan Bobrov

Go Fish by Claire O'Brien

You Blinded Us with Science

DNA by Handel Eugene

Flight videos deconstructed by Eleanor Lutz for her science illustration blog Tabletop Whale

Concept for a birthday invitation at a space museum by Jessica Yeo

Because I'm Appy

Snowball Android app from Squanda "shows your messages from Facebook, Snapchat, WhatsApp, SMS and all your other social apps in ONE place." Posted by Daniel Burka, who created the identity.

In-the-works finance app for kids and teens from Free Association

Graph animation showing music intensity levels, posted by Maria Clara Irisarri for an app she is developing with Alex Deruette

Dribbble Trivia

3 out of 7 Dribbble Team members live or have lived in Carolina: Elizabeth (Greenville), Rich (Chapel Hill) and Susanna (Durham).

UNC Charlotte Homecoming poster by Britt Davis

Stamps by Katherine Rainey

Badass Lady Creatives

Featured over at Badass Lady Creatives:

Chicago-based Cuban-American designer and artist Veronica Corzo-Duchardt; Screenshot 2014 04 11 16.03.00

NYC designer and illustrator Simone Noronha; Cruising

Teams

Mads Burcharth shared a small crop of a project he's working on for Campaign Monitor.

Nick Kumbari's playing around with Leavingstone's logo.

Ramotion's talking app icon design in reference to its work for HoursTracker.

Stephen Parker invited us to check out Squarespace 7.

Meetup Wrap-up

Toronto, Canada, September 18

Thank you to the all the Dribbblers who showed up at BNotions for the latest Toronto Meetup. Thanks especially to organizer Farah Kanji. Keep your eyes open, Toronto, for more Meetups in the future!

Austin, Texas, September 21

ATX Dribbble didn't have time to take a good photo, but they did have time to make FART ART. Dribbble Meetups ... they're a gas! (Just teasing you, Austin. We love you, and our kids love your f-art.) Photo credit: Sam Kapila.

Dublin, Ireland, September 25

No photo from Dublin. They have a good excuse: They're gearing up to celebrate their 1-year Dublin Dribbble Meetup-versary! More info. forthcoming.

Seattle, Washington, September 25

Good times. No pictures. (Sense a theme this week?) Huge thanks to Facebook for hosting, and to organizers Mike Finch, Jeremy Loughnot, and Marissa McCombs. Special shout-out to Marissa, who helped us mere days before her wedding.

Dhaka, Bangladesh, September 27

From organizer Nuruzzaman Sheikh: "We wanted to arrange a friendly Dribbble Meetup so we could spend some time together, share some working experiences, our backgrounds and journey in this fabulous field: Designing. And we really spent a good and warming 3 hours together, having some Chinese dishes at one of the interesting auto-rotating restaurants in town. We've a relatively small amount of Dribbblers and many of them lives outside of the capital. One of the designers attended the meetup from outside the capital and he sacrificed two days of time for the meetup. In short it was really a fun meetup and all of us agreed to arrange something like this in more bigger way in the coming year."

Many thanks to Nuruzzaman and his fellow organizers Tanveer Junayed and Abdus Salam, as well as everyone who attended. Extra-special thanks to Abdus, who traveled one day each way to get to/from the meetup. We appreciate the dedication!

Meetups

Pensacola, Florida TONIGHT! Dribbble Meetup! Analog for a Night, Tuesday, October 14, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., The East Hill Yard, 1010 N 12th Avenue, Suite 111. RSVP.

Manchester, England Wednesday, October 15, 6 p.m. - 7 p.m., SpacePort Manchester, 24/26 Lever Street. RSVP.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Design Philly Dribbble Meetup, Wednesday, October 15, 6:30 p.m., Garage, 1231-1233 East Passyunk Ave. Sponsored by Dribbble, Happy Cog, and Shopify. RSVP and follow @Dribbble_Philly.

Kyiv, Ukraine Thursday, October 16, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., MacPaw HQ, Horkoho 81. Sponsored by MacPaw. RSVP.

New York, New York Thursday, October 16, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m., SeatGeek, 235 Park Avenue South. Speaker: Cap Watkins, senior designer at Etsy. RSVP and follow @dribbblenyc on Twitter.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands Thursday, October 23, 7 p.m., Publitas.com BV, Zeeburgerpad 5, 1018 AH. RSVP.

Irvine, California Thursday, October 23, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., Envoy, 34 Tesla. RSVP.

Nice, France Thursday, October 23, 7 p.m., Café des Chineurs, 1 Rue Cassini. RSVP.

Tehran, Iran Thursday, October 23, 9 a.m. RSVP.

London, England Designers and Developers MeetupFriday, October 24, 6:30 p.m., The Vinyl Factory (entry via Phonica Records), 51 Poland Street. Sponsored by Badoo and Three Beards. RSVP.

Charleston, South Carolina Wednesday, October 29, 6 p.m., eHouse Studio, 2 Race Street. Speaker: Matt Stevens, designer, illustrator, and creative tinkerer. RSVP details to follow.

Portland, Oregon PDX Lettering Collective, Wednesday, October 29, 12:30 p.m., San Sai Japanese Grill, 539 NW 21st Street. RSVP.

Chicago, Illinois Wednesday, November 5, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m., Bright Bright Great, 4131 West Belmont Ave. #D. RSVP.

Melbourne, Australia Wednesday, November 12, 6:30 p.m., Redbubble, Level 3, 271 Collins Street. Speaker: Blaz Robar. Sponsors: Redbubble, Temple Brewing, Vino Mofo, and Bourbon Street Soul Food. RSVP.

Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.

I’m Victor Erixon, and I’ve been designing for two years now. I currently work remotely for Articulate. I occasionally freelance for clients on the side of that.

What are you working on?

I’m currently working together with my colleagues on updating our entire brand and all of our products. And as I’m the only UI designer, that’s something keeping me very busy at the moment.

On the side of that I’m working for a company that is going to challenge Twitch in the video platform and community for gamers field.

Choose a favorite shot of yours. Tell us why it's a favorite.

That’s a tricky one, I’m always loving the end product I’ve worked on. But I’ve this weird thing where I start to hate it after two weeks and I try to come up with something even better.

But my favorite has to be the Apple OS X redesign I did a few months ago. Not because it’s a solid redesign, but because of the eight-page discussion thread about it - most of the comments having an angry tone. I felt like I at least got people to care and talk about it. Even Khoi Vinh tweeted about it!

Tell us about your setup. What tools did you use to create the shot (e.g. hardware, software, pens, paper, blowtorch)?

I’m very simple when it comes to my setup. I see most designers having pretty decorated offices with multiple monitors. As I’m traveling much with my current job, I just need my 15” MacBook Retina and my Bose noise cancelling headphones. I normally work at home, in my office, at a café and even out in nature.

Choose a favorite shot from another player. Tell us why you dig it.

Board de Dash by Justin Mezzell

What’s not to like? Justin always has a very vibrant style that really attracts my attention. The coloring, the highlights and shadow details are just out of this world.

October 6, 2014

Since Last Week

After watching you all post links to everything from your apps to your T-shirts, we announced we're adding a simple feature to neaten that process. Over at the blog, we introduced our newest Team member, developer and ultimate frisbee fanatic Ian Ehlert.

Good Work

SHINE for Girls improves "girls’ math scores and sparks their interest in mathematics by utilizing an innovative method of formal dance training integrated with math instruction." Carolyn Zhang is rebranding the nonprofit.

Launched

Semplicelabs.com by Tobias van Schneider

Get on Board

All you need is chalk by Tatyana Koidanov

Windy by Juli Watson

Published

What I Love About Movies, featuring an illustration by Sam Dunn

October is Drawlloween

Drawlloween day 2 by Colin Gauntlett

Drawlloween No 2 Zombie by Cecy Meade

October is Inktober

Inktober 1 by Rachel Alderson

#inktober 3rd October by Estela Gaspar

Inktober14-Day01-Jason by Jason Yang

Have You Heard the One about the User Interface?

Quote from Martin LeBlanc/Iconfinder, poster by Startup Vitamins

Conceptual

Btc Exchange concept by Natalie Berowska

Pearhut Packaging Mock by Christine Lemar

GIFs That Keep on Giving

Hidden Treasure Ending by Shinsuke Matsumoto

Digitized_Ready Mag by Alex Frolov

Wish List

Hip-Hip-Hippo by Carolina Buzio for Hype & Slippers' new venture, CardNest

Food Hero Image Mockup Set by Darius Dan

Build a Robot by Steve Parker, illustrated by Owen Davey

Dingdong GUI Pack PSD by Aditya Nugraha Putra

Main Street poster by Nick Visser

We Like to Learn.

Snow Factory illustration by Juan Casini for SkyMath educational app

Invited

Design Philadelphia Kick Off Invite by James Olstein, photo by Kyle Ferino; see below for details on Design Philly Dribbble Meetup

Old mock invite by Eileen Tjan

Coaches' Picks & Project o' The Week

Swept Away by Emory Allen

Playtimes NEVER over (30th TMNT tribute show) by Luke Flowers

Wintertime On The Boardwalk by Matthew Sharack

Design Gangs project by Matt Stevens

Chillin'z 2 by Olga Vasik

Teams

Meetup hit 1 million NYC members; posted by Shane Zucker.

Sixbase's Alvin Thong has been playing around with the idea of a fantasy basketball stats app.

Chad Thompson shared some of Yeah Haus's work for Blue Shield of California; illustrations by Michelle Ouellette.

Meetup Wrap-up

London, England, September 15

The London Skillshare/Dribbble Meetup hosted the "London Dribbble Championships 2014" in which people joined rapid sketching Analogue Playoff challenges. The crew voted their favorites and winner Sophie Rawlingson received a trophy. Says organizer Frazer Wilson, "It was great fun and will likely be repeated next year."

Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 18

We served as pizza sponsor for our friends at Refresh Boston, who gathered for September's Refresh at Fresh Tilled Soil. Mat Marquis spoke about responsive images. Refresh Boston is organized by Fresh Tilled Soil and Future Insights. The next event takes place Monday, Oct. 27 and features Jason Pamental speaking about responsive typography. RSVP.

Singapore, September 23

The pictures say it all: Good times. Thank you once again to Singapore organizer Mike Chen, to sponsor buUuk, and to host Zopim. For more pictures, visit the Singapore Dribbble Group at Facebook.

London, UK, September 25

Dan joined Londoners plus Generate conference-goes for a Meetup at The Last. Thanks to organizer Jo Brakes and sponsors Badoo, Future and Shopify.

Athens, Greece, September 26

Woohoo Athens! The city held its first meetup at Tzaferi 16 (coworking space) in advance of the Digitized Conference. Thanks to organizer Konstantinos P. Penlidis for pulling it all together.

Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 3

Thanks to organizers Agustín Linenberg and Hernan Puente, and sponsors Aerolab and Indicius for throwing a great meetup in Buenos Aires. We were especially wowed by the gastro-swag.

Meetups

New Orleans, Louisiana Dribbble Meetup w/ CSS Dev. Conf., Monday, October 13, 8:30-10 p.m., Cafe du Monde, 800 Decatur Street. RSVP.

Edmonton, AB, Canada Tuesday, October 14, 8 a.m., Startup Edmonton, 10359 104th Street. RSVP.

Pensacola, Florida Dribbble Meetup! Analog for a Night, Tuesday, October 14, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., The East Hill Yard, 1010 N 12th Avenue, Suite 111. RSVP.

Manchester, England Wednesday, October 15, 6 p.m. - 7 p.m., SpacePort Manchester, 24/26 Lever Street. RSVP.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Design Philly Dribbble Meetup, Wednesday, October 15, 6:30 p.m., Garage, 1231-1233 East Passyunk Ave. Sponsored by Dribbble, Happy Cog, and Shopify. RSVP and follow @Dribbble_Philly.

Kyiv, Ukraine Thursday, October 16, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., MacPaw HQ, Horkoho 81. Sponsored by MacPaw. RSVP.

New York, New York Thursday, October 16, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m., SeatGeek, 235 Park Avenue South. Speaker: Cap Watkins, senior designer at Etsy. RSVP and follow @dribbblenyc on Twitter.

Irvine, California Thursday, October 23, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., Envoy, 34 Tesla. RSVP links to follow.

Tehran, Iran Thursday, October 23, 9 a.m. RSVP.

Charleston, South Carolina Wednesday, October 29, 6 p.m., eHouse Studio, 2 Race Street. Speaker: Matt Stevens, designer, illustrator, and creative tinkerer. RSVP details to follow.

Chicago, Illinois Wednesday, November 5, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m., Bright Bright Great, 4131 West Belmont Ave. #D. RSVP.

Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews, five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Today we meet the newest member of the Dribbble team, Ian Ehlert. Thanks, Ian!

Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.

I'm Ian Ehlert and I'm Dribbble's newest hire, working in development. I'm happy to say that my current location is sunny Davis, California! I just recently moved here from chilly Minneapolis, Minnesota mostly because I couldn't take another winter, but also in part because my girlfriend is going to grad school here. I'm thrilled to live here now because it rarely even gets below freezing and Davis's city motto is "Most bicycle friendly town in the world."

My one concern in moving to Davis was that I wouldn't be able to find any ultimate frisbee to play. Ya, ya, make your hippie jokes (Patrick) and say "it isn't a sport", but until you've tried it you have no idea how awesome it really is!

What are you working on?

I'm currently trying to finish up development on a project that I think of as "Buy this thing!" It's been a decent project to help me build up familiarity with the Dribbble platform, and working closely with Dan and Rich is a very rewarding experience (Rich did you catch that pun? Rich + rewarding ... I'll try to do better.). I have to say, the Dribbble codebase is quite pleasant to work with. There are parts that show its age, but the other developers really are top-notch and have kept it well groomed over the years. Props to Tristan and Patrick.

Tell us about your setup.

I'm currently rocking a 13" Macbook Pro. I haven't been using any peripherals since I started this job, and I'm actually enjoying it more. It's nice to be mobile when working remotely, so I can move around the apartment and outside to maximize my comfort. I do have a simple desk that I use the majority of the time on the second floor of my apartment that overlooks a farm field (and yet I'm still only a mile from a Trader Joe's).

As for software, I'm using Sublime Text 3 for my editor, iTerm2 for my terminal, Flint for chatting with my co-Dribbblers, and generally Chrome as my browser. I have a pen and notepad nearby that I write on once a week tops. It's gotten to the point where my handwriting is so bad that I don't even want to bother anymore and it just snowballs from there.

Choose a favorite shot from another player. Tell us why you dig it.

Globe by Dave Whyte

My first real project here at Dribbble was to add thumbnails to image attachments on screenshots. In doing so, I needed to test out uploading a lot of different types of images. For brevity, and to get used to the platform, I just found other people's shots and used those. Thumbnails for animated GIFs were giving me a bit of trouble and so I ended up searching for and uploading a number of those. When I searched for popular animated GIFs, Dave Whyte's work kept showing up.

I've always had a love for animated GIFs. I think it stems back to the days of Geocities and AngelFire when you'd throw some awesome flames animated GIFs on your website to make it cool.

We threw up this awesome flame animated GIF to make our website cool.

Anyway to cut a long story short (but still probably too long), I really enjoyed Dave's work in particular. There's something about a simplistic, perfectly-looped gif that just gets to me.

(Ed. Note: Thank you, Ian, for giving me the opportunity to point our readers to last week's Moonlighting, featuring the amazing Dave.)

September 29, 2014

Since Last Week

Dan went to England for Generate London, and to play the banjo. Physicist/designer Dave Whyte (beesandbombs) from England came to Dribbble for Moonlighting. Dave's Circle wave to the left.

Good Works

Roupala creates environmentally and socially responsible apparel. For every product they sell, they preserve 435 square feet of rainforest via the Rainforest Trust. Several Dribbblers have created tees for Roupala, including:

Jason Carne

Wells Collins

Brian Steely

Branded Shades of Grey

RB, a hand-painted monogram by Jennifer Lucey-Brzoza

Asker Kroen by Björg Helene Eggen/Designadet

Colin Fitz-Maurice, branded by Colin Fitz-Maurice

Dribbble API @ Work

Schedddule it by Bartek Zyglowicz. "You may now schedule your shots."

Plated

MN License Plate by Allan Peters, part of Jonathan Lawrence's State Plates Project

Central Plate No. 04 by Greg Anthony Thomas

Pixelated

Mega Man by Alex Griendling

Monster idle animation by Michael B. Myers Jr.

Launched

Codeante software project manager, posted by Benjamin Schmidt

I Spy

Paul Dunbar hid elements of spring in this Jack of Spades.

Five Alive

District 5 Web WIP by Nikki Clark

Trello's 5 Facts for 5 Million Users infographic by Fyza Hashim

Luis Liwag designed the latest tee for visual agency Column Five.

Covered

Photo album cover by Lienke Raben

Rachael Schirano Pricing Guide Cover by Breana Rose

Sneak Preview

New things are coming from Caleb Royce Lummer

Blasted

Jenya Tkach created this character for a pharmaceutical company.

For the Birds

Detail from a book page by Elena-Greta Apostol

Starstruck Starling by Janne Harju

Pippin in the mail-budgie by Melanie Matthews

Goose/Illustrative Icon by Simon, AKA simc

User Friendly

Tenant Management by Kingyo

Coaches' Picks

Linda Eliasen made "this weird video for recruiting at Dropbox."

Illustrated World Map that will eventually become a children's play mat, by Dominic Flask, AKA Dangerdom

Teams

Agile Infoways shared its work on Helpified, "an education curation platform where people can save, organize and share helpful learning resources with each other." Posted by Kenil Bhavsar.

Confetti branded the Nordic.js after-party. Posted by Johannes Edelstam.

Happylabs offered a new take on the old office shot; posted by Erkan Kerti.

TMBR's Anthony Harmon posted this identity for Rhombus, one of Roadhouse Brewing's signature IPAs.

Meetup Wrap-up

Nashville, Tennessee, September 6

Music City Dribbblers flew to the Flying Saucer for good times. Thanks to everyone who came out, and especially to organizers Derrick Castle (creator of chalk awesomeness above), Shane Helm and Ryan Slater.

De Pere, Wisconsin, September 9 

Huge thank you to Andrew Verboncouer for not only organizing the first-ever De Pere Meetup, but also for paying for the drinks! Thanks to Genius Labs for hosting. And thanks for the photo, Chris Schmitz!

Meetups

Memphis, Tennessee Tuesday, September 30, 7 p.m., Cafe Eclectic, 603 N. McLean Blvd. RSVP.

Oslo, Norway Wednesday, October 1, 6 p.m., Hyper, Maridalsveien 87. RSVP.

Buenos Aires, Argentina Friday, October 3, 7:30 p.m., Indicius, 1154 Darwin. Sponsored by Aerolab, Indicius, Dribbble and Shopify. Max. capacity 100. RSVP.

New Orleans, Louisiana Dribbble Meetup w/ CSS Dev. Conf., Monday, October 13. Details to come.

Edmonton, AB, Canada Tuesday, October 14, 8 a.m., Startup Edmonton, 10359 104th Street. RSVP.

Pensacola, Florida Dribbble Meetup! Analog for a Night, Tuesday, October 14, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., The East Hill Yard, 1010 N 12th Avenue, Suite 111. RSVP.

Manchester, England Wednesday, October 15, 6 p.m. - 7 p.m., SpacePort Manchester, 24/26 Lever Street. RSVP.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Design Philly Dribbble Meetup, Wednesday, October 15, 6:30 p.m., Garage, 1231-1233 East Passyunk Ave. Sponsored by Dribbble, Happy Cog, and Shopify. RSVP and follow @Dribbble_Philly.

Charleston, South Carolina Thursday, October 16, 6 p.m., eHouse Studio, 2 Race Street. RSVP information to follow.

Kyiv, Ukraine Thursday, October 16, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., MacPaw HQ, Horkoho 81. Sponsored by MacPaw. RSVP.

New York, New York Thursday, October 16, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m., SeatGeek, 235 Park Avenue South. Speaker: Cap Watkins, senior designer at Etsy. RSVP and follow @dribbblenyc on Twitter.

Tehran, Iran Thursday, October 23, 9 a.m. RSVP.

Moonlighting is an occasional series about designers who spend a significant amount of professional time not designing. Fit the bill? Email [email protected].

Dave Whyte: Physicist by Day, Designer by Night

This was supposed to be a Timeout with motion graphics designer Dave Whyte, creator of GIFs that mesmerize and astound. But when we discovered the amazing Dave also toils as a physics student, we decided to (nicely) shove him into the Moonlighting box, instead.

Dave first came to motion design as an undergraduate examining computational models. Now a PhD candidate at Trinity College in Dublin, Dave explores the tactile; specifically, foam. Come downtime, Dave's back to virtual reality, creating twirling, waving digital images. His art and his willingness to share his processes have people thumbs-upping all over the internet.

Below, Dave discusses points where his two interests meet as well as his process on Circle wave.

(Warning: Dave's art warps time. You think you're taking a quick look over lunch and next thing you know, it's tonight and your eyes are still stuck on the spiral. You are very relaxed. Also, late for dinner.)

Circle wave

My work in physics doesn't influence my design work too much. But a lot of my designs I couldn't have done without being comfortable with mathematics, which is down to having studied physics.

I suppose my scientific work and my art both stem from the same math foundation, as well as both being computational in nature.

My favorite shot of my own is Circle wave probably, because I think it has a tad more subtlety than what I usually do, but still has enough going on to warrant at least a few seconds of staring.

To make a GIF, I usually start with a particular motion in mind then, via preliminary pen/paper sketch (plus sometimes a bit of trigonometry) into Processing. I often share my source code (but sometimes like to keep it a little bit guarded).

Worm.gif by Mathew Lucas

When we sent Dave down the Timeout path, he identified a favorite shot from another player: Worm.gif by Mathew Lucas, above.

My favorite shot by another player is probably Mat Lucas's Worm.gif. The motion is fascinatingly organic but there's obviously some clever geometry at play. And that palette is just killer.

September 22, 2014

Since Last Week

We rolled out a new layout for projects and buckets (above left) AND released the Dribbble v1 API (above center)! Follow @dribbbleapi for updates. The original API will continue to be available until April 8, 2015. Woohoo to Tristan Dunn, who worked his programming arse off on this one.

Also, Fraser Davidson from across the pond came for a virtual visit in Timeout. Fraser's POW! above right.

Also, we've been bonkers excited watching the Dribbble Meetup scene explode all over the everywhere. To address the accompanying tidal wave of enthusiastic organizer questions, we've added Meetup FAQs to the site.

The Alphabet, as Interpreted by You

This week we're all about the alphabet, as conceived of by you and shared via Dribbble in the last six months. As with all Replays, these shots comprise neither a "best of" nor a compendium, but rather serve as a sampler.

You Font

Anders by Tom Anders

Ridewell by Kostas Bartsokas

Good News Sans by Kyle Wayne Benson

In-progress typeface by Jamie Clarke

Uni Sans by Fontfabric

NITRO by Hoefler & Co.

Brix Sans by Hannes von Döhren & Livius F. Dietzel/HVD Fonts

Arkiv by Timo Kuilder

Multi Headline Black Italic by Laura Meseguer

Retiro by Jean François Porchez (Typofonderie)

Companion League by Gumpita Rahayu

Shelley by DJ Sherman

Amsterdam Superstar by David A. Slaager (Fonts of Chaos)

AmpleSoft by Aakash Soneri

Voltage by Laura Worthington

You Letter

Let It Roll by Jillian Adel

TypeLimited 001, part of Joseph Alessio's TypeLimited project

The Brush Letter by Ken Barber

Just Have Fun! by Scott Biersack

Captain Josh Hill by Claire Coullon

SomeThing unused by JC Desevre

Humble Pie Type by Danielle Evans

Will Letter For Lunch by Lauren Hom

Practice Makes Perfect by Becca Clason

Kingdom by David Grimes

Wonderful Rejects by Melissa Ginsiorsky

buncha hand drawn words by Lauri Johnston

Smooth by Jessica Libby

full by Frances MacLeod

Guilty Pleasures by Anna Ropalo

Wednesday by Stephanie Schlim

Salvage Press printer's mark by Signal Type Foundry

Regular Display weights finished by Neil Summerour

Handlettered Logotypes 3 by Mateusz Witczak

Coaches' Picks

Chalk Lettering by Valentina Badeanu

Calendar/2015 by Szende Brassai/Adline

Works Badge by Joe White

Teams

Code School rebrand posted by Justin Mezzell, with new sans serif logotype created by Riley Cran

Timely! Fonts.com just released its new blog; posted by Piper Lawson.

Meetup Wrap-up

Spokane, Washington, September 4-6

Rocking times were had by all at The Bartlett's first Bartfest music festival and poster show. Congrats to co-organizer Karli Ingersoll and thanks to the Dribbblers who showed posters and showed up for the music. Summer Cannibals above left, Telekinesis above right.

San Francisco, California, September 11

Thank you Highlight for hosting last Thursday's San Francisco Dribbble Meetup! From organizer Kris Mendoza: "The meetup went great on Thursday night, we had an awesome turnout of ~65 designers come through. We demoed an app called Nearbbby that we have been working on for weeks for Dribbble meetups, where people can more efficiently see who is in the room (based on location) and what their work is like. We served delicious Moscow Mules from some commemorative stainless steel Highlight-branded cups we gave away, too."

Atlanta, Georgia, September 12

Thanks to Campus Bubble for hosting the latest Atlanta gathering. Campus Bubble Co-Founder and Designer Giovanni Hobbins reports "a lively meetup with pizza, beers and Dribbble swag." Thanks to organizer Liz Lara.

Meetups

Singapore Tuesday, September 23, 7:30 p.m., Zopim, 1 Commonwealth Lane #03-01. Sponsored by Zopim and buUuk. RSVP.

Portland, Oregon PDC Lettering Collective, Wednesday, September 24, 6 p.m. RSVP.

Dublin, Ireland Thursday, September 25, 7 p.m., Against the Grain, 11 Wexford Street. RSVP.

London, England Generate London Dribbble Meetup, Thursday, September 25, 6:30 p.m., The Last, Athene Place, 73 Shoe Lane. Sponsored by Badoo, Dribbble and Shopify. Interested in attending the conference? Use the code Dribbble20 when registering for a discount. RSVP.

Richmond, Virginia Thursday, September 25, 7 p.m., Cafe Caturra, 5811 Grove Ave. RSVP.

Seattle, Washington Facebook Seattle Dribbble Meetup, Thursday, September 25, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. RSVP using password FBDRIBBBLE for full event details.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands Friday, September 26, 5 p.m., Strangelove, Tweede Kostverlorenkade 68. RSVP.

Athens, Greece Pre-Digitized Dribbble Meetup, Friday, September 26, 7 p.m., Tzaferi 16, 16 Tzaferi. RSVP.

Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico Friday, September 26, 8 p.m., location TBD. RSVP.

Dhaka, Bangladesh Saturday, September 27, 6 p.m., Mainland China Restaurant, Floor No 15, Mymensingh Hwy, Uttara. RSVP.

Memphis, Tennessee Tuesday, September 30, 7 p.m., Cafe Eclectic, 603 N. McLean Blvd. RSVP.

Oslo, Norway Wednesday, October 1, 6 p.m., Hyper, Maridalsveien 87. RSVP.

Buenos Aires, Argentina Friday, October 3, 7:30 p.m., Indicius, 1154 Darwin. Sponsored by Aerolab, Indicius, Dribbble and Shopify. Max. capacity 100. RSVP.

Ahmedabad, GJ, India Sunday, October 12, 5 p.m., Himalaya Mall. RSVP.

New Orleans, Louisiana Dribbble Meetup w/ CSS Dev. Conf., Monday, October 13. Details to come.

Edmonton, AB, Canada Tuesday, October 14, 8 a.m., Startup Edmonton, 10359 104th Street. RSVP.

Pensacola, Florida Dribbble Meetup! Analog for a Night, Tuesday, October 14, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., The East Hill Yard, 1010 N 12th Avenue, Suite 111. RSVP.

Manchester, England Wednesday, October 15, 6 p.m. - 7 p.m., Spaceport, 24/26 Lever Street. RSVP.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Design Philly Dribbble Meetup, Wednesday, October 15, 6:30 p.m., Garage, 1231-1233 East Passyunk Ave. Sponsored by Dribbble, Happy Cog, and Shopify. RSVP and follow @Dribbble_Philly.

Kyiv, Ukraine Thursday, October 16, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., MacPaw HQ, Horkoho 81. Sponsored by MacPaw. RSVP.

New York, New York Thursday, October 16, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m., SeatGeek, 235 Park Avenue South. Speaker: Cap Watkins, senior designer at Etsy. RSVP and follow @dribbblenyc on Twitter.

Tehran, Iran Thursday, October 23, 9 a.m. More information to follow here.

Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews, five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Thanks to Fraser for being this week's interviewee.

Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.

I'm Fraser Davidson, co-founder of Cub Studio along with Ben Skinner. We are a small animation company based in London, UK. We create animated content for TV, the web and occasionally mobile.

What are you working on?

At any one time, we are working on 3-6 projects. Right now we are working with ESPN and the NFL on a couple of online animations due out this month. We are halfway through creating the graphics for the third series of BAFTA-Award-winning BBC show "The Revolution Will Be Televised" and creating a short explainer video for Raygun in New Zealand.

Choose a favorite shot of yours. Tell us why it's a favorite.

Right now, I think I like this test piece [POW!] for one of our upcoming pieces. We post a lot of test material on Dribbble as it's a great way to test the waters and gauge reaction for an idea. We love looping.

Tell us about your setup. What tools did you use to create the shot (e.g. hardware, software, pens, paper, blowtorch)?

This is not Fraser Davidson. This is Fraser Davidson's dog, Molly.

We use mainly After Effects and Cinema 4D to create work. This is a very simple illustration brought to life in After Effects with a few simple animated shape layers and strokes.

Choose a favorite shot from another player. Tell us why you dig it.

Going for a Spin by Latham Arnott

I really liked this piece from last month. It's a fantastic loop. Extremely simple at first, but the more you look at it, the more lovely detail and clever secondary motion you see. It has great character.

We're pleased to announce the beta release of the Dribbble v1 API. It's the culmination of a lot of thought and hard work. Hoots and salutes to Tristan Dunn for implementing this functionality and making it available to our community.

The v1 API contains a large set of endpoints covering most common read operations and supports authentication via OAuth, enabling long-awaited endpoints for writes. We know you can't wait to like and comment from your preferred mobile application. Or to easily upload a new shot without having to open a browser. And we're excited to see new applications that never occurred to us.

Some of you may be asking, "Didn't you already have beta API a long time ago?" Indeed we did—you can find the now-deprecated original API here. However, development on that version stalled and we never added much-requested support for write operations.

We released the original API with a lot of enthusiasum but not much of a plan. Unfortunately, supporting it while trying to grow a community, scale to meet our traffic, implement new features and establish revenue streams with only a two-person, one-developer team became a burden. As a bootstrapped startup with a mission to grow via earned, sustainable revenue, we learned some lessons.

While we're still a small organization, we've grown our developer team to four strong, enjoy the benefit of some hard-won knowledge, and have a much stronger identity as a business.

However, with great power comes great responsibility. In order to expand our API offering, it's crucial for us to establish boundaries for its use. Here are the broad strokes:

Please don't use the API to build a similar or alternate version of the dribbble.com website or community.

Please don't use the API to build a competing service to our revenue-generating offerings such as Jobs and Find Designers.

The Dribbble API Terms & Guidelines may always be a work in progress, but we've tried as best we can to spell out where we're headed and what uses of our data we reserve for ourselves. It's essential reading for anyone who wants to build with our API. If you still have questions after reading, please contact us.

With greater resources, a clearer vision, and a comprehensive set of guidelines, we're excited to revisit the API with a much broader offering and watch what the community builds. We're also happy to have an avenue for developers to participate and interact with our community of designers. And, unlike last time, we hope to mark v1 as a stable release soon, once the tires have been kicked and the bugs resolved.

If you're planning to give it a spin, be sure to follow @dribbbleapi for updates and contact us if you have any issues or questions. We'd also love to hear about any libraries or projects you've made—seeing the API get used is the most exciting part of releasing it.

September 15, 2014

Since Last Week

August Meetup numbers are in! More than 750 people attended 8 Meetups in 6 countries. Additionally, nearly 3,000 people attended the Dribbble-sponsored National Poster Retrospecticus shows in Boston, Brooklyn and Cleveland. Thank you to all the organizers and our Meetup Co-Sponsor Shopify!

In Timeout, we visited with Irish-born, France-based designer Charlotte Smith, illustrator and creator of luscious paper pops.

Good Work

Union & Fifth collects and sells used designer clothing online to raise money for non-profits who are doing good all over the U.S. Octopus Creative is tackling the site; posted by UI/UX designer Hannah O'Neal.

Atomic Comic

masti by Jan Trippner

Panda head & Murs by Gomez Illustration for a "webcomic for creative kids"

Mythy

NORSE GODS by Jacek Janiczak

Animated

Glug's logo, animated by Marcus Chaloner

Kit

The Watercolor Branding Kit from Callie Hegstrom, available via Creative Market this week

iOS UI Kit Actions v2 from Jérémy Paul; "This UI Kit for Photoshop in a form of an action set lets you create entire interfaces in a few clicks. One click on a button from the Actions palette equals one element drawn in seconds in your canvas."

UI

Murat Mutlu cleaned up the project view on the Marvel prototyping tool, which goes live this week.

Medieval Battle Game UI WIP by Melissa Pohl

We Like to Play with Fire.

Fire Loop by Yimbo Escárrega

Fire Burn by Justyna Frąckiewicz

Flame logo design symbol by Utopia Branding's Alex Tass

Coaches' Picks

Ready, Freddie? Big Secret created the yeti, The Prince Ink Co. printed the yeti. Heady.

Data Bliss Illustration by Young & Hungry's Mike Cummings for Schoolrunner.org

Teams

Casey Childs and Jordan Lump of HQ have been working on a social network analytics app.

Nitro's office is expanding. Alex Magee illustrated Dublin landmark Christ Church Cathedral to hang on new walls.

Meetup Wrap-up

Odessa, Ukraine, August 30

Odessa Dribbblers numbering about 250 gathered for the second Provectus-sponsored Dribbble Meetup. Thanks to organizer Tanya Kozovaya and to Alex Kukharenko for the pictures.

Amman, Jordan, September 10

Thanks to Sultan Shalakhti and Tariq Yosef for organizing the first-ever Amman Meetup. Hooray! And thanks, Tariq, for the photographs.

Meetups

London, England Tonight! London Skillshare's Dribbble Championships, Monday, September 15, 6:30 p.m., upstairs at The Railway Tavern, 15 Liverpool Street. Analog Playoff plus Photoshop challenge. RSVP.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Tuesday, September 16, 7 p.m., location TBD. RSVP.

Boston, Massachusetts Refresh Boston, Thursday, September 18, 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m., Fresh Tilled Soil, The Riverworks, Suite A310, 480 Pleasant Street, Watertown. Not a Meetup, but we're buying the pizza and hope Boston heads over to Watertown to hear Mat Marquis talk about responsive images. Sponsored by us, Fresh Tilled Soil and Future Insights. RSVP.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada DribbbleTO, Thursday, September 18, 7 p.m., BNotions, 106 Front Street E, 2nd Floor. Meet and greet with like-minded creatives and designers, BBQ & keg, swag, BNotions' version of Analog Playoffs, with two winners receiving Fifty Three Pencils. RSVP.

Dhaka, Bangladesh Saturday, September 20, 6 p.m., Mainland China Restaurant, Siam Tower Floor 15, Sector 3, Uttara. RSVP.

Austin, Texas Sunday, September 21, 4 p.m., The Ginger Man, 301 Lavaca Street. We'll be joined by some of our friends who will be in town for An Event Apart. Sponsored by Invision, Dribbble and Shopify. RSVP.

Singapore Tuesday, September 23, 7:30 p.m., Zopim, 1 Commonwealth Lane #03-01. Talk shop about design, play Pictionary, and enjoy free pizza and beer! Sponsored by Zopim and buUuk. RSVP.

Dublin, Ireland Thursday, September 25, 7 p.m., Against the Grain, 11 Wexford Street. RSVP.

London, England Generate London Dribbble Meetup, Thursday, September 25, 6:30 p.m., The Last, Athene Place, 73 Shoe Lane. Join the Generate team, your fellow attendees and Dribbble co-founder and Generate keynote speaker Dan Cederholm at the Generate London pre-event and Dribbble Meetup! Sponsored by Badoo, Dribbble and Shopify. Interested in attending the conference? Use the code Dribbble20 when registering for a discount. RSVP.

Richmond, Virginia Thursday, September 25, 7 p.m., Cafe Caturra, 5811 Grove Ave. RSVP.

Seattle, Washington Facebook Seattle Dribbble Meetup, Thursday, September 25, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Our Facebook Design team loves a good cocktail and meeting new friends so RSVP for a casual night of mingling, drinks and fun! RSVP using password FBDRIBBBLE for full event details.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands Friday, September 26, 5 p.m., Strangelove, Tweede Kostverlorenkade 68. RSVP.

Athens, Greece Pre-Digitized Dribbble Meetup, Friday, September 26, 7 p.m., Tzaferi 16, 16 Tzaferi. Gather in advance of the Digitized Digital Design Conference. Network, get to know each other, and shoot pool. RSVP.

Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico Friday, September 26, 8 p.m., location TBD. Type Wars, portafolio reviews, cerveza y buena charla. RSVP.

Memphis, Tennessee Tuesday, September 30, 7 p.m., Cafe Eclectic, 603 N. McLean Blvd. RSVP.

Oslo, Norway Wednesday, October 1, 6 p.m., Hyper, Maridalsveien 87. Pizza, beers, classic games, Analog Playoffs, warm-up games, a crash course with Thuy Gia Nguyen in prototyping with Quartz Composer/Origami, and classic inspirational videos. RSVP.

Buenos Aires, Argentina Friday, October 3, 7:30 p.m., Indicius, 1154 Darwin. Sponsored by Aerolab, Indicius, Dribbble and Shopify. Max. capacity 100. RSVP.

Edmonton, AB, Canada Tuesday, October 14, 8 a.m., Startup Edmonton, 10359 104th Street. Come join and meet others in the local design community for some real life show & tell, project sharing, and helpful tips and tricks to raise your design game. Did we mention free coffee?! RSVP.

New York, New York Thursday, October 16, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m., SeatGeek, 235 Park Avenue South. Join fellow NYC designers and dribbblers for a night of drinks, snacks, laughs, and more. Talk by Cap Watkins, senior designer at Etsy. RSVP and follow @dribbblenyc on Twitter.

Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews, five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Thanks to Charlotte for being this week's interviewee.

Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.

Hi! My name is Charlotte Smith, I'm an Irish-born graphic designer based in Paris. But hopefully, I will soon be moving to London. I studied type and lettering, then webdesign and quickly left that to the side. So for the past two years I have been working as a freelance graphic designer concentrating mostly on lettering and illustration.

What are you working on?

I'm lucky enough to regularly work for a french magazine called Paulette Magazine which has a very graphic approach. At the moment I'm working on the lettering for their summer issue cover, they never use ready-made fonts. I'm also working on a very exciting type project. I've been asked to create 6 to 7 different letterings that will go on a kids clothes line and that will be out this winter.

Choose a favorite shot of yours. Tell us why it’s a favorite.

Icecream. I've always been fascinated by paper art, and recently I gave it a go myself. I really enjoy dabbling at it in-between two projects. I was happy how the colours worked well together in this one. I have an obsession with pastel colours.

Tell us about your setup. What tools did you use to create the shot (e.g. hardware, software, pens, paper, blowtorch)?

My desk is completely covered in type sketches, paper volumes, inks and pens, so I usually work in the sitting room. For this shot, I sketched up my templates on Illustrator, printed them and then cut them out on pastel paper before sticking them together. The hardest part is to take a picture of them. I'm useless with a camera, and have no mini-studio, so I have to make do with my kitchen corner, paper taped together and a sunny day.

Choose a favorite shot from another player. Tell us why you dig it.

Pool fine art print by Karolis Strautniekas. I'm in love with Karolis Strautniekas's work. The atmosphere that she creates in each piece is beautiful, I find them very calming. The textures, details and simple colours in this piece are mind blowing.

September 8, 2014

Since Last Week

We trekked out to Washington state to Karli and Caleb Ingersoll's bar/cafe/music venue for the first-ever Bartfest, a celebration of music and design. No we didn't. But we wish we did. You'll wish you did, too, after reading last week's Timeout.

Good Work

Design collective 828 put out some new tees and is donating all proceeds to the American Red Cross; posted by Marc Ferrino.

Process

Kim Wouters took the time to explain why she did what she did with a recent app project.

On the Grid

Grid by Tommy Roussel

Lettered

PUSH LIMITS! by Marcelo Schultz

Patterns

File Sharing Pattern by Fabricio Rosa Marques

Gaming

KELPie Studio's Gregory Kozhemyak shared the icon for VOLV Interactive's DogFight game.

Backgammon app by Bogdan Maksimcuk for Provectus

Filip Slováček worked on the guess-the-name game Iconic with Flow Studio.

Branded

Tilín Cacao by Isabela Rodrigues

Schooled

Mark Geyer is offering an Interface Animations workshop at BlendConf 2014.

Alex Manthei, designer and poet, took Adam Whitcroft's Skillshare class Icon Design: Create a Cohesive Icon Set and made this icon set.

Apples & Pears & Apples & Pairs

Parentheses by Lydia Nichols

Pear Lute by The Half and Half

Apple product icons by Sergey Grigoruk for MacPaw

Knight pair by Nikola Durkan

Badass Lady Creatives

New over at Badass Lady Creatives:

Illustrator, designer and maker Emily Balsley of Madison, Wisconsin; to the left, "a sneak peek of a little self-promo somethin'-or-other"

Buenos-Aires-based illustrator and art director Vero Escalante; Marceline to the left

Coaches' Picks

Tycoon Playing cards, designed by Forefather in conjunction with Theory 11 for "The Millionaires' Magician" Steve Cohen

Floating House, a cardboard lamp by Vera van Wolferen

Teams

Zane David's working closely with a Crew Interactive client to refine displays for various types of data.

POW! Fraser Davidson shared this test from a client piece Cub Studio is working on.

Monitise Create's Ben Dunn has been exploring Android L for responsive desktop applications.

Ben Cline snuck us a peek at a Rally Interactive + National Geographic project.

Meetup Wrap-up

Charleston, South Carolina, September 3

From organizer Mike Hartwell: We kicked the night off with one of our favorite tools at the eHouse Studio office, SoundDrop. Loading up our playlist with mingle music, beers on ice and piping hot pizza, we were ready to welcome a fabulous 50 RSVP’d Charleston friends. With the usual Dribbble swag laid out, Jenelle Koles and Macy White made sure to check-in each guest with a warm welcome.

Seven lucky folks were picked at random from our “take a shot” rebound raffle. Charged with doodling a rebound of our "Tools of the Trade" illustration our guests put pen to paper. The remainder of the evening was spent brainstorming the tools that make our processes more efficient, productive, versatile, etc. Using the Post-it Note® method we where able to cluster similar apps, services & methods.

Now that our call has been answered comes the real work. Regardless of my personal fear of large crowds, it’s now my mission to sustain our newly founded community through sharing, educating and inspiring diverse Charleston creatives. Thanks to our sponsors Shopify, Dribbble, A Book Apart and eHouse Studio. Your contribution helped make our meetup a huge success.

Washington, DC, September 4

More than 200 Dribbblers gathered at Canvas. From the DribbbleDC feed: "Thank you to everyone who came out to the #dribbbleDC Meetup … huge turnout and a great time!" Thank you to organizer Martin Ringlein!

Meetups

De Pere, Wisconsin Tuesday, September 9, 7 p.m., Genius Labs, 421 George Street. Drinks, Laughter, Dribbble Swag & Design Contests. RSVP.

San Francisco, California Thursday, September 11, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., Highlight, 25 Kearny Street, Suite 300. RSVP.

Atlanta, Georgia Friday, September 12, 6:30 p.m., Campus Bubble, 323 Edgewood Avenue, Suite A. Beer, Ping-pong and shoptalk on a rooftop. RSVP.

New Orleans, Louisiana Saturday, September 13, 6 p.m., location TBD. RSVP.

London, England London Skillshare's Dribbble Championships, Monday, September 15, 6:30 p.m., upstairs at The Railway Tavern, 15 Liverpool Street. Analog Playoff plus Photoshop challenge. RSVP.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Tuesday, September 16, 7 p.m., location TBD. RSVP.

Boston, Massachusetts Refresh Boston, Thursday, September 18, 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m., Fresh Tilled Soil, The Riverworks, Suite A310, 480 Pleasant Street, Watertown. Not a Meetup, but we're buying the pizza and hope Boston heads over to Watertown to hear Mat Marquis talk about responsive images. Sponsored by us, Fresh Tilled Soil and Future Insights. RSVP.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada DribbbleTO, Thursday, September 18, 7 p.m., BNotions, 106 Front Street E, 2nd Floor. RSVP.

Manchester, England Tuesday, September 23, 6:30 p.m., TechHub Manchester, 26 Lever Street. Theme: Web design fashions. RSVP.

London, England Generate London Dribbble Meetup, Thursday, September 25, 6:30 p.m., location TBD. Sponsored by Badoo, Dribbble and Shopify. Interested in attending the conference? Use the code Dribbble20 when registering for a discount. RSVP.

Richmond, Virginia Thursday, September 25, 7 p.m., Cafe Caturra, 5811 Grove Ave. RSVP.

Athens, Greece Pre-Digitized Dribbble Meetup, Friday, September 26, 7 p.m., Tzaferi 16, 16 Tzaferi. Gather in advance of the Digitized Digital Design Conference. Network, get to know each other, and shoot pool. RSVP.

Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico Friday, September 26, 8 p.m., location TBD. Type Wars, portafolio reviews, cerveza y buena charla. RSVP.

Memphis, Tennessee Tuesday, September 30, 7 p.m., Cafe Eclectic, 603 N. McLean Blvd. RSVP.

Oslo, Norway Wednesday, October 1. More information to follow at Dribbblereit's Meetup page.

Friday, October 3, 7:30 p.m., Indicius, 1154 Darwin. Sponsored by Aerolab, Indicius, Dribbble and Shopify. Max. capacity 100 - RSVP now!.

By Susanna Baird

The Bartlett

228 W. Sprague Avenue, Spokane, Washington

This space is not an office.

A designer does not work in this space, but this space is the work of a designer. The designer owns this space. The designer's husband, a music promoter, also owns this space. Together, they designed this space.

They wanted to run a music venue. They wanted to promote local artists. They wanted to open a cafe. For two years, they designed and promoted and promoted and designed. Last year, they opened this space. This weekend, this space — their space — hosts a festival showcasing 33 independent musical artists on stage and the works of 33 poster artists on the walls.

This space is The Bartlett.

The Designer + The Promoter

Karli and Caleb Ingersoll grew up playing music and attending shows. Karli is a designer with broad experience and a special interest in designing for the independent music universe. Before marrying Karli, Caleb managed The Red Room, a 400-person venue in Kennewick, Washington. Caleb now promotes musicians at The Bartlett, the couple's Indiegogo-fueled dream-made-real, a 150-person all-ages music venue/cafe in a scruffy neighborhood on the edge of downtown Spokane hard by the Greyhound station.

The Outside + The Inside

Caleb and Karli split design tasks for The Bartlett. While he focused more on interior design and she focused more on branding, they both kept simplicity at the core of their efforts. To their minds, The Bartlett's design elements should serve as distinctive but understated backdrops allowing the musicians and poster artists to star as ever-changing focal points.

"All of our branding choices have been somewhat subtle and more mood driven, allowing for a blank canvas for the music and events we book," Karli told Dribbble. The Bartlett's facade is mostly black and white, with some wood accents. The cafe and the venue feature natural textures, brick walls, and hundred-year-old wood floors: lovely, strong, understated. "The idea is for all of it to get out of the way and almost be unnoticeable so that the focal point can really the the music."

As for technical design, the two wanted the space to attract bands that might typically appear at larger venues. "We had experience running shows in the past and were able to apply that into every little piece of the design ... the actual layout and selection of equipment," Caleb said. "I wanted a sound system that you might find in a 500-capacity music venue, but set in a smaller room."

The Logo + The Signage

When it came to branding, Karli wanted to maintain the simplicity of the interior while also creating something memorable. During the process, she worked her design muscles in new ways.

"I went through a ridiculous amount of design attempts before I really hit the nail on the head. It was the most laborious project I've ever done but through it I felt like I really grew." The work not only served The Bartlett, but also Karli's professional life. "I now see The Bartlett logo in creative briefs from clients, which gives me a great feeling of satisfaction knowing it has directed my career and style in a big way."

Bartfest the First

At The Bartlett, Karli and Caleb meld music and art and community. Bartfest, the first iteration of which kicks off Friday, takes those passions to a higher pitch. The three-day festival features 33 bands, each of which has been paired with a designer who created a unique show poster for their band. Featured designers include a number of Dribbblers. We've highlighted their work below. (If you're part of Bartfest and we missed you, we'll happily add you to our grid. Email [email protected].)

Row 1, L-R: Karli Ingersoll for Glasser, Mike Shamberg for Nite Jewel, Matt Bogue for Dead Serious Lovers

Row 2, L-R: Marcus Brown for Blouse, Jessie Spaccia for Scott Ryan, Caroline F Schibel for Joseph

Row 3, L-R: Brandon DeLauney for Young Magic, Tony Kuchar for Bearcubbin', Amanda R. Johnson for Shelby Earl

Row 4, L-R: Factory Arts for Von the Baptist, Danielle Davis for Wild Ones, Jessie Pierpoint for Telekinesis

Row 5, L-R: John Mujica for Normal Babies, Tiffany Patterson for Modern Kin, Kaarin S for Summer Cannibals

Row 6, L-R: Jacob Greif for Hundred Waters, Keely Honeywell for Pine League, Ryan Monson for Sea Giant

Thanks, Karli, for all of your help.

Visit Karli at Dribbble, on Twitter, and at karliingersoll.com.

Visit Caleb on Twitter.

Visit The Bartlett at thebartlettspokane.com.

Visit the Bartfest in person this weekend at The Bartlett and nYne, and online at bartfest.com.

September 2, 2014

Since Last Week

We rolled out a new Pro feature we think you'll like: You can now send analytics information for your shots, attachments, projects and so on to Google Analytics. (Shot by Patrick.)

Over at the blog, we took a Timeout with Sport Ngin's Frank Denney. (St. Joseph Baseball above center and Beast Mode above right)

Good Work

North American social media is blowing up with videos of people taking the Ice Bucket Challenge. An effort to raise awareness about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, the challenge has raised more than $100 million for the ALS Association and increased donations to other ALS-focused organizations as well. Several Dribbblers have taken the challenge.

Top Row, L-R: Chad Geran dumped the bucket, drew the bucket. Frame & Follie Design Co., co-owned by Jasmine Habart, accepted the challenge and donated to ALS Canada. Kyle Loaney designed a poster for beer to put in the ice bucket: Excelsior Brewing Co's Biscuit Pants Session Ale, part of Ales for ALS 2014. Ales for ALS supplies brewers with hops and ales to brew their own beers; in return, brewers donate $1 of every pint sold to the ALS Therapy Development Institute.

Bottom Row, L-R: IMM dove INTO the bucket (aka ice-fed Boulder Creek) and donated $100 for each of its 90 employees; posted by Sergey Grigoryan. Amanda Jaquin (nominated by Jennifer Ho) dumped her bucket on a fat cat and Dai Dietzmann dumped hers on a happy dog.

Launched

Folllowing from Ryan Scherf: "Folllowing connects with Twitter so you can find the Designers you're following on Dribbble, see if you follow them already and if you don't, gives you a button to do it all in the same UI."

Now I Know My A Bee Seas

A: Roy Veldkamp is "working on a new 3D typeface with multiple weights."

Bee: Bee Mine by Monster Riot

Sea: The Need to Think by Pierre-Paul Pariseau

Fonts

Industry Ultra by Mattox Shuler

User Friendly

A new home page by Barthelemy Chalvet, with thanks to Mason Yarnell for the "awesome sphere"

WordPress admin in progress from UltraLinx

Sketch and Final

Engage Sketch by Colin Tierney

Engage Interactive by Colin Tierney

We Will Have Nightmares.

Fan art by Michael Anderson for Image Comics' Southern Bastards

Raven by Gertruda Fon Narcco

Insane II by Jonas Soeder

Apps

Hive video conversation app; icon by Luis Lopez Grueiro

Peekd app-in-progress from Maria Panina/Plain White Co.

Walle, a finance app-in-progress from Alexander Zaytsev

Ha!

Toilet Bomb by Oliver Sin

Icons

By Artsiom "Grlmc" Hlushchenia for HappyMagenta's Foodie Yama, a "new old-school arcade game"

Free icons from Claire Paoletti

We Like Backpacks.

Misc Bags & Stuff by Matt Anderson

Munk Pack Bag by Motto, part of a larger branding project

Email designed by Meg Tiffany, part of Vera Bradley's Back to Campus fall promotion

Badass Lady Creatives

Up at Badass Lady Creatives:

Artist and designer Lynn Fisher's CSS drawing project A Single Div; A Single Div hobbit door to the left)

Designer Bethany Heck; 34Brand to the left

Coaches' Picks

August 26 was National Mac & Cheese Day in the U.S. Nate Azark whipped this up for a client.

Draught House 46th Anniversary (also comes in cream) by Lauren Griffin

Teams

Heyllow is working on a wireless lighting app; posted by Valik Boyev.

JellyJarCo launched Chroma for iPhone; posted by Eric Hoffman.

Mailjet shared some pages from its redesign; posted by Stigliani Alessandro.

Nutanix is growing and pushing its UI to a new level. From Jeremy Sallée: "This is a design I made a few month ago iterating on our existing pages (like tables and analysis) but bringing a more consistent clean/flat style for a better focus on this really complex UI."

Meetup Wrap-up

Brooklyn, New York, Saturday & Sunday, August 23 and 24

Credit Regina Kokoszka

Another good time at The National Poster Retrospecticus. Hope you NYC Dribbblers got out for it. Providence-area Dribbblers, your turn is next. See details below.

Dublin, Ireland, Thursday, August 28

The dedicated Dublin Dribbblers gathered once again at Against the Grain for beer and chatter. Thank you Donovan Hutchinson for the pic! The Dublin crew meets up quite often, so check back here soon for information on the next gathering.

Meetups

Thanks to our global Meetup co-sponsor Shopify.

Charleston, South Carolina Wednesday, September 3, 6 p.m., eHouse Studio, 2 Race Street. RSVP and follow Charleston Dribbble/dribbbleCHS on Twitter.

Washington, DC Thursday, September 4, 6:30 p.m., canvas co/work, 1203 19th Street, NW. Presentation by TJ Cichecki and Abe Garcia of Workhorse. Sponsored by canvas, Dribbble and Shopify. RSVP.

Spokane, Washington Bartfest! Friday-Sunday, September 5-7, The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague Ave., and nYne, 232 W. Sprague Ave. 33 bands + 33 artists (including many Dribbbler). Not a Dribbble Meetup, but we encourage area Dribbblers to go and meet up! Buy tickets.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Friday, September 5, 7 p.m., Frankford Hall, 1210 Frankford Avenue. RSVP.

Nashville, Tennessee Middle Earth Dribbble Meetup. All designers welcome, not just Dribbblers. Saturday, September 6, 4 p.m.-6:30 p.m., Private Pool Room, Flying Saucer Draught Emporium, 111 10th Avenue South. RSVP.

Pawtucket, Rhode Island Dribbble @ The NPR, Saturday, September 6, 6 p.m., Machines with Magnets, 400 Main Street. RSVP.

De Pere, Wisconsin Tuesday, September 9, 7 p.m., Genius Labs, 421 George Street. Drinks, Laughter, Dribbble Swag & Design Contests. RSVP.

San Francisco, California Thursday, September 11, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., Highlight, 25 Kearny Street, Suite 300. RSVP.

Atlanta, Georgia Friday, September 12, 6:30 p.m., Campus Bubble, 323 Edgewood Avenue, Suite A. Beer, Ping-pong and shoptalk on a rooftop. RSVP.

New Orleans, Louisiana Saturday, September 13, 6 p.m., location TBD. RSVP.

London, England London Skillshare's Dribbble Championships, Monday, September 15, 6:30 p.m., upstairs at The Railway Tavern, 15 Liverpool Street. Analog Playoff plus Photoshop challenge. RSVP.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Tuesday, September 16, 7 p.m., location TBD. RSVP.

Boston, Massachusetts Refresh Boston, Thursday, September 18, 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m., Fresh Tilled Soil, The Riverworks, Suite A310, 480 Pleasant Street, Watertown. Not a Meetup, but we're buying the pizza and hope Boston heads over to Watertown to hear Mat Marquis talk about responsive images. Sponsored by us, Fresh Tilled Soil and Future Insights. RSVP.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada DribbbleTO, Thursday, September 18, 7 p.m., BNotions, 106 Front Street E, 2nd Floor. RSVP.

Manchester, England Tuesday, September 23, 6:30 p.m., TechHub Manchester, 26 Lever Street. Theme: Web design fashions. RSVP.

London, England Generate London Dribbble Meetup, Thursday, September 25, 6:30 p.m., location TBD. Sponsored by Badoo, Dribbble and Shopify. Interested in attending the conference? Use the code Dribbble20 when registering for a discount. RSVP.

Richmond, Virginia Thursday, September 25, 7 p.m., Cafe Caturra, 5811 Grove Ave. RSVP.

Athens, Greece Pre-Digitized Dribbble Meetup, Friday, September 26, 7 p.m., Tzaferi 16, 16 Tzaferi. Gather in advance of the Digitized Digital Design Conference. Network, get to know each other, and shoot pool. RSVP.

Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico Friday, September 26, 8 p.m., location TBD. Type Wars, portafolio reviews, cerveza y buena charla. RSVP.

Memphis, Tennessee Tuesday, September 30, 7 p.m., Cafe Eclectic, 603 N. McLean Blvd. RSVP.

Buenos Aires, Argentina Friday, October 3, 7:30 p.m., Indicius, 1154 Darwin. Sponsored by Aerolab, Indicius, Dribbble and Shopify. Max. capacity 100 - RSVP now!.

Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews, five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Thanks to Frank for being this week's interviewee.

Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.

Hey! My name is Frank Denney. I'm a Korean-born, Iowa-raised designer currently living and working in Minneapolis, MN. About a decade ago I discovered that sports and design make me incredibly happy, and have been doing it ever since.

I am the senior graphic designer at Sport Ngin, where I design websites for sports organizations from youth to the pros. Prior to that, I was a bicycle and snowboard designer, digital artist, and dabbled as a freelancer for a bit.

What are you working on?

I'm currently working with a good friend and fellow Dribbbler, Joe Barrett, on a website for a town baseball club that I'm super pumped about. Giving a small town club team in Minnesota the same treatment that is usually reserved for a professional team really excites me. I'm also doing some branding work with an awesome group of breast-cancer-surviving ladies who are running a dragon boat racing team.

Choose a favorite shot of yours. Tell us why it’s a favorite.

Beast Mode is my favorite because it's one of my most recent. I tend to like newer things because every new project is an opportunity to remind myself that I'm still learning. This was a personal project of mine experimenting and focusing on a number of different lighting techniques, 3D rendering, and photo treatments.

Tell us about your setup. What tools did you use to create the shot (e.g. hardware, software, pens, paper, blowtorch)?

My home setup includes an iMac when I want to put my head down, a MacBook Pro when I'm multi-tasking, and a couple 15" monitors on reserve for really long projects. I use my Sketchbook for ideas and wireframes, and my Daft Punk action figures for when I lose myself to dance.

Choose a favorite player. Tell us why you dig them.

Every time I look at the work of Marie Bergeron I am in awe. The details, craftsmanship, and her unique style of portraying some of the most iconic figures is remarkable. (Marie's Daft Punk 2x Gauntlet Gallery above.)