Ampersand Industries » Cool things

Interesting site and navigation

Matt — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:18:05 +0000

NotCot is a great site for flagging up interesting products, projects and ideas around the web. It’s updated a lot and this means that there are now a large number of pages to navigate through. So many that it could be a bit unwieldy to navigate.

They’ve build a very compact, neat navigation of the pages that may take a bit of getting used to, but which strikes me as a very neat way of presenting so many links in such a small space.

NotCot page navigation

Font Aid

Matt — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:23:15 +0000

Font Aid is a project that brings together designers who create a themed font that is then sold to raise money for charity.

The fourth project created a font called Coming Together, full of great Ampersands and the money goes to Doctors Without Borders.

Another great showcase of Ampersands

Matt — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:26:15 +0000

Design Shack have a great article linking to various great uses of Ampersand. Perhaps getting close to Christmas is a good time to highlight some of the cool things on here!

http://designshack.co.uk/articles/typography/ode-to-ampersand-30-inspiring-images-of-our-favorite-character

Cool photoshop demo

Matt — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:58:18 +0000

When I used to teach Photoshop at Adult Education classes, people always used to think Photoshop could work magic, that you could cut people out of a photo and the background behind them would be suddenly visible. I blamed this on programs like Spooks that used to show this all the time.

Looks like Photoshop has finally caught up with Spooks, see this demo video.

We live in the future!

Via Kottke

Ampersand showcase

Matt — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:17:49 +0000

A great looking site after my own heart with a love of ampersands. This is going to go on my daily check list of sites:

http://ampersandampersand.tumblr.com/