Showcase: Viget Labs Inspire Blog
Now that’s an accurate title. I already like the Viget Labs website, imagine my glee when I stumbled upon this particular Viget blog.
Apart from the really useful content (it went into my feed reader almost immediately), this blog sports a design I fell in love with at first sight.
It’s made to look like an aquarelle, so every little detail of it is made in this context. Brilliant. Check out some of my favourite details below.
It suffers from lack of contrast between foreground and background in some places, but I’m more than willing to forgive Viget people. I don’t know if this blog is new or old, I just stumbled upon it and it’s great.
Kudos!
July 30th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Great blog and design as well. But this technique -i think- is nailed by this guy
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/
July 31st, 2008 at 3:57 am
Thanks, Sugar! Glad you like the Viget site and our design blog. We have fun writing for it. It’s not too old — we launched it (along with our other niche blogs) in March of this year (http://www.viget.com/blog/all_new_vigetcom_and_blogging_strategy). I hope you’ll join the conversations over there and comment when you feel so inclined … Thanks again.
July 31st, 2008 at 6:04 pm
@Gerasimos
I don’t think it’s exactly the same style. Yes, it looks handwritten and all, but what I liked in Viget Inspire was the *subtle* reuse of the same design principles everywhere.
WebDesignerWall was nice for a start. But it’s gotten stale and tiring, in my humble opinion.
@Brian
Great job guys. I’ll be sure to check out your other blogs too.
August 5th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Great designs, I agree. Funny enough, I first saw this at Web Designer Wall who featured a nice little interview with Viget: http://www.webdesignerwall.com/general/viget-labs-the-blog-series/
Just found your web musings btw… yeah I dig it, keep up the hard work.