Today’s post highlights the design of Forrykt.com by Johannes Gorset. A minimalistic one-page design uses the monochrome black and white palette, with a welcome addition of a fine pinstripe pattern across the large black horizontal section. An elaborate illustration of a temple is accentuated by a bloom halo that follows the direction gradient of the pinstripe pattern. The drop shadow effect around the hanging stippled ribbons adds a slight touch of three-dimensionality to the design.
The main content column uses a lot of white space and simple typography to format the snippets of last two featured articles. To keep all the content above the fold, a one-sentence summary set in italic is displayed directly below the article title. A simple footer features an embedded list of last tweets and a few general navigation / social links.
A few screenshots of Congress by Sunlight Labs running on Droid:
Image by Hello Mizu
Every month this series is tracking the latest design trends and collecting the best examples of modern web designs. Here is the list for May 2010 with almost 1700 links from 46 aggregator posts:
Flamingo is getting closer to the feature freeze for version 5.0. Today’s drop introduced a few changes that will affect the applications using Flamingo:
- Package rename. The published APIs now live under org.pushingpixels.flamingo.api package. All you need to do is just change the imports. If your code uses any of the classes in org.pushingpixels.flamingo.internal package, you will need to change it, or be prepared to have that functionality disappear at any point in time.
- The flexi-slider component has been removed from the library. It was the last remain from the days when Flamingo did not have a clear goal, and was an umbrella project for various components that i’ve written over the years.
- Compile time and run time dependency on Trident animation library.
And now i need your help. Download the latest 5.0dev drop of Flamingo, change the import sections of your classes, add Trident to the classpath and let me know if you find any bugs.
