Opening our hearts to good quality design
By Jon Bergan (@jonbergan) in Workflow » Starting Out
Hi folks! I’d like to introduce you to DesignLuv – a blog about design, development and being your own boss.
It’s our absolute pleasure to finally unveil this fabulous new project of ours to the design community. We’ve been planning this little gem for a few months now and we’re really beaming with excitement to watch it finally get off the ground. Now we just have to give it some time to really stretch its wings and find its place within the blogosphere.
To put it simply, our goal for DesignLuv was to develop a customised blog targetted specifically at exceptional designers, intelligent developers and true entrepreneurs who have a passion for what they do. We wanted to share our knowledge, meet new people and help act as a glue between all of the members within this wonderous community. For that is truly what it is and we love interacting with each and every one of you.
To cater for these three unique types of people, we established three core areas to our new site:
- Creative – for the perfectionist web and graphic designer
- Input/Output – for the passionate and gifted web developer
- Workflow – for the new age web-based entrepreneur
Although we’re still young, we’ve tried to push a few fresh posts into each of these categories to hit the ground running, but we are still finding our feet. So, with this in mind, we do ask that you give us a little leeway while we get some quality content up and in place for you guys. We do have a number of awesome posts coming up that should go live within the next few days so keep your eyes peeled!
I have to be honest here though. For those of you who know us (yeah, we get around), you may notice some of the new posts found on DesignLuv from our own personal blogs. We wanted to remove our personal blogs anyway and we needed content for DesignLuv so it was a natural decision for us to simply transfer some of our best posts across to this new platform. I’m sure you’ll all agree that this is the better place for them. A place they can truly call home.
Now, seeing as we’re all about design, I thought I should also touch on my inspiration for the fresh layout on DesignLuv. Recently I have had a bit of an interest in 2D design and the use of 2D design on the web. As I was up one night browsing around, I came across a presentation by Leesean Hepnova titled “Its cool to be flat”. This video really struck a chord for me and solidified my beliefs in 2D design on the web. With a strong vision in mind, I pushed forward with the design of DesignLuv trying to keep as much as I possibly could flat. What you see is the outcome. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this new approach/layout.
Where to from here? Well, we need to start getting some quality content to our new readers and extending our hands to young bloggers, designers, developers and entrepreneurs the world over. We really want to get to know you guys. So, please, say hello to us on Twitter (@jonbergan and @marnieb), friend us up on Facebook (Jon, Marnie and our DesignLuv Fan Page) and come inspire us in our DesignLuv Flickr Group. Go on. It’d be awesome.
So, with a new site, a new vision and a whole lot of hustling to get done, we’re keen to get our hands dirty. Really dirty. And we’d love it if you all would join us for the ride.
Welcome to DesignLuv!
Jon Bergan and Marnie B
By Jon Bergan
Jon is a passionate web designer, developer and blogger from Australia. Whilst online, he spends most of his time knee deep in PHP code or blogging about good design and business advice. He is also a movie lover, guitar fiend, tea drinker and serial entrepreneur.
You can find out more about Jon here or you can catch up with him online via Twitter or Facebook.
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Okay, so I know I’m posting a comment on my own blog but wow … it really is a great feeling to see this go live! I hope you guys absolutely love it and get in on the action!
Rgds,
JB
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Can’t wait to see some new content! Hope it all runs to plan. And I also hope I’ve put the correct details for my Gravatar.
Drew
@Drew,
Oops, doesn’t look like it buddy! You got the stinky old generic Gravatar icon
Ouch.
Thanks for the compliments though! We’ve got big plans for DesignLuv so fingers crossed!
New content should be up early next week – stay tuned!
JB
Maybe it’s worked now?
Either way. Looking forward to it!
Congratulations on the site Jon!!! I really like the idea, the concept and design. Flat designs are coming back into style so you should be leading the pack with this. Nice job!
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Thanks Justin! Yeah, we’re really happy with the way it turned out. Now lets just hope everyone else loves it just as much as we do
Flat designs definitely are coming back into the game and I think its a good thing. We all got a little crazy there with them gradients!
JB
Thanks Justin. We’re really excited about it.
Great stuff guys! This is awesome and some great posts to kick off with as well. Can’t wait to see what’s to come
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Thanks Anth! Always good to know you’ve got our back
We should have some new content up early next week and you’d be silly if you thought I wouldn’t flood you with notifications about it.
Hehe.
Thanks again mate!
JB
TeeHee. I’d expect nothing less
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Congrats Jon and team! Your blogs have always been a must read for me and I’m looking forward to more great stuff here
Cheers, Kirsty
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I just had to leave a comment to join in with your contagious enthusiasm and congratulate you on an excellent site design and content concept. Really looking forward to what you will be doing here. I’ve already subscribed to your RSS feed, followed all your Twitter accounts and will find other ways to stalk you…er…I mean, connect with you too. Looking forward to reading and sharing your posts! Cheers!
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Hey Brian,
Thanks so much for your subscriptions and luv! Its definitely awesome to see such support at such an early stage. DesignLuv is young but its looking promising already. Hope you enjoy the posts!
JB
Thanks for the support, Brian! And for the stalk…
Thanks everyone for the congratulations! We’re stoked about the new blog and really excited to be back in the blogging game. Hope you enjoy the posts.
looking forward to your 1’s & 0’s guys, love the design, the typekit use is great.
Thanks, Kiryn… We got sick of fiddling with sIFR.
Haha. What she said! sIFR was really driving me nuts and Cufon is only so good also. Typekit really hit the nail on the head for me. If you haven’t tried it out, you should definitely give it a spin!
JB
got a few projects comin up that could do with some nice font use…
Definitely give it a try! I hear Fontdeck is meant to be good too (http://fontdeck.com/) although it hasn’t launched yet to the public.
I did have some issues with Typekit rendering fonts (some jagged edges) but after playing around with it for awhile, it came good.
Let me know once you’ve done some – would love to see them!
JB
This is really a Great article…
Thanks for sharing this