Say100 – What used to be VideoEgg and Six Apart is now a sexy and sought-after vertical media company, Say Media. And what a a better way to show off the modern media company’s power than by showing off its most creative customers? Say100 is “a list of influential voices in 10 content verticals, including food, entertainment, style and technology.”
Remember the awesome looking women’s online lifestyle mag xoJane we reviewed last month? Its creator Jane Pratt is one of the Style voices featured on Say100. Other fields featured on Say100 include food, parenting, business (marketing expert Seth Godin is also a customer), tech, design, travel and others. So what do the “voices” on Say100 mean, exactly? Each field’s primary professional has his or her own page with a bio paragraph and links to his or her respective website and social network venues. See Foodie expert Amanda Hesser’s page as an example.
So what’s in Say100 for you? Even if SayMedia’s mighty powers of advertising haven’t managed to impress you, at the very least you will find great sites in numerous categories. In addition, each channel includes a post feed on the right side of your screen which offers high quality updates from relevant blogs and sites. You can’t argue with great content.
DeMilked – A design milking magazine? Say what? DeMilked extract (as in the verb, milk) “the world’s most creative minds and make you tasty inspiration cocktails by mixing industrial design, technology, concepts, advertising and a little bit of web design.” DeMilked certainly lives up to this promise. It is filled with inspiring, beautiful and surprising posts, all accompanied by hi-res photos and insightful commentary.
My favorite post currently on DeMilked -even though I’ve already seen this elsewhere on the Web a couple of months ago- is 40 Clever and Creative Bus Top Advertisements. Can you guess who is the brand behind these cool pop-up ads? Click the images below to see the post in full and find out.
Pixlr – For those of you working in the graphic design and photography fields, Pixlr is a bliss. The company calls itself “an online cloud-based image tools and utilities” provider serving “both non-professionals and professional users with editing needs…”
Pixlr offers a wide collection of services, all centered around photo editing including the classic photo editor, and the Pixlr-O-Matic Facebook app that turns your Facebook photos into retro snaps. These are but two features Pixlr offers. Finally there’s a free alternative to the costly Photoshop software (although limited in features compared to the latter).
Svpply – Back in December I talked about a cool tagging site called Nuji, where users roam around the Web and tag things (can be fashion, interior design and more), share their finds with others and find inspirations from other users’ tagged items. Svpply offers the same overall service, with additional slight improvements. With Svpply you can filter ‘finds’ by selecting product category, gender and price.
Follow users who have the same taste as you do, and get you-centered product recommendation, plus the direct path to buying that dress, sofa or artwork. To start off, why not explore the site’s Editor’s picks?
Happy hunting.
Olioboard – Since I had a hard time putting into words what Olioboard is about, here’s the site’s own description: “Olioboard is an easy and intuitive application for creating digital mood boards. It is also a community of interior designers and creative thinkers coming together to share inspiration and offer feedback.” Even if you’re not a designer but have an eye for aesthetics and a great looking decor, collect you favorite items, color swatches, fabric samples and other virtual items, and use them to create your own moodboard.
Each post is a moodboard someone has shared, and you can get lots of design ideas from each by scrolling down to the ‘get this look’ section. Here’s an example (click the image to get all the details).
If you’re a professional in the interior design field, make the most out of Olioboard. Get in touch with the community, take part in contests and even shop for your clients. What a wonderful source of vibrant and colorful inspirations for the home!
Lipton Infinite Trip – Enter the never ending, whimsical world of Lipton tea and explore a mesmerizing visual story that varies by your choice of tea. At the site’s homepage, select your Lipton of choice (from Earl Grey, Or Sri Lanka, Bombay Tchai and others), and see what happens. You will have to use your mouse’s scroll button to go forward or backward in your tea’s story.
I picked Lipton Exclusive Collection’s Bombay Tchai and this is but one image of the illustrated journey I was thrown into.
Come and join Lipton’s mind blowing experience, and make sure your volume is on. The music is just as enchanting. Although I seriously doubt Lipton’s tea is as powerful as this visual experience, this marketing card is most certainly the way to go.
Style Me Pretty – This chic A to Z wedding spot is “a style savvy wedding resource devoted to the modern bride” that covers “everything from gorgeous real weddings to up and coming vendors and seasoned pros in the invitation, floral, fashion and photography industries.”
This Weekly Blog winner is loaded with inspiring and practical wedding day ideas which will certainly come in handy in taking some of the planning stress off of your shoulders. To give you an example, I went straight to Style Me Pretty’s Real Weddings section since I feel the best ideas come from tried and tested weddings. Here’s a wonderful gallery example, brought to us by the Utah Wedding at Conrad Ranch.
For more great wedding resources online visit our Wedding MiniFaves page.
Juxtapoz – Celebrating the various visual art forms, Juxtapose magazine -a Weekly Blog winner- is a beautiful website celebrating exceptional street art, illustrations, tattoos and graffiti. To truly discover what Juxtapoz magazine is about you have to see it. The magazine’s video section would be my recommended first stop. That’s where I found the video below, Kinect Graffiti by Jean-Christophe Naour.
Creative Criminals – This cool Weekly Blog winner scored lots of attention and therefore made it into this week’s Weekly Faves lineup. Creative Criminals is a website created by Rindert, Bert and Sander “who all have links to the advertising world.” This means the ads you will see here (in both poster and video forms) are filtered, top-notch advertisements from all over the world that are bound to impress and call to action. Want an example?
Here’s an innovative ad concept by a natural insecticide company in Thailand:
Company: Shieldtox
Agency: Euro RSCG, Bangkok
Country: Thailand
Baubauhaus – Here’s a daily design feed you should RSS to even if you’re not a creative professional or artist. Appreciating aesthetics and creativity is just as important and therefore, Baubauhaus is a must site to add to your web favorites list. The site provides a daily dose of inspiration in design, illustration, photography, fashion and in all else art-related.
Exploring Baubauhaus made me feel like I could spend my entire day browsing the gorgeous and inspiring entries on the site. The site’s content is not always original, but it sure is pretty! Here’s my favorite photography post, Green by Linda Lundgren.
Porsche Everyday – When a powerful brand wants to increase exposure even more online, in a way that’s part seductive, part informative, what does it do? It creates a sexy website that doesn’t take ‘no’ for an answer. That is exactly what Porsche Everyday is about: an interactive, media-rich website offering close encounters with the luxurious sports car.
Explore videos and stories of proud Porsche owners, see the various models and even build your own. Although this website’s main purpose is advertisement, Porsche did a great job at maintaining the famous car’s prestigious reputation.
InspireFirst – Sources of inspiration for creative professionals are an absolute must. InspireFirst recognizes this ever-increasing demand in creative ideas and had thus created “a global source of inspiration for all the web-designers, painters, photographers, architects, fashion designers, and representatives of all the other professions and hobbies, where inspiration is treated as an integral part of a creative production process.”
The creative showroom-like platform makes InspireFirst an easily accessible and appealing spot for resourceful ideas in design and art, which is not an obvious thing online. It usually takes long, in-depth research to find worthy inspirations, and now InspireFirst has facilitated this mission. To give an example, here’s an image from the post Illustrations by Florian NICOLLE: