Entries by dawsondesign

Eight reasons the new National Trust website is funkier than yours

Here are some cool bits from its new responsive website. Ghost buttons… Lovely stuff. Ghost buttons are becoming more and more common. This nice bit of CSS helps every call to action look a little more elegant and means they don’t have to detract as much from content. …including the best call to action ever written [...]

Day of the Dead

    A little late but still brilliant from henriquezlara.com

300 years before Pantone

  In 1692 an artist known only as “A. Boogert” sat down to write a book in Dutch about mixing watercolors. Not only would he begin the book with a bit about the use of color in painting, but would go on to explain how to create certain hues and change the tone by adding [...]

New Design Talent

Great to see the new design talent at the opening of the Salford design show last night ‪#‎CreateSalford‬  

Incosmetics 2014 Hamberg

3 days of stand build compressed into 5 seconds (enough to make you feel sea sick..!) if only it was that quick and easy. Croda had a great show with some wonderful feedback on the stand which is always nice… http://www.dawsondesign.com/standbuild/