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Tyler Thompson Detailed on: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 06:26PM
Tyler Thompson Detailed on: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 06:26PM The Squarespace Blog
When I re-designed Squarespace for the most recent time, all our sub sites ( blog, manual, service etc. ) got the same style. Consistency is great, but when it comes to our blog, I felt like it needed to be something special, we started as a blogging software company for crying out loud.
The blog with the default Squarespace site styling, boring as hell.
At the time, we were really proud, and still are, of the fact that our software is handmade in New York City. I remembered seeing some great old designs and pictures from 1920's New York and thought that would be a great place to start for some inspiration. Below is what I came up with, you can actually still see it live at www.blog2.squarespace.com
Old is new again, but not really who we are, started out loving it, ended up hating it.
I started out doing some quick mock ups of some more clean, modern styles to really showcase the content. I wanted the design to be very clever, not over designed. I really like sites that use design in creative ways that don't jump out and slap you in face, they rather, buy you a drink or two, take you to dinner then after you are halfway through dessert you realize you kind of like them.
Paper first folks, paper first. sed nulla vestibulum eget dictum mi feugiat. Pellentesque vel odio neque, a scelerisque orci. Mauris fermentum lectus eget neque consectetur non lobortis velit tincidunt. Nunc elementum nisi ac ligula commodo rhoncus. Suspendisse ac libero ligula, id facilisis ipsum. Vivamus quis nibh eget nibh volutpat lacinia. Suspendisse potenti. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Vivamus magna metus, gravida vel
After a few failed comps, I decided to clear my head and start from scratch. Got out some paper and my trusty PITT pen and started sketching. I wanted a clean timeless look. I stripped out all the fluffy graphics and tried to convey a really flat, technical, detail rich design, you know, like Squarespace :) I have always been wanting to do a grayscale design with yellow as the highlight color, don't ask me why, but I was and still am in love with that color scheme.
My origninal Photoshop comp
The current live version, with different comment and author styles and postioning
I made a handful of tweaks from the above comp to the actual live site you see today and had one lovely fight with ie on a few things, but other than that this site still remains one of my most favorite designs to date.
The blog with the default Squarespace site styling, boring as hell.
At the time, we were really proud, and still are, of the fact that our software is handmade in New York City. I remembered seeing some great old designs and pictures from 1920's New York and thought that would be a great place to start for some inspiration. Below is what I came up with, you can actually still see it live at www.blog2.squarespace.com
Old is new again, but not really who we are, started out loving it, ended up hating it.
I started out doing some quick mock ups of some more clean, modern styles to really showcase the content. I wanted the design to be very clever, not over designed. I really like sites that use design in creative ways that don't jump out and slap you in face, they rather, buy you a drink or two, take you to dinner then after you are halfway through dessert you realize you kind of like them.
Paper first folks, paper first. sed nulla vestibulum eget dictum mi feugiat. Pellentesque vel odio neque, a scelerisque orci. Mauris fermentum lectus eget neque consectetur non lobortis velit tincidunt. Nunc elementum nisi ac ligula commodo rhoncus. Suspendisse ac libero ligula, id facilisis ipsum. Vivamus quis nibh eget nibh volutpat lacinia. Suspendisse potenti. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Vivamus magna metus, gravida vel
After a few failed comps, I decided to clear my head and start from scratch. Got out some paper and my trusty PITT pen and started sketching. I wanted a clean timeless look. I stripped out all the fluffy graphics and tried to convey a really flat, technical, detail rich design, you know, like Squarespace :) I have always been wanting to do a grayscale design with yellow as the highlight color, don't ask me why, but I was and still am in love with that color scheme.
My origninal Photoshop comp
The current live version, with different comment and author styles and postioning
I made a handful of tweaks from the above comp to the actual live site you see today and had one lovely fight with ie on a few things, but other than that this site still remains one of my most favorite designs to date.
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