Miralize.com» Showcase – Miralize Design http://miralize.com The blog/portfolio of Sean O' Grady Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:31:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Designrlink and Topofthenet http://miralize.com/showcase/designrlink-and-topofthenet/ http://miralize.com/showcase/designrlink-and-topofthenet/#comments Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:19:32 +0000 Sean O'Grady http://miralize.com/?p=923 Part of being a desinger/developer is filling open gaps in the market. The sites I’m building wont. Well not exactly. There are dozens of CSS Gallleries, and honestly I’m quite sick of them. The problem is, what else are you supposed to do with a domain called Topofthe.net? A toplist? I think not.

The other one is also user-generated, but its about collecting links to decent design/development articles. The thing I like about these sites is that they have the same design. I’m a sucker for uniformity. Am I hinting may be the start of a long list of sites , maybe turning into a network? I dont know.

I’ve been working on these sites sporadically over the summer. But things are taking a turn for the better, I’m working faster than usual, and I hope to have at least one online before the weekend is over.

Why? First and foremost, I’m doing this to fill out my portfolio (which is coming soon, honest!!). Secondly its gonna make me think, something I havent had to do since mid-May. And thirdly I’ve domains to use and I’ve been putting it off for much too long.

For more info about either follow their Twitter Accounts @topofthenet and @designrlink

Stay tuned. :)

]]> http://miralize.com/showcase/designrlink-and-topofthenet/feed/ 1 Best Designs Of The Week 1 http://miralize.com/showcase/best-of-the-week-1/ http://miralize.com/showcase/best-of-the-week-1/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:00:52 +0000 Sean O'Grady http://miralize.com/?p=862 Every week I’m gonna post 10 or so amazing design finds. Contrary to what you may think, this is for both you and me. This way I can archive the sites I like and look back on them when I have a creative block. But mostly it’s to show some really cool designs to the people who read this blog. So enjoy!

Made By On

Made By On

Edenbee

Edenbee

R U 4 Children

R U 4 Children

Base 6 Design

base6

Insic Designs

insicdesigns

Havoc Inspired

havoc

Echo Brand Design

echo

Jan Pivonka

pivonka

Atebits

atebits

JukeBook

jukebook

If you want to be included in next weeks collection, please leave a comment or use the contact form.

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]]> http://miralize.com/showcase/best-of-the-week-1/feed/ 0 100 Amazing Design Blogs To Subscribe To http://miralize.com/showcase/100-amazing-design-blogs-to-subscribe-to/ http://miralize.com/showcase/100-amazing-design-blogs-to-subscribe-to/#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:52:47 +0000 Sean O'Grady http://miralize.com/?p=823 Feedly , which extends Google Reader's capabilities and adds Twitter and FriendFeed integration.]]> It is important as a designer, to build a good collection of resources for constant inspiration. That’s why I subscribe to over 100 feeds all in different areas of design, to gain see a wide spectrum of knowledge. My RSS reader of choice used to be Google Reader, but more recently I’ve been using the Firefox addon Feedly , which extends Google Reader’s capabilities and adds Twitter and FriendFeed integration.

Here I will list over a 100 blogs for you to subscribe to, but also I will give a link to download all the URLs so they can be easily imported into Google Reader.

  1. Net Magazine – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  2. A List Apart – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  3. A Propostional Structure – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  4. AETUTS – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  5. Alex Buga – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  6. AndySowards.com – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  7. Beautiful Life – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  8. Coda.co.za – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  9. Soh Tanaka – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  10. Spoon Graphics – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  11. Build Internet – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  12. Catswhocode – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  13. cdharrison – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  14. Cgtuts – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  15. Chris Wallace – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  16. Colorburned – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  17. Contrast – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  18. Crane Factory – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  19. Creattica Daily – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  20. Css-Tricks – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  21. Cult Foo – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  22. Design Daily News – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  23. Design Pitstop – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  24. Design Reviver – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  25. Design Swan – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  26. Design Your Way – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  27. Designeezy – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  28. Design M.ag – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  29. Desizn Tech – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  30. Digging into WordPress – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  31. DigMo! – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  32. Directory for Designers – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  33. DG Labs – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  34. Flashtuts – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  35. For the Lose – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  36. Smashing Apps – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  37. Freelance Switch – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  38. Fuel Your Coding – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  39. Function – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  40. Hack WordPress – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  41. Hongkait – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  42. In The Woods – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  43. Insic Design – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  44. instantShift – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  45. Jack of All Trades – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  46. jQuery for Designers – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  47. jQuery Style – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  48. Just Creative Design – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  49. Jeffrey Way – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  50. Learning jQuery – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  51. Lee Munroe – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  52. Line 25 – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  53. Logo Design Love – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  54. Lovely Package – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  55. Marco Prljic – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  56. Massa Moda – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  57. Ben McRedmond – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  58. Mayhem Studios – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  59. Minervity – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  60. Nettuts – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  61. Nometech – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  62. Noupe – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  63. Outlaw Design – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  64. Pimp My WordPress – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  65. Pineapple Magazine – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  66. Pro Blog Design – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  67. PSDFan – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  68. PSDTuts – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  69. PSDVibe – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  70. PS Hero – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  71. Six Revisions – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  72. Smashing Magazine – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  73. Speckyboy – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  74. SpyreStudios – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  75. Swedish Fika – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  76. The Design O’Blog – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  77. The Netsetter – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  78. The River Current – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  79. The Ux Booth – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  80. The Dieline – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  81. Tutorial9 – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  82. Tutorial Magazine – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  83. Vandelay Design Blog – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  84. Vectortuts – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  85. Veerle.Douh – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  86. Web Design From Scratch – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  87. Web Design Ledger – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  88. Web Design Dev – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  89. Web Designer Magazine – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  90. Web Designer Wall – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  91. Web Standardistas – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  92. WebAir Blog – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  93. WebPageFx – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  94. Woork – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  95. WPazo – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  96. Wp Candy – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  97. Yen Design – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  98. Yoast – Blog URL – Subscription URL
  99. You the Designer – Blog URL – Subscription URL

For those who are wondering where the 100th blog is, you’re already on it :P

I reccomend all of these site for anyone looking to build their library of decent helpful and informative blogs..

To import it directly into Google Reader, please follow this link. You can also download the OPML file here

Subscribe to my RSS feed for more great articles.

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I really like the ninja illustration I did for this site.I think it adds something different to the site. The whole site is designed to be fast-loading, with only two images, and a heck of a lot of CSS, I got it to look like this. Pretty impressive, huh? :P Haha I’m proud, but im not that arrogant.

Hope you enjoy it,

Sean

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Media Virgins

I love the new style of Media Virgins, the home of first year at Tipperay Institute, for several reasons. Its design is simple yet not boring. People often say dark grey is the new black, but the dark grey I think adds elegance and professionalism to this new design.

Probably my favourite piece of this design is the sidebar with alternating shades of grey, that make it eay to stand out. This was also one of the most tasking pieces as I had to fiddle around with WordPress for a bit to get it to work properly. The footer also is a nice piece. I was never that much of a fan of content in footers but once I finished it I was surprised at how well it fit in with the sites flow.

This one is quite a different project than ones I usually work on. I administer this blog, and so I had the creative room to do what I wanted and I am pretty pleased. I had the chance to brand this design over several social networks to add conformity and continuity to the site. I had done several other designs beforehand (4 to be prescice), yet I was never happy with how they had turned out. Im pretty sure that this one will last for a bit and I hope people enjoy it. There is still several kinks to work out so if anyone see’s any, please comment below.

[Media Virgins]

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Its called colourfull (no, not a typo) and i was just bored so i decided to make it

Download here

]]> http://miralize.com/showcase/wallpaper-pack-colourfull/feed/ 0 CSS Gallery List http://miralize.com/showcase/css-gallery-list/ http://miralize.com/showcase/css-gallery-list/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:51:14 +0000 Sean O'Grady http://psdetails.com/?p=70 Usually bloggers often choose to list some of the best designs in their blogs but I think I’m going to try something a little different. Rather than post a list of the “Best” in my eyes I will give you a list of the galleries often voted by thousands. These sites are a must-see for inspiration. Undoubtebly they have sometimes been abused by ripping but they help none-the-less

]]> http://miralize.com/showcase/css-gallery-list/feed/ 0 Great CSS Designs http://miralize.com/showcase/10-great-css-designs/ http://miralize.com/showcase/10-great-css-designs/#comments Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:55:42 +0000 Sean O'Grady http://psdetails.com/?p=8 Here are a few designs I think deserve to be up there with the Hall Of CSS Fame

1. Alex Buga

Love this design. Colours are great. Great use of transparency and the wooder bg is very modern these days.

2. Design Snack

Lovely blend of colours has a very organic and enviornmentally aware feel to it

more to come soon

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