In my wonderful years of working as a web designer, I’ve developed a habit of browsing visuals and keeping a snapshot of anything intriguing. I snapped colors, color names, shapes, the immaculate use of white space, serifs, uncanny headings, scientific drawings, book covers, vintage packaging (hell, vintage anything!) and even hand-made circus illustrations circa 1910.
I’m not a classically-trained designer, so from the day I naively decided to be one, I rely primarily on observation and the readiness to stumble really badly and then gain a hopefully steadier footing. As a result, I rarely need to visit web design galleries prior to a design work. It’s good because all the snapshots I’ve kept steers me away from directly copying another designer’s work. It also brings about passive inspiration – the type that burns in your brain for quite a while before you find some good use for it. I’m happy to report that I have six years’ worth of this happy design baggage.
Here is a collection of a few design and UI work I did at Stampede for May 2011. Instead of a full shot, I’ve chosen bits and pieces that matters to me when observing another web designer at work.
In a way, this is a monthly design journal, but I do hope anyone who shares the same peculiarities as mine would find these useful for their very own visual musings.
![lcc lcc](https://stampede-design.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/lcc.jpg)
![lcc-2 lcc-2](https://stampede-design.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/lcc-2.jpg)
![ems ems](https://stampede-design.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ems.jpg)
![ems-2 ems-2](https://stampede-design.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ems-2.jpg)
![stat stat](https://stampede-design.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/stat.jpg)
![stat-2 stat-2](https://stampede-design.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/stat-2.jpg)
![nsc-1 nsc-1](https://stampede-design.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/nsc-1.jpg)
![fj-2 fj-2](https://stampede-design.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/fj-2.jpg)
![fj-0 fj-01](https://stampede-design.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/fj-01.jpg)