Smashing Magazine compiled a list of this years top web designers and offered an insightful glance into their design process and all the sites they found influential in 2008. We’re thrilled that our very own website was chosen by Alen Grakalic of CSSGlobe and Templatica fame as one of his favorite sites of the year.
Check out the whole article for some year-end eye candy.
UPDATE We’ve been also featured as BuildInternet.com’s top site for jQuery navigation in 2008! Thanks for the heads-up Zach.
A project that wrapped up a little over a year ago is in the spotlight today! HUE HD Webcam is featured as today’s woot! item.
From name, brand, promotion & marketing concepts to software UI, to the actual product design itself, we had a blast with the unique opportunity to design the complete kit. We have posted about our work with HUE HD Webcam in the past, and some of its press (TIME & O (Oprah) Magazine features). So if you’re in the market for a unique gift for this holiday season with loads of personality, check it out! It looks like it’s a 2-pack of them, too. Oh, and for those who are thinking green this Christmas, follow my example from last year and use HUE (or any webcam) to send e-greeting video cards this year!
After making the trek out to Seattle last year for Typecon 2007, I figured I couldn’t miss this year’s festivities in good old upstate New York, so I decided to attend Typecon 2008 in Buffalo. I spent three days listening to renowned speakers discuss issues related to every conceivable aspect of typography. I was excited to briefly meet Armin Vit who runs Brand New, by far my most favoritest blog in the whole wide world. I was even more pleased later in the conference to later see him and Erik Spiekermann sitting next to each other, tapping away at their laptops.
Half the staff here at Carrot are quite “into” Twitter. The other half, not so much. @mikegermano made a tweet about the addictive nature of Twitter that caused an interesting discussion and the start to a big blog post comparing Twitter to cigarettes. While we work on the article we just wanted to have a visual of some Twitter brand smokes… 
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