October 6, 2014

Since Last Week

• After watching you all post links to everything from your apps to your T-shirts, we announced we’re adding a simple feature to neaten that process. Over at the blog, we introduced our newest Team member, developer and ultimate frisbee fanatic Ian Ehlert.

Good Work

• SHINE for Girls improves “girls’ math scores and sparks their interest in mathematics by utilizing an innovative method of formal dance training integrated with math instruction.” Carolyn Zhang is rebranding the nonprofit.

Launched

• Semplicelabs.com by Tobias van Schneider

Get on Board

• All you need is chalk by Tatyana Koidanov
• Windy by Juli Watson

Published

• What I Love About Movies, featuring an illustration by Sam Dunn

October is Drawlloween

• Drawlloween day 2 by Colin Gauntlett
• Drawlloween No 2 Zombie by Cecy Meade

October is Inktober

• Inktober 1 by Rachel Alderson
• #inktober 3rd October by Estela Gaspar
• Inktober14-Day01-Jason by Jason Yang

Have You Heard the One about the User Interface?

• Quote fem Martin LeBlanc/Iconfinder, poster by Startup Vitamins

Conceptual

• Btc Exchange concept by Natalie Berowska
• Pearhut Packaging Mock by Christine Lemar

GIFs That Keep on Giving

• Hidden Treasure Ending by Shinsuke Matsumoto
• Digitized_Ready Mag by Alex Frolov

Wish List

• Hip-Hip-Hippo by Carolina Buzio for Hype & Slippers' new venture, CardNest
• Food Hero Image Mockup Set by Darius Dan
• Build a Robot by Steve Parker, illustrated by Owen Davey
• Dingdong GUI Pack PSD by Aditya Nugraha Putra
• Main Street poster by Nick Visser

We Like to Learn.

• Snow Factory illustration by Juan Casini for SkyMath educational app

Invited

• Design Philadelphia Kick Off Invite by James Olstein, photo by Kyle Ferino; see below for details on Design Philly Dribbble Meetup
• Old mock invite by Eileen Tjan

Coaches’ Picks

• Swept Away by Emory Allen
• Playtimes NEVER over (30th TMNT tribute show) by Luke Flowers
• Wintertime On The Boardwalk by Matthew Sharack
• Design Gangs project by Matt Stevens
• Chillin’z 2 by Olga Vasik

Teams

• Meetup hit 1 million NYC members; posted by Shane Zucker.
• Sixbase's Alvin Thong has been playing around with the idea of a fantasy basketball stats app.
• Chad Thompson shared some of Yeah Haus's work for Blue Shield of California; illustrations by Michelle Ouellette.

Meetup Wrap-up

London, England, September 15

The London Skillshare/Dribbble Meetup hosted the “London Dribbble Championships 2014” in which people joined rapid sketching Analogue Playoff challenges. The crew voted their favorites and winner Sophie Rawlingson received a trophy. Says organizer Frazer Wilson, “It was great fun and will likely be repeated next year.”

Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 18

We served as pizza sponsor for our friends at Refresh Boston, who gathered for September’s Refresh Fresh Tilled Soil. Mat Marquis spoke about responsive images. Future Insights also helped sponsor the event. Next Refresh Boston takes place Monday, Oct. 27 and features Jason Pamental speaking about responsive typography. RSVP.

Singapore, September 23

The pictures say it all: Good times. Thank you once again to Singapore organizer Mike Chen, to sponsor buUuk, and to host Zopim. For more pictures, visit the Singapore Dribbble Group at Facebook.

London, UK, September 25

Dan joined Londoners plus Generate conference-goes for a Meetup at The Last. Thanks to organizer Jo Brakes and sponsors Badoo, Future and Shopify.

Athens, Greece, September 26

Woohoo Athens! The city held its first meetup at Tzaferi 16 (coworking space) in advance of the Digitized Conference. Thanks to organizer Konstantinos P. Penlidis for pulling it all together.

Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 3

Thanks to organizers Agustín Linenberg and Hernan Puente, and sponsors Aerolab and Indicius for throwing a great meetup in Buenos Aires. We were especially wowed by the gastro-swag.

Meetups

• Fairfax, Virginia
  Thursday, October 9, 6:30 p.m., Mhelpdesk at Mosaic District, 2910 District Ave. RSVP.
• New Orleans, Louisiana
  Dribbble Meetup w/ CSS Dev. Conf., Monday, October 13. Details to come.
• Edmonton, AB, Canada
  Tuesday, October 14, 8 a.m., Startup Edmonton, 10359 104th Street. RSVP.
• Pensacola, Florida
  Dribbble Meetup! Analog for a Night, Tuesday, October 14, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., The East Hill Yard, 1010 N 12th Avenue, Suite 111. RSVP.
• Manchester, England
  Wednesday, October 15, 6 p.m. - 7 p.m., SpacePort Manchester, 24/26 Lever Street. RSVP.
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Design Philly Dribbble Meetup, Wednesday, October 15, 6:30 p.m., Garage, 1231-1233 East Passyunk Ave. Sponsored by Dribbble, Happy Cog, and Shopify. RSVP and follow @Dribbble_Philly.
• Charleston, South Carolina
  Thursday, October 16, 6 p.m., eHouse Studio, 2 Race Street. RSVP information to follow.
• Kyiv, Ukraine
  Thursday, October 16, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., MacPaw HQ, Horkoho 81. Sponsored by MacPaw. RSVP.
• New York, New York
  Thursday, October 16, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m., SeatGeek, 235 Park Avenue South. Speaker: Cap Watkins, senior designer at Etsy. RSVP and follow @dribbblenyc on Twitter.
• Irvine, California
  Thursday, October 23, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., Envoy, 34 Tesla. RSVP links to follow.
• Tehran, Iran
  Thursday, October 23, 9 a.m. RSVP.
• Amsterdam, Netherlands
  Friday, October 24, 7 p.m., location TBD. RSVP.
• Chicago, Illinois
  Wednesday, November 5, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m., Bright Bright Great, 4131 West Belmont Ave. #D. RSVP.

Have a shot you’d like considered for Replay? Send the link to susanna@dribbble.com.

Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.

I’m Victor Erixon, and I’ve been designing for two years now. I currently work remotely for Articulate. I occasionally freelance for clients on the side of that.

What are you working on?

I’m currently working together with my colleagues on updating our entire brand and all of our products. And as I’m the only UI designer, that’s something keeping me very busy at the moment.

On the side of that I’m working for a company that is going to challenge Twitch in the video platform and community for gamers field.

Choose a favorite shot of yours. Tell us why it’s a favorite.

That’s a tricky one, I’m always loving the end product I’ve worked on. But I’ve this weird thing where I start to hate it after two weeks and I try to come up with something even better.

But my favorite has to be the Apple OS X redesign I did a few months ago. Not because it’s a solid redesign, but because of the eight-page discussion thread about it - most of the comments having an angry tone. I felt like I at least got people to care and talk about it. Even Khoi Vinh tweeted about it!

Tell us about your setup. What tools did you use to create the shot (e.g. hardware, software, pens, paper, blowtorch)?

I’m very simple when it comes to my setup. I see most designers having pretty decorated offices with multiple monitors. As I’m traveling much with my current job, I just need my 15” MacBook Retina and my Bose noise cancelling headphones. I normally work at home, in my office, at a café and even out in nature.

Choose a favorite shot from another player. Tell us why you dig it.

Board de Dash by Justin Mezzell

What’s not to like? Justin always has a very vibrant style that really attracts my attention. The coloring, the highlights and shadow details are just out of this world.

Find Victor at Dribbble, on Twitter, and at victorerixon.com.

October 14, 2014

Since Last Week

Last night Dan attended the New Orleans Dribbble Meetup at Cafe du Monde and today he spoke at CSS Dev Conf 2014. (Banner ad by conference organizer Christopher Schmitt above left.)

Back at HQ, we introduced the Charcoal Gameplan Notebook and took a Timeout with Victor Erixon. (Charcoal Gameplan Notebook center. Victor’s Apple OS Montauk right.)

Finally, September Dribbble Meetup numbers are in. 700 people attended 17 meetups in 8 countries. Additionally, we held “alternative” meetups at Bartfest in Spokane and at the National Poster Retrospecticus in Pawtucket, plus bought pizza for Refresh Boston's September Event.

Good Work

• For the third year in a row, Dribbble is sponsoring the Festivus 5K holiday-themed race here in Salem and for the third year in a row, Dan is branding the event. The race raises money for the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism.

Who Lives in a Search Engine Under the Sea?

• We received a congratulatory note for ranking high in Google Image Search. What search term helped us rise to the top? “Spongebob Wallpaper.” Thank you, Samuel Suarez!

Branded

• Airfy rebrand by Mariusz Ciesla
• Ivory Life branding by Amanda Cole
• Mims House branding concept by Jessica Levitz
• Business card concept by and for Cassandra Reid

Book ‘em

• Simple booking form from Tony Craig
• Desktop version of a booking app from Online Department

Celebrate A Beta

• Beta for Monodraw, a modern ASCII art editor for the Mac, launching soon; from Helftone, posted by Atanas Mahony

A Maze Ing

• Pastel optical maze by Kasper van Eerden

Patchy

• Katie Aronat designed these patches for a nonprofit that will focus on removing plastic from the ocean.
• Eddie Bauer patches by Curtis Jinkins

Jazz Trio

• Piano: Hands by Ross Bruggink
• Drums: Drums Master App by Kovalev Slava
• Bass: Stand Up Bass by Chris Fernandez

Smooth Landing

• Messenger Watch UI/Landing Page by Ehsan Rahimi
• New site by Mik Skuza

OK Go Fish

• O Kingdom by Jonathan Black
• K mark by Ivan Bobrov
• Go Fish by Claire O’Brien

You Blinded Us with Science

• DNA by Handel Eugene
• Flight videos deconstructed by Eleanor Lutz for her science illustration blog Tabletop Whale
• Concept for a birthday invitation at a space museum by Jessica Yeo

Because I’m Appy

• Snowball Android app from Squanda “shows your messages from Facebook, Snapchat, WhatsApp, SMS and all your other social apps in ONE place.” Posted by Daniel Burka, who created the identity.
• In-the-works finance app for kids and teens from Free Association
• Graph animation showing music intensity levels, posted by Maria Clara Irisarri for an app she is developing with Alex Deruette

Dribbble Trivia

3 out of 7 Dribbble Team members live or have lived in Carolina: Elizabeth (Greenville), Rich (Chapel Hill) and Susanna (Durham).

• UNC Charlotte Homecoming poster by Britt Davis
• Stamps by Katherine Rainey

Badass Lady Creatives

Featured over at Badass Lady Creatives:

• Chicago-based Cuban-American designer and artist Veronica Corzo-Duchardt; Screenshot 2014 04 11 16.03.00
• NYC designer and illustrator Simone Noronha; Cruising

Teams

• Mads Burcharth shared a small crop of a project he’s working on for Campaign Monitor.
• Nick Kumbari's playing around with Leavingstone's logo.
• Ramotion's talking app icon design in reference to its work for HoursTracker.
• Stephen Parker invited us to check out Squarespace 7.

Meetup Wrap-up

Toronto, Canada, September 18

Thank you to the all the Dribbblers who showed up at BNotions for the latest Toronto Meetup. Thanks especially to organizer Farah Kanji. Keep your eyes open, Toronto, for more Meetups in the future!

Austin, Texas, September 21

ATX Dribbble didn’t have time to take a good photo, but they did have time to make FART ART. Dribbble Meetups … they’re a gas! (Just teasing you, Austin. We love you, and our kids love your f-art.) Photo credit: Sam Kapila.

Dublin, Ireland, September 25

No photo from Dublin. They have a good excuse: They’re gearing up to celebrate their 1-year Dublin Dribbble Meetup-versary! More info. forthcoming.

Seattle, Washington, September 25

Good times. No pictures. (Sense a theme this week?) Huge thanks to Facebook for hosting, and to organizers Mike Finch, Jeremy Loughnot, and Marissa McCombs. Special shout-out to Marissa, who helped us mere days before her wedding.

Dhaka, Bangladesh, September 27

From organizer Nuruzzaman Sheikh: “We wanted to arrange a friendly Dribbble Meetup so we could spend some time together, share some working experiences, our backgrounds and journey in this fabulous field: Designing. And we really spent a good and warming 3 hours together, having some Chinese dishes at one of the interesting auto-rotating restaurants in town. We’ve a relatively small amount of Dribbblers and many of them lives outside of the capital. One of the designers attended the meetup from outside the capital and he sacrificed two days of time for the meetup. In short it was really a fun meetup and all of us agreed to arrange something like this in more bigger way in the coming year.”

Many thanks to Nuruzzaman and his fellow organizers Tanveer Junayed and Abdus Salam, as well as everyone who attended. Extra-special thanks to Abdus, who traveled one day each way to get to/from the meetup. We appreciate the dedication!

Meetups

• Pensacola, Florida
  TONIGHT! Dribbble Meetup! Analog for a Night, Tuesday, October 14, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., The East Hill Yard, 1010 N 12th Avenue, Suite 111. RSVP.
• Manchester, England
  Wednesday, October 15, 6 p.m. - 7 p.m., SpacePort Manchester, 24/26 Lever Street. RSVP.
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Design Philly Dribbble Meetup, Wednesday, October 15, 6:30 p.m., Garage, 1231-1233 East Passyunk Ave. Sponsored by Dribbble, Happy Cog, and Shopify. RSVP and follow @Dribbble_Philly.
• Kyiv, Ukraine
  Thursday, October 16, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., MacPaw HQ, Horkoho 81. Sponsored by MacPaw. RSVP.
• New York, New York
  Thursday, October 16, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m., SeatGeek, 235 Park Avenue South. Speaker: Cap Watkins, senior designer at Etsy. RSVP and follow @dribbblenyc on Twitter.
• Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Thursday, October 23, 7 p.m., Publitas.com BV, Zeeburgerpad 5, 1018 AH. RSVP.
• Irvine, California
  Thursday, October 23, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., Envoy, 34 Tesla. RSVP.
• Nice, France
  Thursday, October 23, 7 p.m., Café des Chineurs, 1 Rue Cassini. RSVP.
• Tehran, Iran
  Thursday, October 23, 9 a.m. RSVP.
• London, England
  Designers and Developers MeetupFriday, October 24, 6:30 p.m., The Vinyl Factory (entry via Phonica Records), 51 Poland Street. Sponsored by Badoo and Three Beards. RSVP.
• Charleston, South Carolina
  Wednesday, October 29, 6 p.m., eHouse Studio, 2 Race Street. Speaker: Matt Stevens, designer, illustrator, and creative tinkerer. RSVP details to follow.
• Portland, Oregon
  PDX Lettering Collective, Wednesday, October 29, 12:30 p.m., San Sai Japanese Grill, 539 NW 21st Street. RSVP.
• Chicago, Illinois
  Wednesday, November 5, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m., Bright Bright Great, 4131 West Belmont Ave. #D. RSVP.
• Melbourne, Australia
  Wednesday, November 12, 6:30 p.m., Redbubble, Level 3, 271 Collins Street. Speaker: Blaz Robar. Sponsors: Redbubble, Temple Brewing, Vino Mofo, and Bourbon Street Soul Food. RSVP.

Have a shot you’d like considered for Replay? Send the link to susanna@dribbble.com.

Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.

I’m Barthelemy Chalvet, a French webdesigner based in Paris. I’m founder of AgenceMe and lead designer at Xola.com. AgenceMe is a small agency created 3 years ago and it’s composed of three people, Marine/Designer, Florent/Front Developer, and I. I also created two companies with my awesome team CodeNgo: Sponseasy.com (a sponsorhip deck builder) and Clapp (a new way to create and join short story movies with your friends or even total strangers. )

What are you working on?

Currently I’m working on new tools and themes for Wordpress software. For a few months we’ve stayed focused on improving our theme and I can say, it was challenging. Since the theme is launching, we’re working on new amazing plugins for this theme, I can just say it will be really cool to use. It was fun to create many different layouts and styles with the same software, it’s incredible all you can do.

Choose a favorite shot of yours. Tell us why it’s a favorite.

Gravedona

I choose this shot because it’s one of my most recent works. I’m fascinated by how it’s easy to build this page without any skills of development and design. Anyone can create something in few minutes. I also love to create animated shot for Dribbble, I think it’s easier for developers and other people to understand my design toughts.

Tell us about your setup. What tools did you use to create the shot (e.g. hardware, software, pens, paper, blowtorch)?

I use differents tools and software to create my Dribbble shots, and for our clients. First, I create many, many different versions of the UX design. I love this first step of work, it’s so creative. Once it’s approved by the client, I like to use the Slicy app to cut all icons and images in Retina in few seconds. Then I animate everything with After Effects.

Choose a favorite shot from another player. Tell us why you dig it.

Infographic by Jonathan Moreira

Infographic for ThoughtSpot. I love all Jonathan’s work. His work is unique, it’s always so inspiring.

Find Barthelemy at Dribbble, on Twitter, and at agence-me.com.