Ashley Teague

Finally a post that doesn’t involve photography. While I (clearly) can’t get enough good photos, today I found a post on some new and well-designed logos. Check out the full thing here and fingers crossed I can find some good web design inspiration for next week…

National Geographic is having it’s annual photo contest, which in itself is always a showcase of the most amazing photographs and photographers. Boston.com however has selected some of the thousands of entries to share with us, and in turn I’ve picked some of my favorites. These photos are unbelievable and I highly suggest you go look at the rest – these people are seriously talented and the pictures are much more impactful when they are shown at a larger size than my blog allows.

It’s photo central over here! I’ve been really getting into photography lately and even have a few fun shoots lined up, but these travel posts make me want to do more than portraits. Today’s post is all about Venice, the city surrounded by water (or something like that). While the gondolas and houses lining the river are beautiful, I chose the photos that showed a different side of the city (how gorgeous is this first photo?!). Of course some gondola pics were too pretty to pass up, but if you are interested in more make your way over to Abduzeedo.

Kind of a random subject, but I stumbled on to a post showcasing some great pictures of the desert. While there was a surprising lack of camel pictures, there is a good variety of shots and some really well done ones at that. Check out the full post here.

Some really great photos here taken with super fast shutter speeds that are pretty amazing. Not sure if I have the equipment to do this kind of work but it definitely makes me want to try! Go check out the rest on the original post, but these were my favorites.

From Communication Arts of course.

How great are these ads from Land Rover? Featured today on Communication Arts, I think these are just spot-on perfection (and almost a Where’s Waldo? type fun).

Another round of photos from my “take pictures weekly” challenge. It’s turning out to be harder than I thought, simply because I want each photo to be amazing and with the winter weather in Chicago, I’m not getting out as much as I had hoped. I made a goal to not take pictures of the dogs every week, so this is the only week Remi will be featured for the next year (not to say there won’t be photos, just not for the particular assignment). All I have to do is promise a bone and she’s a perfect model.

CommArts has another great post about Nordstrom’s redesign of their hosiery package. I adore the throw back style and old fashioned typography, and if I was a lady who wore hosiery then I’d be tempted to purchase these simply for their awesome packaging.

Great post from You the Designer on website design and how purty some really are. I don’t really have much more to say other than check out the other ones at the site (there are 40 in total) and how totally gorgeous is that cupcake site?!