Some recent new (or updated) sites

[Marty Walker]

http://www.illustratorsaustralia.com/

http://quidditas.com.au/  - built for http://www.nomadgraphics.com.au/

http://nineteen23.com.au/ - built for http://www.nomadgraphics.com.au/

http://www.eatdrinkroyal.com/ - built for http://jacinabox.com.au/

http://selkiemoon.com/ - built for http://www.nomadgraphics.com.au/

http://everypicture.com.au/

http://otoshimono.org/ - design by the artist

http://lovida.com.au/ - design by http://monodesign.com.au/

Cheers

Marty

[Macrura]

all really nice, very original designs - you've been really busy!

[Marty Walker]

Cheers!

[MarcC]

Great job, Marty. I too really appreciate your aesthetic. The IA site is my favorite that you've made, and I was thinking we could commission Levent Efe to do a cutaway illustration of your web designer brain for your forum profile photo. Just an idea

[Marty Walker]

Thanks Marc. I'd just get him to sketch some scrambled eggs

[Jan Romero]

I love all of those, but I can’t help but notice how the dignified feel of Eat-Drink-Royal is undermined by the neglected typography. Consider installing SuperSmartypants if you have no control over the texts.

Here’s a comparison of the original and two versions with curly quotes and hairspaces:

Gotta love that her name is Quayle. It’s far too rare that typefaces get to show off a capital Q, arguably one of the most beautiful characters in any font.

[LostKobrakai]

I would suggest that, too. Espeacially for a "Royal" enviroment correct quotes and dashes should be used. While the use of different quotation (”“»«, not " ') marks is mostly an aestetic choice, besides cultural preferences, there are rules to the useage of different dashes and the hyphen. I can only speak for the rules in the german speaking area, so I would suggest looking at local rulesets. But for Germany the version with hypens would be plain wrong, at least from a typographical standpoint, and the one with the large dash would also be a suboptimal choice, but not as bad as a hyphen. The large dash is kinda old school and originates in price labels like so: 19.—€. That would be the historicly correct usage, while it's todays usage is more like a gimmicy eye-catcher.

[gurkendoktor]

are you sure about using the "wegstrich" / "geviertstrich" ( — ) in prices? usually i thought it's the "halbgeviertstrich" / hyphen ( – ) … i'm curious, it's been a while for me since i last had practical application for this knowledge.

[LostKobrakai]

Prices are it's historical use. Today it's mostly used to "enhance" the typographical look. Also "halbgeviertstrich" or "ndash" is not a hyphen. A hyphen is a "bindestrich" and even shorter. (— vs. – vs. - )