A Little Refresher
The previous logo on tumbledry meant absolutely nothing (just like the ones before it). I still liked the way it looked but … as a recognizable widget, it really accomplished nothing. Additionally, I had been using the first take on my color scheme since about July of last year. As a side note: indeed, taking a design from the drawing board to live takes about 6 months. Well, it takes me sixth months because I have all these other hairbrained ideas on the journey. That said, I noticed some serious problems with the color scheme. The ratios of green to red to blue were completely wrong. Half the time things looked like a bad version of Christmas with some blue tossed in. So, a concerted (minor) graphic refresh was undertaken.
The presence of red has been reduced markedly, such that greens and blues now dominate the colors. Furthermore, I’m especially happy with the logo. I’ve had this idea for the logo rolling around in my head for about three years (previously rendered using square brackets), and I’ve sketched it out at various points along the way. Here’s a version from 2003:
This time, it all finally came together. The logo is a stylized representation of the tumble dry icon. It is set in ITC Kabel, and because it is composed of typographic characters, it has the advantage of being able to be rendered in plain text, thus: {o}. Anyhow, a simple tilt at an angle, followed by an application of the wicked worn look, and there you go!
Finally, I accidentally threw these graphic refresh files online a bit early, so there’s no navigation at this point in time. Have no fear, tumbledry will regain navigation in the next couple of days. In the meantime, hope you all like it.
Comments
Dan McKeown
Wow, that icon certainly is wickedly worn. I have to be honest, I was confused by the changes when I visited tumbledry this morning but was pleased with the explaination that I found immediately. Thank you Alex for keeping us up to date and always doing your best to make tumbledry the best.
Nils +7
I think Alex should make a sister site named MachineWash. It could be a playground for his wild website building fantasies that finally become whole once they are TumbleDryed. Do you like the pun there? I do.
Amber
Okay so yesterday when I looked at TumbleDry, I was like, “what is Alex talking about? His design is the exact same.” Today it is completely different! I know there is a term for that where the internet saves the images or whatever… Anyways, I like it!
Nils
Today is also the first day that I see the changes Alex mentioned in this post. And thank god, because I thought that I was missing out on the next gen TumbleDry. That’s not something I’d like to miss out on.
Alexander Micek
I still like the MachineWash idea. Oh, and Nils you are also the first person to experience the new navigation. I just added it about 7 miunutes ago … and you visited 5 minutes ago! Oh, and the times are off by one hour because the server hasn’t changed for daylight savings time. Hope this doesn’t boggle anyone’s mind.
Justin Gehring
Nils: you should start a site called Machine Wash… Then Alex has Tumble Dry, you would have Machine Wash, I have Rinse First… We’d have our own little cult of Laundry based websites. To bad Alex and John didn’t jump on the laundry bandwagon… It might have been fun.
Alexander Micek +1
I should purchase “premanent press.”
Justin Gehring
pre-man-ent?
Might want to bring back the spell check, check box.
but other than that… yeah, that would be an easily brand-able name ;-).
Mykala +1
Ha! Perhaps if you could get your “to” vs. “too” usage right, we’d be more apt to take correction from YOU, Justin.
Ok, ok. That was uncalled for. I apologize. It’s all in fun. I did not intend to start a grammar war. A grammwar?
Nils +1
Ahh, if only I were versed in the ways of HTML, web-based coding languages and actually had enough creative potential to throw together a wicked site deserving of the MachineWash title….. Alas, I am but a man. This task must fall into the hands of someone loftier than I, and that man is Alexander the Micek.
John
There was a band wagon. Were horses pulling it? They should be careful, band wagons are usually pretty heavy. They could get stress fractures.
Justin Gehring
My point was, I didn’t think to check my post over because the box reminding me to do so was not there…
Nils: who needs to know how to program or design? They make something called movable type for people like you :-). Or if your looking to get a starting point, talk to Alex about getting a copy of his old code (if he still has it), I figure if he was willing to share it with John, why not you.
I should stop commenting… I just create havoc.
Alexander Micek
John, if the bandwagon was being pulled by horses, and that bandwagon contained wet, damp or otherwise moist laundry, then the contents would need to be tumble-dried before being safe for bandwagon towing. Ok, this comment is quickly making no sense. Returning to normal town …
Justin, we always need a little Rinsefirst here, and I know what you meant by the proof-reading box. :) Carry on with the commenting!
Nils
John, band wagons can be pretty dangerous. I would just stay away from them altogether to be on the safe side. Maybe someday I will try throwing together a website, but I just don’t know if I could ever be satisfied with something of my own creation. I always find that I quickly grow tired of it or see it as inferior to other, better works.
Keep Tumblin’,
Nils
Richard
nils, that’s the cool part about websites, if you grow tired of it you can always change it. the trick to overcoming how inferior you feel your website is, is to compare it more often to really crappy websites, or browse through some people’s myspace pages and mock them in your mind for not having a “real” website.
keep tumblin’ tumblin’ tumblin’ (Chris Berman stlye), richard