Although Nova looks incredible with a fresh install, you have the option to customize the nearly 50 appearance option, choose from the standard two column layout and a HD-wide one column layout, enable infinite scrolling, customize colors, upload background and header images, choose between the dark and light styles, and much more.
See what’s new in Nova 1.5.1 - May 09, 2012
Minor updates and fixes
See an example of Nova 1.1 using the HD layout perfect for 720 pixel wide content. The demo also features the new infinite scrolling option for a continuous feed of posts. Have questions about Nova 1.1, infinite scrolling or the HD layout? Email us at nova@stylehatch.co or send us a message on Twitter - @stylehatch.
Using the Appearance color values and image uploads you can create a unique version of Nova for your site. Depending on the style you’re going for you can toggle the dark/light modes for variations in the icons, date blocks, and post backgrounds.
Nova supports a variety of 3rd party social features including the Facebook like button, Twitter’s tweet button, short URLs, Disqus comments, your Twitter feed, and more planned in future versions.
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Illustrator Saiman Chow
Working with Buck, Saiman Chow created hundreds of illustrations for Nike’s presence at the World Basketball Festival in NYC. The illustrated branding included more than 40 basketball players, pop legends, dozens of sneakers, NYC iconography and additional elements to capture the spirt of the basketball festival.
In addition to the branding Buck also produced, in collaboration with Cypheraudio, this Nike 30 sec TV spot and a number of other eye-candy bits that covered Times Square.
(Source: ventilate.ca)
“Creativity is a double-edged sword. The more ideas we have, the less likely we are to stay loyal to one. So the creative mind ends up jumping from idea to idea, and none of them happen. There is no correlation between how great an idea is and the likelihood of it happening.” —
— Scott Belsky
Founder and visionary of Behance and the 99 Percent.
(Source: Newsweek)
The Art of Momentum: Why Your Ideas Need Speed -
Excellent article from 99 Percent on the importance of momentum, carving out consistent time to work on your project, and working on your project every day.
It’s just like Newton’s First Law of Motion: The tendency of a body in motion is to keep moving; the tendency of a body at rest is to sit still. In other words, it’s a lot less work to keep moving once you have some momentum, than it is to start moving from a dead stop.
Personally do you consistently stay in a state momentum or always struggle to build momentum?
How Branding and Transparency Help charity: water Stand Out
Scott Harrison from charity: water stopped by the new 37signals office to speak to the team about the unconventional ways that charity: water stands out from other charities through branding and transparency.
Another key to CW’s success is that 100% of donations are used for direct water project costs. (A group of private donors, foundations and sponsors help pay for the everyday costs of running the organization.) CW even pays for the paypal and credit card transaction fees when people donate online so each penny goes straight to actually building a well.
Read the post “How branding and transparency help charity: water stand out” on 37signals - signal vs. noise blog.
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“Innovative design always develops in tandem with innovative technology, and can never be an end in itself.” —
— Dieter Rams
1960s+ German industrial designer that influenced the design of the iPhone 4