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Designer Frank Chimero's personal website opens up with a thoughtful and lovely vertical parallax tour of his design thoughts, forming a sort of mission / manifesto. He makes his entrance less about what he does for design, and instead focusses on the capabilities and necessity of design—showing, not telling and quite compelling.

Happily, Nixon finally acquired their brand domain name, and such an event deserves celebration and a polished redesign. Their last site was beautiful, but the new interface takes the best of the old and adds friendlier function. The new minimalist site design keeps the focus on the product while highlighting lifestyle. The front page has become a friendly lookbook and the interior product and category pages make browsing to buy a breeze while capturing the story and details behind each product.

Over the years, Google has stepped up their game in the Google Doodles department. Originally a festive—if not slightly gimmicky logo replacement, the Doodles were just that—doodles. Some of the earliest examples seemed to fall victim to clip art and paint edits, but that's all in the past. Now we look forward to seeing what artistic creation Google will dream up next for their much-less-literal logo hybrids. Sometimes we're surprised by animation, other times it's a cheerful or artistic change that brings novelty or joy to a predictable experience.

Sometimes (always), it's just a coffee kind of day, and today I've been finding inspiration in lots of coffee related projects, from branding, to drawing, to product design. One beauty I stumbled upon is this website design for Scandinavian Coffee House.