April 30th, 2010 at 11:43PM

Hello Brighton

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
1-3 May 2010
London, Brighton

The whole editorial and technology team of illustrativo (and the team of PicFog as well, ha) will visit Brighton for the bank holidays. Can you imagine better timing.

To make it more fun, we’ll be using foursquare (with this account) and check in to every corner. So if you’re a Brighton-based illustrator or graphic designer, here’s the great opportunity to bribe the illustrativo editors and get featured.

About illustrativo
il·lu·stra·ti·vo showcases the freshest cute art, graphic design, illustration, street art and candy color sweetness. Excellent daily source of cute graphic design, drawings, kawaii and designer desktop wallpapers.

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March 20th, 2010 at 10:53AM
Become a fan of illustrativo!

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illustrativo is taking its first baby steps to facebook. encourage us by becoming a fan @ facebook.com/illustrativo :)
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December 6th, 2009 at 4:06PM
Illustrativo got a nice sidebar of most popular recent submissions. (I have to say, it was suprisingly easy to use the mechanize ruby gem to walk a website / page - the jquery style css selector makes it extremely straightforward to find a node in a html/xml document.)

Illustrativo got a nice sidebar of most popular recent submissions. (I have to say, it was suprisingly easy to use the mechanize ruby gem to walk a website / page - the jquery style css selector makes it extremely straightforward to find a node in a html/xml document.)

#ruby#mechanize#illustrativo
August 14th, 2009 at 2:05PM

Illustrativo improvements

Moving illustrativo to tumblr is starting to pay off - traffic has increased more than 50%, gained more than 150 followers and now is one of the top illustration blogs here. Users now also have the ability to submit their own artwork to illustrativo - look for the big grey button on the right.

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July 27th, 2009 at 8:49PM

Illustrativo is coming to tumblr

Illustrativo is a very visual website, it features the best illustrations from around the world. It has the kind of content that’s very compatible with tumblr & its audience. Also, blogspot doesn’t have the wonderful liberating constraints tumblr has.

So we figured it would be great to move the site over to tumblr. It’s not a completely trivial task with a blogspot blog, but last Friday, a little script started running, and it imports couple of dozens of posts a day - by early September all more than 2000 beautiful pictures will be here. Since tumblr has a nice archive page, you can take a look at the first results now - check out the illustrativo archive!

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July 13th, 2008 at 5:53PM

Tag cloud for Illustrativo

Illustrativo is an illustration blog with almost 2000 entries - in this case, 2000 pictures featuring 2000 different artists. That’s a plenty of pictures, how can we let the user dig deeper in the site?



Okay, tag clouds aren’t the latest idea in town - the fun part starts when you click on a tag. Instead of showing a mere ten posts with the same tag, all the posts are shown, and you will find what you’re looking for in a much more effective way.


Above, all the paintings in one place. I may not win the Nobel prize with this one, but it really makes browsing easier, and I had a chance to use some cool stuff, including JQuery, some JQuery plugins (Query string, Tooltip) and a dash of JSON. Almost forgot: I had to write a small routine to solve quadratic equations - just wanted to make sure those tags look exactly how I imagined.


JQuery can be very time-effective if you have a common problem - you just download the according plugins and you’re halfway done.  But when you want a little bit more than magically hide a paragraph, it (ie. your code) can get nasty.

#unobtrusive#json#jquery#illustrativo#Blogger