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Inspiration: Inspire at Viget Labs

Great way to integrate navigation into the very artistic header.
It's not as obvious as I'd like, but if you click here, you'll be able to jump to any of the 4 Labs sites from Viget.
I'm not a big fan of input boxes that don't look like input boxes, unless you can make it obvious. I don't think this line is. And the RSS icon should be on the right, but Webkit doesn't lay it out correctly.
Great copy here, not to mention the design around it.
Instead of Gravatars, Viget uses artistic photos of the people who are writing in the blogs. This is a great way to help get to know the people behind the company.
The white text here doesn't really work on the light background. Other than that, this content block is great.
Interesting and unique styling for post titles, authors, categories, date and comments.
Inspiration: Inspire at Viget Labs by Patrick Haney.
1 of the 4 new Labs sites launched at Viget, each with its own design, the Inspire site was made for designers in mind, and looks that way too. The fantastic header integrates the navigational links beautifully while the rest of the site shows off many other great details. All 4 sites are worth a look.

Visit the site: http://www.viget.com/inspire
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dougunderscorenelson  Pro User  says:

Thanks for the notes, Patrick! That RSS button is killing me, it appears that way in every screenshot I see, but I can't duplicate the bug.
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Luke Dorny (luxuryluke)  Pro User  says:

I enjoyed this one.
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kriegs  Pro User  says:

adore the watercolor look to this but agree that some elements are a tad light on certain bg elements.
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sourjayne  Pro User  says:

You're right, all four blog designs are really interesting. While exploring them, I came across a writeup about them at WebDesignerWall -- did you see that? Very interesting peek into their process with visual examples of their Moodboards, mockups, notes, etc. Thanks for calling this out!
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Stuart Frisby says:

Beautiful header, not so keen on the right-hand column, but in general this is awesome.
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