When I started this blog I knew I wanted it to have big and exciting images, as a lot of design blogs I had been reading at the time used smaller images, making it less exciting to me. So it was interesting when I started to get some regular hits from a new site called Creative Scrape, which uses a “hand-picked number of RSS feeds and Flickr sets in order to deliver a random smattering of beautiful, ugly, and inspiring things.”

The site was created by Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs and acts sort of like an automated FFFFOUND, albeit with a much smaller concentration of sources. As far as I can tell the feed sources are from Kitsune Noir, Design Notes, Rojo Magazine, Behance, I Love Typography, and then a bunch of folks from Flickr. It might be narcissistic, but it’s really cool to see these images as purely images, with no words to describe them or a blog to give them a greater context. Definitely pop over and check out what they’re up to, and if you really like it, download the screensaver they created as well!

Bobby

4 Comments »

1. congrats! what’s that image at top left?

   Comment by felix — July 13, 2008 #

2. nevermind - found it : http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Retro-Futurism/96557

   Comment by felix — July 13, 2008 #

3. I see some of my posters in there :)

   Comment by Jon — July 13, 2008 #

4. Hi Bobby! Thanks for the link. I’m glad you like it. Yours was the very first blog we added because of your consistently excellent taste and big, beautiful pictures.

   I agree with you about most design blogs being stingy with the pictures (and I’ll also add that the pictures’ “remarkability” also tends to vary a lot, too).

   I hate feed readers with a real, burning passion, and that’s what gave me the idea for creativescrape. I wanted to build something that didn’t wreck the content with the experience. I find myself reading more design blogs now :)

   We’re going to add some more blogs as time goes on - it’s a little tricky to tune it so we don’t get navigation images, etc. Let me know if you have suggestions!

   Cheers (and thanks again for the great blog!).

   Amy

   Comment by Amy — July 14, 2008 #

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