Strands

Strands Premium Theme | Blog + Portfolio

Wed, 30 May 2012 15:06:00 -0700

Strands Premium Tumblr theme is a dynamic duo of two themes rolled into one to showcase your portfolio and blog all in one spot. Like all of the other Style Hatch themes, Strands comes fully loaded with 80+ features and customization options.

Blog + Portfolio

Strands: Blog features a two column grid layout with a way to tag and highlight your articles and special posts that you want to stand out from the rest. Strands: Portfolio displays all of your photo and photoset posts as thumbnails in a compact grid leading to high-resolution details of your work. Strands: Blog and Strands: Portfolio work great on their own, but to get the most out of the theme you will need to setup a second Tumblr blog for your portfolio**.

**With the way that Tumblr theme credits work, you will need to purchase the theme twice if you plan on using it on two blogs for Strands: Blog and Strands: Portfolio.

Social Features

Strands has built in support for group blogs, sharing on Facebook, Twitter, Pintrest, and Google Plus, comments powered by Disqus, Instagram feed, and posts you like. Also in the appearances options you’ll find nearly 30 social profile icon links.

Customization Options

Below you will find a list and simple description of each of the theme customization options. If you have any questions about the features shoot us an email at strands@stylehatch.co.

Colors

Background - Sets the theme background color. If you want to have a solid background, make sure you clear the background image option.
Sidebar Background - Sets the background color of the sidebar.
Sidebar Title - Sets the text color of the titles on the sidebar.
Sidebar Nav - Sets the text color of the navigation (pages).
Sidebar Text - Sets the default text color for the sidebar.
Sidebar UI - Sets the background color behind the tweets and borders between the sections.
Post Title - Sets the text color of the post titles. To add a title to a post simply edit the post HTML and wrap the title in <h2></h2> tags.
Post Header - Sets text color that appears in the header of quote, link, and audio posts.
Post Header Accent - Sets the accent color for secondary text that appears in the header.
Post Header Background - Sets the background color of the header.
Center Line - Sets the color used for the center line and post dots on the line.

Images

Logo - Upload an image to replace the blog title at the top of the sidebar.
Background - Upload an image to be used as the site’s overall background. This feature can be used in combination with the “fill background image” option to fit the image to the screen.
Sidebar - Upload an image to tile on the sidebar.
Post Header - Upload an image to tile in the header of the posts.

Options

Always Feature First Post - The most recent post to your blog will be featured at the top across two columns.
Infinite Scrolling - Enable infinite scrolling to allow visitors to easily load all of your blogs pages.
Show Center Line - Show the center line along with corresponding post dots.
Capitalize Titles - Capitalize all of the post, header and sidebar header titles.
Fill Background Image - Fills the entire browser window with your blog’s background image.
Fixed Sidebar - Lock the sidebar in place and prevent it from scrolling with your posts.
Expanded Sidebar - Use an expanded width for the sidebar.
Show Group Blog Details - As long as your secondary blog is a group blog, this option will allow you to display the group and author details.
Show Sites I Follow - Displays icons for the sites you follow in the sidebar.
Light Social Icons - Load light social icons to link to your profiles, or uncheck to load in darker icons useful for light sidebar colors.
Portfolio Mode - Turns on the portfolio mode to display photo and photoset posts in a tighter grid. Any H2 tag added to the post description will be used for the portfolio title in the grid.
Blog Title URL - Add an optional different URL associated with the blog title or logo.
Featured Post Tags - Comma separated list of all the tags that will trigger the two column, wide featured post option. By default the tag ‘featured’ is always enabled.
Post Description Title - Set the description title used below the post content on permalink pages.
Post Description - Set the description shown below the post content on permalink pages. This is useful for writing mini-biographies or details following your posts.
Sidebar Description Title - Set the title that appears above your sidebar blog description.
Authors Title -Set the title show above the list of group blog authors.
Liked Title - Set the title show above the list of liked posts.
Tweets Title - Set the title show above the recent tweets.
Instagram Title - Set the title above the recent Instagram shots.
Following Title - Set the title above the list of blogs that you are following on Tumblr.
Footer Copyright - Set the footer copyright show at the bottom of the sidebar.

Add-Ons and Extensions

Disqus ID - Add your Disqus Site Shortname to enable comments for your site. Click here to register for a Disqus site account.
Google Analytics ID - Ascender has asynchronous Google Analytics tracking built into the theme, all you need to do is add your site ID to this option.
Clicky ID - For realtime tracking of who is on your site right now, goals, campaigns and Twitter monitoring add your Click ID. Clicky does charge for their analytics and tracking, but I highly recommend it for people who are stats junkies. Sign up for an account with Clicky.
Instagram Access Token - To add your recent Instagram shots head over to stylehatch.co/instagram and follow the easy steps to authorize the theme with Instagram and get your access token.
Typekit ID - Add your Typekit site ID enable custom typography and font-face fonts for your site. For detailed directions check out our help article on adding Typekit to your Tumblr blog.
Body Font Family, Title Font Family - Add a standard CSS font stack or Typekit CSS font name to control the body and title fonts.

Social Links

Add URLs to display the following social site icons below your site description. Note: Make sure you add the full URL, including “http://”.

Behance, Cargo Collective, Delicious, Deviant Art, Digg, Dribbble, Ember, Etsy, Facebook, FFFFound, Flickr, Formspring, Forrst, Foursquare, Gowalla, Last.fm, Linked In, Myspace, Pinterest, Rdio, Skype, Spotify, Slideshare, Soundcloud, Stumbled Upon, Twitter, Vimeo, generic website link, Youtube, and your email address.

Canon Blue Album cover for Canon Blue’s soon to be...

Wed, 30 May 2012 14:52:00 -0700

Canon Blue

Album cover for Canon Blue’s soon to be released album, Rumspringa. Designed by HVASS & Hannibal.

"The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture."

Wed, 30 May 2012 14:46:50 -0700

“The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.”

- Jeff Smith

Hope, Fear and Digital Culture

Wed, 30 May 2012 14:44:00 -0700

Only 30 years ago people did not make things. They would go to art galleries, buy records, read books by famous authors, and watch Hollywood movies all created by professional artists. Fast forward to the last decade—especially the last few years—and everything we know about consuming and creating has unraveled. The makers dramatically changing industries and the world forever.

Today everyone makes things. Not only has the digital age allowed people to become curators of culture, it has removed all the barriers for anyone to create. Everyone is a photographer, writer, designer, musician, film maker. Despite a recession there has never in history been a better time to create and find success as an artist.

The new documentary PressPausePlay explores the concept of hope, fear and digital culture in today’s society.

Ideas that Spread Win

In the clip above author Seth Godin talks about his experience as an author and his decision to release his book Unleashing the Idea Virus online for free without his publisher. Since the free ebook was released online it has been downloaded over five million times and lead to a hardcover version that topped Amazon’s best seller charts.

I made more money from the book that I gave away than the one I had sold. The lesson is… this changes everything. The industry is dead.
- Seth Godin

What are you going to do?

Personally I decided to take a leap of faith in early 2009 leaving the ad agency world behind with the goal of being able to find happiness in creative work that I control, provide for my family, and grow a business that gives back to society and employs other talented people. It took several months of ad agency contracts and client work, but finally in late 2010 I was able to transition from clients to truly being independent. For the first time in my career I feel like I have full creative control over what make or pursue.

Best of all getting to this point didn’t require any luck, special favors or a pile of cash. It was accomplished through seeing an opportunity and acting on it with a bit of hard work. I strongly believe that there is no reason why anyone else couldn’t do the same in this amazing time we live in.

With all of this opportunity to create and get paid for it, how are you going to take advantage of the moment?

“Ambling Alp” by Yeasayer You must stick up for yourself son....

Wed, 30 May 2012 14:43:00 -0700

“Ambling Alp” by Yeasayer

You must stick up for yourself son. Never mind what anybody else done

Redbull Amsterdam HQ Filled with wall-to-wall polygons, Sid Lee...

Wed, 30 May 2012 14:24:00 -0700

Redbull Amsterdam HQ

Filled with wall-to-wall polygons, Sid Lee Architecture transformed the old shipbuilding factory into a new and creative headquarters for Redbull Amsterdam. Using a juxtaposition of ideas—light vs dark, arts vs industry—the new headquarters is a perfect fit for the Redbull brand and location.

See more images and details on the space at Yatzer’s full article on Redbull’s Amsterdam HQ. Photography by Ewout Huibers

Additional post featuring Sid Lee’s work - Bota Bota

Can We Please Move Past Apple’s Silly, Faux-Real UIs?

Wed, 30 May 2012 14:21:58 -0700

Can We Please Move Past Apple’s Silly, Faux-Real UIs?:

Teague’s Tom Hobbs argues that UI designers need to stop aping real-life bookshelves and suede calendars like Apple does, and go for a new philosophy: Just Enough Is More.

Mosser Glass Terrarium NY based designers Jennica...

Wed, 30 May 2012 14:08:09 -0700

Mosser Glass Terrarium

NY based designers Jennica Johnstone and Noah Atkinson create these small glass terrarium filled with a simple round moss ball. Mosser is for sale on Etsy for $26.

Photo

Wed, 30 May 2012 14:01:59 -0700

Manawai Endless summer on Fuerteventura with Manawai Surf Camp...

Wed, 30 May 2012 13:55:00 -0700

Manawai

Endless summer on Fuerteventura with Manawai Surf Camp shot by Andro Kajzer

"Being right keeps you in place, being wrong forces you to explore."

Wed, 30 May 2012 13:33:26 -0700

“Being right keeps you in place, being wrong forces you to explore.”

- Steven Johnson

Reef Eyewear Colorful branding, packaging and product design for...

Wed, 30 May 2012 13:31:46 -0700

Reef Eyewear

Colorful branding, packaging and product design for Reef Eyeware by Ross Burwell.

Character City Exclusive LouLou & Tummie poster on heavy...

Wed, 30 May 2012 13:28:01 -0700

Character City

Exclusive LouLou & Tummie poster on heavy weight A5 paper. Grab the Character City poster for only €2.50 in their store!

NYC | VSCO CAM Last week while we were in NYC for Behance’s 99%...

Wed, 30 May 2012 13:21:56 -0700

NYC | VSCO CAM

Last week while we were in NYC for Behance’s 99% Conference I fell in love with Visual Supply Co’s new VSCO CAM iPhone app. With minimal processing options VSCO CAM does a great job emulating the film styles for the likes of Kodak Tri-X, Fuji Superia, Ilford HP5 and many others. Here are a few shots I captured while exploring the city. Follow me on Instagram for other examples.

"The quality of your UX shows how much your respect or disrespect your customers"

Wed, 30 May 2012 13:20:56 -0700

“The quality of your UX shows how much your respect or disrespect your customers”

- Alexis Ohanian - co-founder of Reddit, Hipmunk and Breadpig

lepostitjaune: KENGO KUMA Oribe Tea House Pavilion, Japan...

Wed, 30 May 2012 13:18:13 -0700

http://kkaa.co.jp/works/oribe-tea-house/

http://kkaa.co.jp/works/oribe-tea-house/

lepostitjaune:

KENGO KUMA Oribe Tea House Pavilion, Japan 2005

A temporary, mobile tea room. Corrugated plastic boards 5mm thick are arrayed at 65mm intervals and fixed together using banding bands. Once the bands are unfastened, the tea room returns to an assembly of cheap elements, making it easy to move. The entire form resembles an irregularly-shaped cocoon, and is an homage to Furuta Oribe’s deformed tea ceremony bowl.

Manchester Orchastra - “Simple Math” Created by the super team...

Wed, 30 May 2012 13:15:49 -0700

Manchester Orchastra - “Simple Math”

Created by the super team duo DANIELS, Manchester Orchastra’s “Simple Math” music video one of the finalist for the upcoming 2012 Vimeo Awards. Check out the DANIELS’ blog on Tumblr.

Honey Hunters of Nepal High in the Himalayan foothills, fearless...

Wed, 30 May 2012 12:59:11 -0700

Honey Hunters of Nepal

High in the Himalayan foothills, fearless Gurung men risk their lives to harvest the massive nests of the world’s largest honeybees.

Captured by National Geographic photographer Eric Valli. Read the entire article Himalayan Honey Hunters Cling to Cliffside Tradition.

Found on The Fox Is Black

Grit Is More Important Than Talent

Wed, 30 May 2012 12:46:30 -0700

Grit Is More Important Than Talent:

“Very often when we talk about the skill of ‘productivity’ what we are really talking about is ‘self-control.’”

It turns out that sheer grit and perseverance has more to do with remarkable achievement than talent alone. Do you believe that grit is a trait we are born with or can it be developed over time?

Thomas Gold remixes The Wave with expansive soundscapes and an...

Wed, 30 May 2012 12:19:19 -0700

Thomas Gold remixes The Wave with expansive soundscapes and an ever-growing build up with Miike Snow’s vocalist Andrew Wyatt.