Well said Adrian - that's the goal I guess. The Podcast itself is my creative outsource and I have a ton of fun with the audit edits/SFX - so thought I'd just keep pushing my creative boundaries with the artwork too.

ha yeah - overthinking is definitely something I'm good at. But I learn from these experiments and take them into almost all my projects.

Cheers for the kind words:)

Hey DN!

I've put together a two-part design case study sharing how I'm experimenting with Yo! Podcast artwork concepts.

Problem: Guests send inconsistent image angles, inconsistent color grades, difficult crops, background objects clash with text.

Proposed Solution: Illustrated character portraits.

So I took to Fiverr to outsource $5 designs from 6 different designers using the same brief. The results are fascinating!

I don’t love em… I don’t hate em. The original photo route might actually be better. What do you think?

If anything, I hope the breakdown sparks some ideas on your projects somehow!

Hi Andrei - brutalism doesn't come to mind with these but I've been curating this style I categorize as "long-form journalism" pages: https://onepagelove.com/inspiration/long-form-journalism - I think there might be a reference or two in here for you

Thanks Etienne - it's been quite the process to get to this point in the design (like 11yrs of One Page Love lol) but really feeling it delivers inspiration well with the Infinite Scroll + Retina screenshots.

Thanks Mike:)

There are a ton of similarities btw One Pagers and Email with the long-scrolling, copy to-the-point, single purpose/pitch and a CTA - so got to reuse a lot of the same design elements as OPL site.

LONG way to go with 7k posts on OPL and 100 emails on EML but ready for the challenge!

Cheers Lukas!

Still early days with ~100 emails (compared to One Page Love with 7000 over 11yrs) but if I keep adding daily it'll turn into quite a useful resource:)

Sorted! (thanks for the nudge)

Thanks Barry! The Discovery section really has received a great response. I think over time it will be quite useful (filters and things).

You are 100% right about the dropdown, super confusing, it should say "Email Marketing" (but then doubles up a bit with the "Marketing" category). I've actually been thumping my head against the wall with categories on One Page Love for 10 years, quite tricky!

Hey DN!

A few of you might know my side project One Page Love curating Single Page websites... well this year I thought I'd give Email Inspiration a bash:)

It's super early days with ~100 emails on the site but happy with the v1 so far. The categories are quite bare but adding daily and hope in 12-18 months it will become a useful inspiration to find references: emaillove.com/inspiration

There is also a Newsletter Discovery section where I'm trying to spotlight great authors/newsletters within niches: emaillove.com/discovery

Oh and I've decided to add a Transparency page to share setup + running costs and things if you are interest in starting a similar site: emaillove.com/transparency

Any questions or feedback welcome! Hope you find some good inspo :)

Rob