It’s been a while since I posted one of these, and this is definitely not a slant on all you beautiful people that have been slaving away on your superb Manji designs it’s just that this one as I’m sure you’ll agree truely does deserve a mention.

It belongs to Catonya and Rick, however it was designed by Lisa Fahrmeyer from Cafelisa. From her website it’s clear that Lisa has a distinct style to her work, and that’s something that’s a rare thing on the internet. To have a style that people associated you with. Lisa seems to be of an illustration background and that mentality shows. As illustrators you spend years trying to find your voice. I guess the same can be said of graphic and web design in general.

Lisa has fully embraced all my quirky little requests in absolute style. Letters Apart flavored Manji. She's even gone and given the line that the design was based on the Manji code. Not necessary but I'm truely honoured you'd put the entire line in there. It breaks out of the box. It's a great little touch and brings forward the feel of an old letter brought into the modern age in style. It's really the attention to detail that I truely love about this design. Also from what I've seen around the net, she's the only one along with Paul who's customised the edit buttons, and in both cases they do a magnificent job of these. I know how hard it is to come up with something nice for those areas, as I struggled enough to get the Manji default up and running. Takes a bit to get used to as all the writing is italic, however having said that think about the letters of days gone past, everything was done in a caligraphic nature. Italic is the only way of achieving the desired effect. It's obvious what the font selection is trying to convey here. Makes it look easy doesn't she. I mean colour selection can be one of the hardest most painful processes a web design goes through. So much is said by the colours you choose. Great colour combination. Man when I saw this I just had the biggest smile on my face. Fantastic work Lisa.