It’s not often that design gets the level of press coverage that it truly deserves, and when it does, it’s usually negative– as is the case with the hub-bub surrounding the recently announced identity for the 2012 London Olympics. Almost 50,000 people have signed an online petition to have the logo– designed by Wolf Ollins [...]
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Free Download: 2007 Skylines Calendar
In celebration of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, I have decided to make public the work of which I am most proud, a 2007 calendar featuring the skylines of 6 beautiful international cities.
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On this day, everyone who wants to should give away professional quality work online. It doesn’t matter if it’s a novel, a story [...]
Use Numerals– Not Words– For Better Usability
It’s always nice when a something comes out that backs up something you’ve been asserting on your own for ages, especially when that thing seems to be common sense. According to eyetracking data from a recent study, numerals (27) catch user’s attention more than words of the same meaning (twenty-three). Things that are ‘out of [...]
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Design Icon - David Carson
I had the chance this evening to attend a talk by renowned designer David Carson— part of AIGA Colorado’s “Design Icon” series of lectures. David is a talented public speaker and had many insightful, interesting, and humorous things say about his work and the philosophy of design.
Readability has a lot to do with what you [...]
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Type in Motion
Savannah College of Art and Design student Jarratt Moody produced this fantastic motion piece featuring dialogue from Pulp Fiction for his “Time-Based Typography” class taught by Motionographer editor Jared Cone.
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Typographic Design: Form and Communication, Fourth Edition
My first impression of this book– sitting on the shelf of the campus bookstore where I had gone to purchase books for my very first design class– wasn’t great. The cover was dated and ugly, and a quick flip through the pages didn’t show anything all that exciting. Little did I know that by the [...]
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