Adam Carolla on Change
“…But think about all the change that’s happened in your life. Is it ever bad? Change is growth. That’s how you measure growth. It’s the rings in your tree. Sure, it can be bad temporarily: You’re our of a job, you’re out of your apartment, you’re out of your relationship. But six months or a [...]
Continue ReadingImplementing a Grid with Web Design
“…what a grid does, is it creates structure. And it creates a coherence page after page. And that really makes users feel good when the see this consistency. And it makes your job [as a designer] easier because you’re not designing each page anew. You’re re-using elements. And it’s really important in web design, which is [...]
Continue ReadingPut Design in Your Company’s DNA
“Corporate Design Foundation, a non-profit education and research organization, was founded on the belief that design can make a major contribution both to an individual’s quality of life and to a corporation’s success, and that both individual and organizational interests can be served through the effective use of the design [...]
Continue ReadingWhat I Learned at DIGMA’s Design Means Business 2010
Last week, I had the fortune to attend the Design Industry Group of Massachusetts’ (DIGMA) Design Means Business event at Reebok’s headquarters in Canton, MA. The day was split up into three panel discussions on how design relates to better business; all of the speakers shared very engaging case studies and stories on this topic, [...]
Continue ReadingDesign and the NYC Subway Map
Following his extensive work on the New York City subway signage in the late 1960s, Massimo Vignelli, inspired by Harry Beck’s 1933 London Underground map, simplified New York’s tangled subway map into a clean, readable system. Idsgn writer Skylar examines Vignelli’s map and how the Metropolitan Transit Authority scrapped [...]
Continue ReadingQ&A: How can I market my in-house team?
I got an e-mail from a reader yesterday that asked me for advice on marketing her in-house design team. Unfortunately, she didn’t provide too many details on her exact situation, but thankfully there are a lot of ways to do this. The first thing to keep in mind is that generally, in-house creative services will be cheaper to your in-house [...]
Continue ReadingAvoid In-House Burnout by Getting to Know Your Customers
Something that I’ve been thinking of a lot recently is the importance for in-house designers to not only know the product (or service) their company is selling, but who is purchasing those goods or services. A lot of times, in-house design is just that; creatives supporting the external operational functions of a company. Unfortunately, [...]
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