This is why you should care about typography.
Cliff Kuang at FastCompany Design shares this quick and comprehensive amateur’s guide to typography. As Cliff points, out, “95% of graphic design is typography… treat it well!” (Click to enlarge.)
Continue ReadingFreedom, then branding.
Delphine Hirasuna at @issue shares the story of how our country’s flag came to be, and how branding standards were finally adopted. “By 1912, when the nation had 48 states, Congress decided that enough was enough. It adopted the graphic guidelines that are in place today. When we consider the history of the American flag, it is [...]
Continue ReadingPardon the mess.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, and I’m attributing that to taking a very early Summer hiatus. As it turns out, I’ve spent the last few months making the preparations to attend graduate school in the fall, and I’m happy to report that I’ve been accepted to Suffolk University’s MBA program. In [...]
Continue ReadingNotes from ‘Elements of Content Strategy’
Over the past few months, I’ve designed, coded, and am currently adding content to a brand-new client-facing e-newsletter at work. Ideally, we’ll launch by the end of the month, and publish new newsletters on a quarterly basis. It has me thinking a lot about the impact of content on users, and what the best way is for curating [...]
Continue ReadingNotes from ‘In-House Design in Practice’
I picked up In-House Design in Practice by Cathy Fishel at the 2009 HOW Design Conference… I read it shortly thereafter, taking several pieces of Fishel’s advice to practice, and it’s helped me navigate the in-house design world ever since. Here are some of the more interesting passages (in my opinion) from the book: “The [...]
Continue ReadingNotes from ‘Thinking with Type’
These last ten days of vacation have really given me a chance to slow things down and catch up on some much-needed reading. Case in point, I just wrapped up reading Ellen Lupton’s book, Thinking with Type. Up until now, my go-to book for typographic reference has been John Kane’s A Type Primer. I had the fortune of taking many [...]
Continue ReadingNotes from ‘Layout Essentials’
I just finished reading Layout Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Using Grids by Beth Tondreau, and it’s a great reference tool for any designer specializing in print (and web) design. Tondreau builds her book around 100 rules for implementing grids with your design, and elaborates on each one. The book is not only visually fascinating, [...]
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