Notes 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 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 ReadingLessons Learned: The Corporate Creative
I’m pleased to announce that I just finished The Corporate Creative: Tips and Tactics for Thriving as an In-House Designer by Andy Epstein. I had the pleasure of attending two of Andy’s seminars at the 2009 HOW Design Conference in Austin, and it’s worth reporting that Andy is responsible for my current quest for knowledge [...]
Continue ReadingEvery Back to the Future Timeline in One Infographic
(Click to enlarge.) Via Sean Mort.
Continue ReadingCan you make it snazzier? Why design-by-committee doesn’t work.
Throughout my career, both as an in-house designer, and in running my own design business, I’ve seen businesses that seem to take great joy in the design-by-committee mentality… everyone wants to be part of the process, and there are never benefits to this. Think of it this way: if you hire an electrician, do you follow him around [...]
Continue ReadingWe New Englanders are a Cranky Bunch
Produced by the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University (my alma mater), and Harvard Medical School at Harvard University, the above infograph was built using over 300 million tweets and shows density-preserving cartograms for each hour of the day (EST), by U.S. state. According to this data, us New Englanders [...]
Continue ReadingWho’s taking the photos in your city?
Designed by Eric Fischer, these graphics log where tourists (red dots) and locals (blue dots) take photographs in a city.
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