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 ReadingOff Topic: Cord Control
In a perfect world, every office gadget would be wireless. We’re not quite there yet as most of us are still stuck with an OCD-nightmare of cables and wires behind our desks. In the past, I’ve gone the route of zip-tying all of my cables together (or forcing them into one of those cable sleeves), thinking that “this time [...]
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 ReadingIt’s Marketing Transformation Week
I’m home sick from work today… which has absolutely nothing to do with it being Marketing Transformation Week. But since I’m sitting here in bed, drinking orange juice and trying to stave off cabin fever, I thought I’d write a quick blog post. Cambridge, MA’s HubSpot, is promoting this week as Marketing Transformation [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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