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 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, [...]
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 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 ReadingHigh Life Upgraded
…comes from the Miller Brewing Company and Landor San Francisco. As much of a beer snob that I am, there’s nothing like a frosty High Life on a hot summer’s day, because sometimes a man just likes to kick back and relax with a cheap beer. Via the DieLine.
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