With the advent of a lot of the new technologies like touch interface, smart phones, tablet PCs, E-Ink etc… Many designers and modernists are having a hard time finding where print is coming into play. Why printers stay in business. What a lot of them don’t seem to realize is that the printing industry has …
I know there are countless IE bashing blog posts out there on the interwebs, I will try to keep my hatred of if to a minimum and infact have a suggestion for the IE Dev team that may help.
The Google Wave team have done it. Either they thought this through and Google is monitoring the growth of the (pun not intended) wave of users joining or they should be. They’ve created a hype as big as Apple can with their products. The manner in which they are releasing Wave, although the same as …
Why is it so that the keyboard engineers would do this to somebody? Do the designers of modern hardware interface really hate society this much that they would cause this horror movie-esk scenario to happen?
Fonts and faces play a large part in our designs. They help influence the reader to the content. Now apply that in reverse. What would you sound like?
I have just been reading an outstanding article at Information Architechs. I agree with most if not all of the observations outlined in the piece. Web design and site design has now, more than ever before, become information driven. Blogs, news, RSS, these are the common sites that everybody is using. With so much concentration …
Sure you may be able to create fancy designs that awe and impress your friends, and sure they may be well done. But these are simply good designs. These are text treatments, text effects, designs that are driven towards what the text says. Typography is the complete opposite: it’s about creating a feeling using the family, position, scale, rotation, face, alignment, etc…
Yay! New year time! Wait, why am I excited? It’s simply another day. Oh well. Tonight will be a very interesting one. For any of you that read this, let me know what you’re doing. Personally, I prefer staying at home and making a lot of food that I normally wouldn’t. We’re thinking of making …
First off, let me begin by saying that this is not about avatars, emoticons or leet. That is a discussion for another day, be it good or bad. Perhaps ‘Internet’ would not be the appropriate word or vice in this situation, but it has indeed been a severe assistant to the ongoing threat that typographers …
Sorry, it’s been several days since I’ve wrote. I am still alive but work has been quite busy. There have been several articles and events over the last week that have been giving me angst. Canadian Politics being on the top of that list of course but I won’t go into it now. I am …