Finally, after weeks of doing everyone else's design work, I've finished my first round portfolio. Many sleepless nights the past week, coupled with an overwhelming neglect for my own posts and comments have kept me focused on finishing this immediately. Soon there will be a slide out for text links ...
Would you accept a compliment about your hair, from a stylist with horrible hair? If a mechanic said your car was junk, would you take them serious if their own car didn't run (Steve Buscemi excluded)? How about an award for the best of the Web, from a company ...
Todd Bishop asks Why are these ads for MSN, not Windows Live - I'm wondering why they'd even advertise. Google gets to write snart billboards if they so choose seeing as they're the big kid on the block (but they don't, in fact they write smart ...
Keeping things business as usual, LetterHead Fonts was nice enough to post about the subsequent bittorent of the their LHF Garner, a classic sign font akin to the Larabie Blue Highway, or the exquisite Hoefler & Frere-Jones, Gotham. Long story short: apparently Randy Howe purchased ...
Always Watching posts an article from David Chen with an excellent collage of Great Scenes from TV and Film, Told Using Only Typography (and Sound). Enjoy it!
An interesting overview of Apple's Design Process from a senior engineering manager at apple. Interesting as a designer is the Pixel Perfect Mockup, though I imagine they still go through the rough foundation, only this style for management presentation (as I prefer to do for my team as well). Their ...
Dotfive needed to end. Although I have a back log of clientele both within San Francisco and the Chicagoland Area, the challenge of design has become a mundane set of solving client problems, sacrificing personal design choices for the client need, and polishing whatever I find in the rubble. I've found ...
Douglas Hahn, of Sink Review, found this interesting article on the perception variations of color between Babies and Adults. While adults translate color information, for the most part, in the left hemisphere of the brain (right side vision), babies performed their tasks in their right hemisphere. ...
CNET is pitching Microsoft's online system adds some big names, but I feel underwhelmed by the idea of Microsoft doing anything big in regards to the world wide web. My career as an Art Director experienced in code has always seen frustration with anything Microsoft considers it's internet.
A unique flash application that showcases the new $5 bill, including a history of the bill design dating back to 1861.
In the interest of the discussion: "Art is a lie that makes us realize truth." -Pablo Picasso ...or any other quote that justifies the theft of experienced design, LogoMaid has apparently taken it as a professional business practice to lift it's inspiration from well known artists. Then copyright. Then sell to unbeknownst ...
Or maybe it was design inspiration. Nevertheless, Falkner winery has taken the disgusting tactic of removing said complaints from their blog, without apology or otherwise. I'm thinking of making a Winery in their image, maybe Brady Winery? I'm more angered by Falkner's response over anything else - atleast ...
I spoke recently on dotfive about our experience at the new Wordcamp - openly I am not a blogger by trade... it's simply a tool for our design and development, and I enjoy the craft with my writing background, but don't consider it the central theme to our development. Maybe ...
CubeCart is one of many standards-compliant shopping cart systems at the forefront of the new internet. Its focus is on pursuing an entry level store system for the average to advanced user, minimizing development time, and leveraging programming skillsets that may not be available to the entry developer. While its ...
Web development, as we've discussed many times, is a varying hodgepodge of misinformation coupled with varying experts; many of them are geniuses and fantastic leaders of this industry, although at times the opposite will saturate the search for new information. When we work with young designers, we almost always have to ...
Every web designer finds himself grounded by the volumes of theory, recommendations, and standards when they first step into this industry. It can be a little more than intimidating when you imagine that my daily client designs for the web require the usage of over 4 programs and atleast 3 ...
Often times we're asked about unusual bugs that transfer from content typed at the office into our the beautiful content management system we designed for our clients. Those of you who are print content writers, and would like to break into web writing, this is a necessity to learn and ...
Color Science, Color Theory, Color Calibration; much of it in our industry is still a psuedo-science -- filled with much speculation, and, to tell you the truth, professional confusion. In my production experience, even talking with members of the INTERNATIONAL COLOR CONSORTIUM can give you more questions than answers. ...
Converse has done a fantastic job at creating an online store catered to a more interactive shoe search... trouble is, it has some newbie failure that's almost instantly apparent even to the novice. First and foremost, it's all flash. The entire store system is a full flash player -- and ...
Recently Mark Boulton published his Web Designers guide to Print Design, a needed and well founded discussion about the variations of print to the new media web. Playing off this idea, I realized I still find an eccentric amount of misconceptions in not only proper (or recommended) print design methods, ...
