Tag Archives: typography

Christmas Gift Ideas For Your Designer-Husband

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Buy Them for Him Now. Please.

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Grids Grids Grids

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Great typographic grid. Found on Site Inspire.

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The Cutting Room Floor

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Great article from iA about a newspaper redesign pitch they lost. The best part is their thinking behind the blue highlighted text: Scannability and print link: Make the articles scannable by using key words in blue. If you speak German you can actually read the front page in 20 seconds by flying over the blue [...]

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Beautiful and Simple WordPress Theme

Neutica is a simple and clean WordPress theme based around Sandbox. It celebrates the much-used and oft-oversued Helvetica Neue type aesthetic. Check it out.

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Go Play With Fonts

Using letter-forms from the Asian character-set, Yugo and Tha Ltd. have created a fun and playful way of making images from fonts. Make, view and share your own.

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In The End, The Experience Is What Counts

Surfing the interwebs today I came across the company portfolio site of Seymour Powell, a London-based design consultancy, and was reminded of a fundamental thought: Everyone can agree that no amount of bad-ass graphics, PaperVision trickery (and I DO LOVE PaperVision trickery) or Flash wizardry can make up for a bad experience. But it’s also [...]

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Fresh Calendar Design

A while back I read an article about an info-design challenge. The task was to improve pocket-calendar design. While some of the entries showcased were wonky and confusing some were elegant and beautiful. None, however, as beautiful as the above image I ffffound. I’m not sure how this will read when printed tiny, in fact, [...]

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