Topic: design
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10 troublesome colors to avoid In your advertising
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 · Topics: color, color-palettes, design, web-design
From Design Festival: The following are some of the worst uses of color in advertising, both online and in print. Glance through and make sure you aren’t using any of the following simply as a short-term strategy to attract attention. · Go to 10 troublesome colors to avoid In your advertising →
Will Dayble: Dangerous ideas
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 · Topics: creativity, design, innovation, web-design
From TEDxUniMelb: For the last 10 years Will has been at the leading edge of web, design and storytelling. He writes university courses and teach/consult often on the same subject he does every day as a Director of Squareweave. The talk is a unique and succinct one on crowd sourcing, politics, social change and music piracy. · Watch video →
How to help a real-life knight achieve his goals
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 · Topics: brand-strategy, customer-experience, design, design-process
From Will Dayble at Smashing Magazine: This article is about design consultancy. It’s about wrangling that client who uses empty sentences like, “We want a snappy, simple experience,” or, “It should be on brand and should really pop.” It’s about commanding the room and setting a vision before moving on to wireframes and pixels. · Go to How to help a real-life knight achieve his goals →
10 ways to rescue handwriting from the grave
Friday, April 26, 2013 · Topics: calligraphy, design, handwriting, writing
From Fast Company: In The Missing Ink, Philip Hensher argues that handwriting is good for us and one of the defining behaviors that make us human. Here is his guide to help you reclaim the written word. · Go to 10 ways to rescue handwriting from the grave →
Windows of New York
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 · Topics: architecture, design, inspiration
The Windows of New York project is a weekly illustrated fix for an obsession that has increasingly grown in Jose Guizar since chance put him in this town. A product of countless steps of journey through the city streets, this is a collection of windows that somehow have caught Jose’s restless eye out from the never-ending buzz of the city. This project is part an ode to architecture and part a self-challenge to never stop looking up. · Go to Windows of New York →
How to manage client feedback
Monday, April 22, 2013 · Topics: customer-listening, design, design-business, feedback
From Fast Company: It’s never easy to hear a client critique your work. But there are ways to handle feedback that won’t create tension or cause your work to suffer. In Success by Design, Frog’s David Sherwin explains how. · Go to How to manage client feedback →
Equality Sans
Friday, April 19, 2013 · Topics: design, human-rights, marriage-rights, typography
Equality Sans is a typeface for human rights. Everyone can support the fight for equal marriage rights, and here’s one tool for anyone who chooses to lend their voice to this movement. · Go to Equality Sans →
Making sense of type classification
Thursday, April 18, 2013 · Topics: design, type-history, typography
From Smashing Magazine: Everyone knows their serifs and sans, slabs and scripts, but most classifications go much deeper than that. Type classification, while helpful, is often convoluted, confusing and even controversial. This article, distilling some of the complexities into a more understandable format, lands somewhere in the middle between the basics and genuine type nerdery — the perfect level for a practicing designer. · Go to Making sense of type classification →
