Month: August 2010

  • AngryPaulRand: That scary, panicked feeling when you start a project and just have a blank page? That’s graphic design Viagra. Original Tweet via: @AngryPaulRand

  • lonegunman: zomg: via mthruf.files.wordpress.com

  • Great proportions melt away impurities in a design. So if you have buttons and there’s too much space between them, the space between them is another element that you have to comprehend. So if you have two buttons, you now have three objects. You’ve got the button, the button, the space. But if things are…

  • Don’t become dependent on having other people pull it out of you while you’re in school. If you do, you’re hosed once you graduate. Frank Chimero

  • I’m co-creating a new book—The Design Activist’s Handbook—with writer Michelle Taute, which will be published by HOW Books next year. Rather than fill it with case studies, we’re hoping to make this a practical guide to aligning your design career with your beliefs. We’re hoping you might be able to help us provide some inspiring…

  • Cameron Moll at LessConf3010 Less Everything Blog

    Cameron Moll at LessConf3010 Less Everything Blog Video of Cameron Molls’ presentation on Good vs. Great Design at the Less Conference of 2010. via: Swiss Miss and the handouts from his talk are available at Moll’s website.

  • thoughtsofsomething: You can print this out, follow the directions and wear this bracelet!!!! Pretty cool, eh? Oh yeah, btw it’s FREE to download (Click on 04) courtesy of Goncalo Campos. OK Great couldn’t have been more happier and neither can I! (via OK Great)

  • trashyelegance: designed by Fred and Friends

  • trifunkalicious: Toby Ng designed some really fantastic posters titled If The World Were A Village of 100 People. These posters are built on the statistics of the world. I am going to try to post all 20 over the next couple weeks. To view some of the others I have posted use the search option with…

  • FedEx Logo

    FedEx Logo alexainslie: Did you have to manipulate the font in anyway to create a perfect arrow? Yes, indeed. I was studying Univers 67 (Bold Condensed) and Futura Bold, both wonderful faces. But each had its potential limitations downstream in application to thousands of FedEx media, from waybills and embroidered courier caps to FedEx.com and…