Category: words

  • The Kindle platform is a convergence of these two worlds. Because they are still books, eBook editions demand the experienced eye of a typesetter and book designer. Yet each Kindle edition, under the surface, is constructed using web-page HTML markeup and making a book with fine layout and typography requires web-language and web design expertise…

  • As a publisher we are not necessarily looking for 800 different font choices,” says Savikas. “But even at this early stage we are looking for a set of standard fonts that guaranteed to be in any device or software. “It was frustrating to contrast the Kindle’s limited fonts with that of the iPhone, which has…

  • kenfrederick: the branding comedy daniela meloni

  • “To Present. To Explain. To Guide.” a workshop and exhibition in Poland on the work of Krzysztof Lenk | Information Design

    We cordially invite for the exhibition and the open lecture. Assuming over twenty years experience in information design teaching. The results of the tasks will be presented as well as the process of solving problems. We have just finished publishing a bilingual catalogue of 108 pages documenting the program. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TO PRESENT hidden and difficult…

  • roomthily: Biogram, part of the visual identity for the Norwegian University of Life Science – the size of the dots can be changed by date via rules based design

  • romanzolotarev: KISSmetrics Infographic: How Do Colors Affect Purchases? Believe it or not, the colors that retailers and marketers use in their stores and advertisements strongly influence the consumer in different ways. Here is a graphic we created for KISSmetrics that looks at these colors and what they do to the consumer when they are trying…

  • The Art Damien Hirst Stole

  • The art market: Hands up for Hirst | The Economist

    The art market: Hands up for Hirst | The Economist

  • This might be an old one, but I just recently heard about it while catching up on my favorite economy and finance Podcast — the brilliantly home-spun Planet Money. In it they are talking about their project to tell the story of how a t-shirt is being made..by making a t-shirt, from buying the bales…