One of my students sent me a link to this quiz on “which type are you.” Not only did I enjoy it from a type geek perspective, but also from a design perspective. The video quiz flows nicely, uses visual verbal rhetoric well, and has a clear personality. It is cleverly designed. I quite enjoyed […]
If you are a designer and just don’t know what to do about color, this article “Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color” provides some great information on color. It is a nice starting place with info warm, cool, and neutral colors; primary and secondary colors; the meanings of the colors; and […]
Here is another typography joke:
If you don’t get this joke, poor Comic Sans is probably one of the most hated typefaces in the world. It was created in 1994 by Vincent Connare for Microsoft. He created it as a more appropriate typeface for Microsoft Bob to speak in in speech bubbles than Times New Roman […]
Do you have problems selecting good typefaces for your digital media? Here are a few tips I posted a while ago (see Interested in New Microsoft Typefaces? In Screen Readability?). Since they were part of another post, I thought it may be helpful to post them seperately.
When choosing your typefaces for screen use and screen […]
I got quite the laugh from this. Thanks to Bill (of Talking Traffic) for sending this to me:
I viewed this on The Rejectionist, which cites Fuck Yeah, Puns!.
Some things never change…
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I recently discovered this handy and fun color theme website: Kuler where we can “explore, create, and share color themes.” It can be used for any color design you want from blogs, websites, digital media project, even to select paint colors for your own house, as the video by Adobe states. The themes work with […]
This is just a bad bar chart. (Presentation Zen’s larger size image)
The really sad part is, this is a fairly common mistake (well not this exactly, but a similar application of the idea behind this). The blog I link to, Presentation Zen has some great comments. Do check them out.
Among other various issues […]
After a semester of teaching Document Design, I am even more of a typographyphile. So I found this post on handmade typography–with faces made from leaves, sticky notes, food, hair, and more–interesting. What a great project this would make in a class! “Go out and make your typeface with stuff–items in your life. Take a […]
In Episode 9 of Screen Space: Design 101b (Some Basic Vocabulary)
Welcome to Screen Space your podcast about creating usable, accessible, effective, and efficient web, blog, and new media design for the everyday (and non-expert) designer. It is September 7th, and this is Episode 9 of Screen Space: Design 101b (Some Basic Vocabulary). The episode focuses […]
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