Tag: design
Saving newspapers with design
Can design save the newspaper?
Give power to designers. You can work for a small company, in a boring branch. You can have no budget, no people, but still can put your work to the highest possible level. Everyone can do it, you just need inspiration, vision and determination. And you need to remember, that to be good, is not enough.
A short, but inspiring TED presentation.
Book design is invisible
Three video clips about the design process of a book. C.S. Richardson briefly explains the history of book design, interior layout and cover design. One of his most important points is that good book design is invisible.
The Wayfinding Handbook
A review of The Wayfinding Handbook. I’d like to see a copy before buying, but it looks like a good addition to the collection.
F1 controls resemble video game
Formula One user interfaces. A quick peek at a few iterations of F1 steering wheels, if you can call still call them wheels.
Meta book covers
Books on book covers, an emerging meta-trend in cover design. Eventually, walking into a bookstore will become an Escher-esque event that blows your mind.
The League of Moveable Type
The League of Moveable Type is an attempt to bring quality open-source typography to the web. It’s an honourable pursuit and will hopefully gain some traction, but I’m not really a big fan of the name.
Canons of Page Construction
Canons of page construction. A few details about the Van de Graaf canon, used in medieval manuscripts, and Tschichold’s musings on the golden ratio.
typo/graphic posters
Typo/graphic posters, pretty much what the tile says. Loads of graphic and typographic posters for your viewing and purchasing pleasure.
Legistyles
Legistyles are a set of NetNewsWire themes from Antonio Carusone. Of course, I didn’t even realize you could apply a new stylesheet to the feed reader. I’m now using his serif, white on black theme featuring Baskerville.
Book Design Primer
A book design primer from Tom Christensen. It sums up my year at Reading in a nutshell.
Creative Characters
Creative Characters at MyFonts features an interview each month with a different type designer or foundry.