Jan 20th, 2010
added touch of type
So, the wonderfully amazing exciting fantastic world of design! We are surrounded by this amazing thing called design all the time, it’s everywhere and anywhere! For my ilearn I decided to focus on an area in this crazy but wonderfully awesome world of Design! Typography, the art of arranging type, type design and modifying type [...]
Nov 11th, 2009
And the heat is on
If you’ve ever worked in design in marketing or advertising, whether online or traditional mediums, you’ll know that clients expect you to come up with creative that works miracles. I’m currently working with a client, for example, who expects me to create ads that will help sell their totally BS money-making, enviro-sucking hotel development as [...]
Oct 28th, 2009
Is this the future of online media buying?
make a big splash then go cost-effective? what do you think?
Oct 15th, 2009
CTA’s – Bananas and Monkeys
Call to action in web design is a term used for elements in a web page that produce an action from the user. The most popular example of call to action in web is in the form of clickable buttons- when clicked, they perform an action. Think of it like this, your CTA(call to action) [...]
Oct 8th, 2009
Creativity for dummies
Why should I care about my handwriting (or indeed allow myself to be placated by such an insipid insult about the rest of my being)? Well, thanks to FontCapture.com, and Killer Startups who found FontCapture and broadcasted it to the world, my handwriting is now actually something I can use to make the world a prettier place.
Sep 28th, 2009
Concept Feedback
Crowdsourcing. The wisdom of crowds. Outsourcing to the masses....the basis upon which Wikipedia was founded. Essentially a "Two heads are better than one" idea which the internet, naturally works well at facilitating.
Sep 23rd, 2009
Written in the stars, on the web
Meanwhile, for those who are disciplined (or self righteous) enough to actually at least try do work, rather than find reasons for not working written in the stars, MakeUseOf has found five inspirational design concept websites this week (check all five out here) to help you feel all creative and clever.
Aug 4th, 2009
1000 drawings comes to SA
Attention! If you can draw, 1000 drawings is an initiative that gives you the opportunity to use your sketches and doodles to do good.
Jul 23rd, 2009
Life by Design
Thanks to a general lack of imagination and something called the building code, the average building is pretty boring. Brick. Glass. Cement. Maybe some, ooh, steel. Meh. On any average day in any average place it's pretty hard to find inspiration from the buildings surrounding us. Unless you are going to be living in Delft in the Netherlands post-2014 and plan to take the train a lot, that is
Jul 21st, 2009
The write drive
Take two typographers and some custom software add a pro driver and you've got an amazing new font created for Toyota. Awesome 'making of' video.
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