This is a great interview concerning the overuse of Helvetica by designers. I totally agree with the last sentiment in the photograph above. People use ...
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Check this out for a weird & nerdy event wherein two typographers designed type collaboratively over the internet in the style of a Photoshop Tennis ...
Plan59 is the "The Museum and Gift Shop of Mid-Century Illustration." It's an interesting archive of images for use as reference material - please note ...
Ok new link to the artist himself: Denis Brown.
From inspirationlab. An interesting site!
Click the pic for some interesting comparisons of the (almost 50 year old) Porsche 911.
Adobe's creative suite CS5 was announced yesterday, April 12. It looks like a huge update with many features I would have never imagined possible. A ...
Deep stuff.
Adobe is set to unveil CS5 in a couple of weeks, April 12, 2010. Please note that is not the release date. More info on ...
This one goes out to people designing for the internet. Click the image to see it open in a new window and then click it ...
Ditoria from typometro on Vimeo. Interesting letterpress video. The dance of craft. The joy of making. The computer is so dry and boring a tool for ...
Yeah this is a week or two late but it's still a very interesting overview of Olympics symbols used over the years. Enjoy! Olympic Pictograms at ...
Fontstruct is an online font editor that creates pixel fonts that are intended for use in Flash. You can make a Truetype font with it ...
information aesthetics: Where form follows data. Good stuff.
Great idea. The site looks like it just started. There's not much content up yet but I love the idea of using stencils and mud ...
It's free and open source. It will export vectors for $10. Interesting.
The type below benefits from hinting, which keeps strokes from getting too thick as well as emphasizing key characteristics. Here's an interesting read from the ...
This article is written specifically with computer application icons in mind but I think the most of these rules apply more broadly to icons in ...
more great diagrams from Lunchbreath
Check out his typeface design portfolio. He's got lots of cool type made from physical objects or drawn to look like it's made from physical ...
LiveSurface is an interesting stock image service that specializes in surfaces to use in for mocking up your designs. The book designs shown above have ...
Neat flash animation about color including interesting cultural references and emotional connotations. Enjoy!
That's really great. More info and pics here. Thanks for the link, Tiberius.
This is a great comparison of the differences between Arial and Helvetica. Note how Arial is such a mess of references compared to Helvetica's consistency. ...
Mrs. King and I have a little website about architecture called modernphoenix.net and we just received a Best of Phoenix award from the Phoenix New ...