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A mood board I developed for a current client. “What is a...

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 01:46:00 -0400

A mood board I developed for a current client. “What is a mood board?”, you ask.

A mood board helps establish the branding, design components, typography, imagery, and color palettes that will be incorporated in the design. Much the way an interior designer will initially put together a swatch panel showing the fabrics and colors that will be used in designing a room, the mood board establishes the aesthetic direction of the site up front without negatively impacting the flow or structure of the site.

So there it is. I will post a wireframe as well as future comps of this site.

secmo: Sweet Bicycle Posters

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:50:43 -0400

secmo:

Sweet Bicycle Posters

60 Designers and the 797 Books that Inspire Them

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:43:18 -0400

60 Designers and the 797 Books that Inspire Them

"It’s our responsibility, as designers, to embrace the rules which are born of a craft which goes..."

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:27:00 -0400

“It’s our responsibility, as designers, to embrace the rules which are born of a craft which goes back hundreds of years.”

- from “Five Simple Steps to Better Typography” by Mark Boulton

The Power of a Beautiful Ampersand

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:22:04 -0400

The Power of a Beautiful Ampersand

Stationery with Geometric Heavy Design

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:10:24 -0400

Stationery with Geometric Heavy Design

Good typography makes good content better.

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 03:12:00 -0400

Good typography makes good content better.

Give Floats the Flick in CSS Layouts

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:18:47 -0400

Give Floats the Flick in CSS Layouts:

Bring your float based layouts out of 2005 and into the now with this insightful Sitepoint Tutarticle.

Beautiful and inspiring typography.

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:00:00 -0400

Beautiful and inspiring typography.

Suffering from Designer's Block?

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:39:00 -0400

Suffering from Designer's Block?:

10 Practical Ways to Bust Through Web Designer’s Block.

Grid (via @danrubin)

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:15:00 -0400

Grid (via @danrubin)

kurtcruse: These are just incredible. Blows my mind what they...

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 22:59:10 -0400

kurtcruse:

These are just incredible. Blows my mind what they were capable of 100 years ago. “Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Typography”, title pages, headings and letterforms clipped, cropped, and isolated from maps and map publications issued between about 1880 and 1920.

10 Essential Community Sites for Designers

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:44:39 -0400

angelceballos:

As a designer we try to get feedback to our work to both improve and grow as a creative thinker. Online communities help designer, developers and creative types showcase their work, gain thoughtful feedback and most importantly help expand networking possibilities.

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Cure for the Common Font

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:39:00 -0400

Cure for the Common Font:

A Web Designer’s Introduction to Typeface Selection.

Stephen Coles joins Frank Chimero, Tiffany Wardle, and Jason Santa Maria in giving a great presentation on choosing the right typeface at this year’s SXSW conference.

The Do’s and Dont’s of Typography

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:32:37 -0400

The Do’s and Dont’s of Typography

HTML & CSS In Plain English

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:14:00 -0400

Writers use sentence structure, we use HTML. Writers use parts of speech, we use CSS.

Because I think old magazines can have some of the most...

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 03:30:44 -0400

Because I think old magazines can have some of the most inspiring layouts, typography, images and color schemes a web designer could ever need.

365 PSD Bundle

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 03:24:26 -0400

365 PSD Bundle:

5cripted:

A superb bundle of design resources from 365 PSD with all proceeds going to help those in Japan

New Burial EP Coming

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 03:14:00 -0400

Really excited about this. He is dropping the release out of nowhere. It will be released on Monday, March 28. Inside is a preview from BBC Radio 1. The track is called “Street Halo”. Enjoy.

Burial - Street Halo by weallwantsome1

Web Design is 95% Typography

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:02:52 -0400

Web Design is 95% Typography