I saw this ad on a programming website. I’m not sure why they thought that having a bored, sickly, stick woman would want to make me buy a sweater, but hey, whatever floats your boat. Your heroin boat, obviously.
Category: design
Sep 06
Quotable: John Moltz
“As for the Surface, Microsoft was forced to write off its unsold inventory to the tune of $900 million, which is a really lousy song. Like Coldplay, Nickelback, and Creed all got together and collaborated on a song.” –from his MacWorld article on device philosophy
Aug 19
Goo is my co-pilot
Goo is my co-pilot. This is a prime example of why it is important to choose an appropriate font when you design something. It is equally important for fonts to be designed well in the first place. Why make a font where the O and the D are virtually identical? Of course, speaking of design, …
Feb 18
This is how you respond to allegations…
Oxo responds to allegations that they are thieves with humor and style. via Daring Fireball
Jan 27
VBS 2013 Development Diary: #8: Logo
This is a pretty graphic-heavy post. When I first start working on a logo, I trial several fonts in Linotype FontExplorer, then I try them out in Illustrator to see which ones I like best, looking for things like readability, tone, and flavor. This lets me see which fonts I might want: …
Oct 15
Dipstick design
It might not be readily apparent from this photo of my dirty engine, but you are looking at an example of very good design. The small sliver of yellow you see is the dipstick. It was handy enough coloring it yellow for ease of finding it among all the black and gray of the engine …
