A few days late, but I thought it would be a nice idea to mark the end of what ironically always feels like the longest (and darkest) month here in Montreal with a long and chunky post filled with inspirational images selected from all my various feeds. Hope you enjoy the collection, and if there’s a modicum of interest, maybe I’ll make this into a regular feature.
The latest redesign of the design content site Thinking for a Living is turning web paradigms onto their side. With mobile standards in mind, an intuitive and simplified navigation, alongside a very refined approach to web typography, I have a feeling that this site could really change how we design for the web. Built with XHTML/CSS and jQuery, the site is delivered through Wordpress but feels nothing like it…
It’s a site I’ve often visited for their quality content and design coverage, which is generally more in-depth and better written than most design “blogs” out there (yours truly included). Now it’s even easier on the eyes and provides a really fluid reading experience. Way to go guys. Hopefully this thoughtful, holistic, and detail-oriented approach to design serving content catches on.
Read about the redesign in the first issue here.
I quickly whipped up these poemcards to promote the upcoming issue at expozine. Click on the image above to view the individual cards. Just a little taste of things to come.
A while back I mentioned a series of art posters I had designed to promote and raise funds for 2356. So finally, here they are! If you’re interested in purchasing one or more and supporting the cause, please drop me a line. Size is in and around 12″ x 18″, printed digitally on matte archival stock. More designs will be coming soon once I get the new studio set up (pics of that will be coming soon too!).
Some great news for web designers/integrators who truly care about good typographic standards (I know there are some of you out there!). My former co-worker Stephane Curzi introduces Baseline, a designer framework that beautifully translates classical typographic standards to the web. Baseline is elegant, flexible and robust and it’s available as a free download that contains CSS files, a Photoshop document and a full set of HTML templates.
Its initiatives like these, with their minute attention to detail, that will finally make the web worth reading. Good work Stephane!
Emanuelle Enchanted was a collaborative typography project conducted by my fellow students and I during our MA course at the London College of Printing in 2004. The two-day project was based on a brief by tutor Paul McNeil that instructed us to design selected extracts from experimental theatre company Forced Entertainment’s play of the same name. The results, when seen as a whole are pretty impressive, and I’m reminded of how lucky I was at the time to be surrounded by so many talented individuals.
Part two after the jump.
Here’s a beautiful set of sexy “illuminated” letters designed by Airside for Wallpaper’s Sex & Art issue. Graphic, in both senses of the word. You can find the backstory, sketches, and more visuals on Airside’s Blog.
Isn’t the internet GREAT? Shortly after posting Paranoid to the public domain, Ukranian (type) designer Sergiy S. Tkachenko sent me an email with a reworking of paranoid that includes a few extra glyphs as well as the cyrillic components. Thanks so much Sergiy, the zero glyph is super sexy…
Download Paranoid (updated file)
