It’s not about knowing all the gimmicks and photo tricks. If you haven’t got the eye, no program will give it to you.
David Carson
I wish I had the HTML files from the first few websites I created in 1997, so I could share them with the world today. Sadly, they are lost in space. I was able to find one of the animated GIFs I used: a spinning peace sign (along with matching spinning heart and smiley) and the title of my site was Jennifer’s Cool Neat-o Homepage.
I <3 the 90s.
2Charles and Ray Eames were American designers, who worked in and made major contributions to modern architecture and furniture. They also worked in the fields of industrial and graphic design, fine art and film.
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Brand Spirit
Check out this very cool project by Andrew Miller. He is painting one iconic product per day for 100 days. The results are incredible.
Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.
Dieter Rams
Is typography an art? That’s like asking if photography is an art. Certainly there are photographers and typographers whose ideas and techniques raise their work to the level of art. But at their core, both photography and typography perform a utilitarian function. The aesthetic component is separate. Being an effective typographer is more about good skills than good taste.
Matthew Butterick
(Source: typographyforlawyers.com)
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Web design is 95% typography.
2 Startups, this is how design works.
Excellent read. Not just for startups. Deiter Rams’ name has been popping up so much around me lately. His “10 Principles of Good Design” are enough to take away from this site even if you don’t read any further than that.
My moo.com order just arrived. Fantastic!
3Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
Paul Rand
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It’s too bad that many of these classic logos by Paul Rand have been replaced—and Ford really should consider using Rand’s version.
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1Design is a Universal Language
I just finished some production work for the Vietnamese, Korean and Chinese Easy Voter Guides. I only changed the text from one language to another; nothing glamorous, but it’s always interesting working in multiple languages.
