I’ve mentioned political typography here before, and the Times blog piece linked below is just an extension of that discussion. What I want to draw your attention to is what I think might be the first ever appearance of Comic Sans in the gray lady:
Change you better believe in.
Thanks for the link, Maggie!
To the Letter [...]
He brought his own frustrated consumer experiences to bear in creating the business model, and eliminated many of the usual array of motor-oil choices—startup, high-mileage, various blends—from his inventory. “You get the shit out of the ground,” he said, referring to standard Castrol GTX, “or the shit made in the laboratory that’s the perfect lubricant” [...]
It seems the topic of failure is coming up a lot lately in the design blogs I read. Perhaps we’re all collectively dreading our Q1 reviews.
Lame joking aside, this passage resonates right now as Maggie and I are building up her bookbinding empire, which is arguably a design process within a business context. As we [...]
Fellow Fitster Noor is blogging her experience at SXSW Interactive. She has an insightful post up describing her first impressions as a conference “nobody.”
Today marked my third day at SXSW and it has been a really bizarre experience. There are times when I feel like I’ve been swallowed whole into the tubes of the interwebs. [...]
Should an art museum website exist to drive more people to the physical museum? Or should it focus on emulating some of the qualities of the museum experience like exploration, curiosity, research?
I strongly believe the latter, though I understand the reasons why museum sites tend toward the mundane. Of course, my ideal museum website does [...]
This is the kind of design I wish more newspapers would embrace. The text-graphic combination is a useful format when you need to present complex information. Additionally, you can load this format up with a lot of information without it feeling overwhelming. Unfortunately most newspapers usually opt for the brain numbing USA Today-style “factoids” when [...]
Contrast, size, hierarchy, and space – excellent rules of thumb for novices and pros alike.
Let your type breathe. Don’t be afraid to leave blank spaces in your pages. This negative or white space will help focus attention on the text — and it’s the text that speaks loudest, so let it be heard. Next, remember the line-height [...]
A great example of designing for the long now.
The new repository is intended to be an insurance policy for individual countries and also for humanity more generally, should larger-scale disaster strike (anything from pestilence to an asteroid impact).
The Norwegian government put up more than $7 million for construction. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is [...]
This is a really clever way to evaluate whether a typeface suits the task: apply the text and type to a completely different context and see if it feels comfortable.
Ask H&FJ | Hoefler & Frere-Jones
The organizational psychologist in me loves to read insider accounts of life at innovative organizations like Google.
10 Insights From 11 Months Of Working At Google | Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Avinash’s blog and book are must-reads for anyone interested in web analytics.
Sans Comic Sans is written by Matt Raw in Brooklyn, NY.