Aug62010
Tara Maxwell
This fantastic article was just posted the first of this month and has a great collection of “25 HTML5 Features, Tips, and Techniques You Must Know” by Jeffrey Way on net.tutsplus.com. I learned quite a bit from reading this article, which can be read in its entirety in less than 30 minutes without having to click links to other sites to get the “full” information.
A few of the things I learned which will save tons of time in future projects are: Continue Reading >
Jun252010
Chris Gupton
This video has the designer talking about some of the other marks that didn’t make it and some of the thoughts behind the Obama logo.
Whether you like Obama or not you have to admit his logo stands out as something different than past candidates.
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Jun102010
Tara Maxwell
As usual, I’ve been incredibly busy lately, and there have been a TON of great articles tweeted out that I’ve wanted to blog about. Since I’m short on time, I’ll just mention a few articles that are really, really informative and/or inspirational. And instead of sticking with just one topic like I’ve done in the past, this collection of links are quite diverse – from cool billboards to Google to typographic effects in portraits.
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Jun42010
Scott Piggott
Apple has put together an overview of some of the capabilities of HTML5 and CSS3 with some very nice examples. Check it out at http://apple.com/html5/.
HTML5 and CSS3 will enable a rich web unlike anything we’ve ever experienced before. The use of rich typography (without plugins) alone is going to change the visual quality of the web while providing an unparalleled user experience. The typographical revolution of the web is upon us!
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Jun22010
Jeffrey L. Cohen
There is a lot of talk about getting your B2B company ready for social media, but once you understand and make the internal changes, make sure you look at your logo to see if it is ready for social media. This is a new challenge that is facing designers and enforcers of brand standards, because while companies are used to having horizontal logos and vertical logos, the new social media standard logo is the square.
Continue Reading on SocialMediaB2B.com.
Jun22010
Karlie Justus
I love a good infographic – from The State of the Internet and Fanboys: A Field Guide to Facebook’s Maze of Privacy Settings and Sci-Fi Movie Quotes in graphic form – I like getting statistical information in an easy-to-understand, well-designed (and sometimes humorous) snapshot.
You’ll notice all of the infographics above link to Cool Infographics, one of my favorite blogs to mine for new images. It alerted me to Ionz, a digital branding company that has an interactive, DIY infographic creator set up on its site. Continue Reading >
May192010
Lisa Powell
Check out the the brick artist who creates all kinds of things out of legos for a living. You may have seen his work before he has been on Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel and he has a show The Art of the Brick touring Museums across the country. Continue Reading >