What is an Art Director?

Apr82010
Chris Gupton

When people ask me what I do, it’s often difficult to describe. I found this interesting article that does a really good job of breaking down exactly what an Art Director does.

In particular, it introduces readers to the principles and techniques of the Art Director, and  how those techniques can influence the overall effectiveness of a website. Read article.

Stefan Sagmeister shares happy design

Apr12010
Chris Gupton

Stefan Sagmeister is one of my favorite designers of all-time.

Wordle.net – Make Images From Keywords

Mar92010
Joshua Craig

Wordle is a great service which will take an RSS feed from your site (or anybody else’s site) and convert it to an image.  Larger words are found more often, smaller words are found less.

Here are a couple of examples.

From our very own blog (http://www.merrellgroup.com/blog/feed/):

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And from my personal site (http://www.joshuarcraig.net/feed/):

joshuarcraig_wordle

Go try it out for yourself!

Reflections on Layer Tennis

Mar302009
Scott Piggott

Jason Santa Maria’s notes on last week’s Layer Tennis match.

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Design can make you happy

Mar232009
Chris Gupton

This guy is my favorite all time Designer/Artist

Stefan Sagmeister