Saving a city with a serif
Fonts can become synonymous with brands. Picture, for example, “Yahoo”, “Disney”, or the masthead for “The New York Times”; in…
Futuristic typeface echoes art nouveau designs
Is there anything better than a font named after the Spanish word for cockroach? Maybe a font named after that…
Talking about the new American Airlines logo
There was a time, not so long ago, when flying was considered a glamorous experience, something people aspire to do,…
Extraordinary heat-sensitive stationery
If a company’s branding materials should seek to leave a mark, then Austrian design studio Bureau Rabensteiner has more than…
Design fundamentals: constraints
The concept of constraints in design can be defined as the practice of limiting user actions on a system. Constraints…
10 things HBO’s Girls can teach you about design
Even if you haven’t seen the show, you’ve almost certainly heard of HBO’s hit Girls, created by and starring Lena…
Typographic furniture
While typography is typically a two-dimensional proposition, the communication design students at the University of Applied Science in Dusseldorf have…
Superb redesign will save lives
One of the most challenging briefs any designer can take on is to design for a cross-cultural organization that needs…
The new rules of the responsive web
Responsive web design has become a near ubiquitous buzzword on the web. Try searching for #rwd on Twitter to find…
19 approaches to color
With over 9 billion indexed sites on the web and counting, sites are having to do more to get noticed…
How to build user confidence in your UI
The key to great user interface design is user confidence. But designing user confidence isn’t the easiest thing in the…
Flat design vs. skeuomorphism
It seems that there has been a line drawn in the sand. A few brave design pioneers have all but…
Barry McGee’s monumental mural
What do you get when you cross an eccentric street artist, a traditional car manufacturer, and a trendy publication? You…
Friday fun with Beertone
Pantone recently released its chosen color of the year, emerald green. But ask the advertising duo behind the new beer…
The stunning natural phenomenon of light pillars
In our technologically driven society, it’s tempting to exclusively draw inspiration from electronic sources. A creative block hits and soon…
What responsive design is not
Every year the world of web design gets a new catch phrase that trends on just about every discussion platform…
The device-agnostic approach to responsive design
Techniques, technology and terminology change constantly in web design, and keeping up with them is crucial to your success in…
Typographic art
Good typography is an art: choosing the best type to complement the meaning of the content, balancing sizes and spacing…