It is the rare combination of the designer’s intelligence, intuition, inspiration, and aesthetic sense—dare I say talent?—that makes for successful design.
Source: designmind.frogdesign.com
Early Venetian Printing Illustrated
Have always enjoyed the typography and art found in early illuminated manuscripts. Something about the line work and ornate letter forms really appeals to me.
Browsing around some typography websites the other day I came across mention of a book titled, Early Venetian Printing. It’s apparently extremely rare, but the Internet Archive has both scanned copies (in PDF format) and an online version for viewing.
A collection of facsimile illustrations of pages from early printed books, initials, borders, title-pages, printers’ marks, art bindings, etc., with short introductions by Carlo Castellani (p. 9-[20]) on Venetian printing, printers’ marks, water-marks and music printing; also a note on bindings (p. 217-218)
Think I might have found inspiration for future tattoo work… if I can only draw in cat heads for all the figures.
Source: archive.org
The Secret Law of Page Harmony
A method to produce the perfect book.
So You Need A Typeface Poster (via Scribble)
24 x 18” Art Print
$22.00
Looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed today.
(Via Passive Aggressive Notes)
Sounds about right to me.
(via Freelance Freedom)
for moustache lovers… who also love type.
via wit + delight
Source: katearends.com
Source: maniacalrage
Designers are in a constant process of weighing each decision against previous ones, against common conventions and against the user’s goals in order to create an interface, a product or a service that is clear in all its meaning and function. There is no denying the difficulty in this process. There is a delicate balance between the simplicity of use and the complexity of usefulness. But it is true the product that is clear in its purpose, elegant in its execution and simple in its use will set itself apart from the competition and endear itself to the user.
(via Joshua Brewer)
Funny how the words make it pop or sizzle are absent from this quote…
I just Geocities-ized my website using the Geocities-izer. I feel like I’m back in high school and it’s 1997 all over again! AOL 3.0 on a 14.4k modem was the best…
LOST Minimalist Posters
Minimalist poster designs by Gideon Slife for the first 78 episodes (seasons 1–4) of the television series LOST.
Now this is my kind of client!
Client: “Make the numbers in our phone number capitalized to stand out more”
Me: “That’s not possible…”
Client: “Just hold the SHIFT key and type our phone number!”
Source: clientsfromhell
