Monthly Archives: February 2008
Geeky movies, mmm, tasty
Gotham (designed by Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones) is a typeface I’ve been quite fascinated with lately. I’ve used it for the title graphic of this blog, and for a recent branding project I designed. It’s almost like a modern version of Eurostile (another of my favourites), with it’s geometric structure and dominate, almost industrial, [...]
iPhone UI review
Edward Tufte reviews the iPhone interface in this 56mb m4v video. He generally seems to think they’ve done a good job, especially as they’ve managed to remove most of the ‘computer administrative debris’ on content sections and provide rich information thanks to the high resolution screen and zoom-able interface. It avoids a deep hierarchy of [...]
Great inspirational lectures
TED (which stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an annual conference held in California. It features several lectures by industry leaders within those fields. They publish shorter, edited versions of the lectures on their site. One of which is Sagmeister’s happiness lecture. I saw Sagmeister give a 2 hour lecture in 2004 in Melbourne, very [...]
Typography
This is one of six articles I’ve written on the structural elements of graphic design. It is based on my research and intended to give a broad explanation of the basic concept of each element, this one being type. I take no responisbility for their accuracy and encourage discussion on each through the comments system.
The biggest [...]
Photoshop tutorials