A year ago I posted web design trends for 2011, many of which evolved to different extends throughout the year and will continue this year. So here are my 2012 predictions for trends in visual design for the web.
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Oct 2011
London Olympics logo lacks London?
Graphic communication that uses distinct styles and reveals the personality of it’s cultural environment is far more powerful and memorable — look at the rich, vibrant visual language used on the streets of India or Japan. Does the London Olympics logo have anything to do with the strong historic visual culture of London?
Oct 2011
Designing outside the rectangle
New UI design opportunities are becoming available as we adopt 3D technologies, augmented reality and gesture based control. Screens will evolve from rectangles that we look through, in to destinations we can move in to. While augmented reality enables the user interface to exist along side the real world.
Oct 2011
Typo London Places 2011 review and summary
I’ve just had three full days at the inaugural Typo London conference. Here are the top 15 insightful and interesting points I got, all based from talks by the follow speakers: Nat Hunter, Kutlu Çanlıoğlu and Titus Nemeth, Jonathan Ellery, Tony Brook, Joachim Sauter, Tom Uglow, and Jeff Faulkner.
Sep 2011
OnLive UK first impressions
The OnLive cloud based gaming service was fairly ground breaking announcement a few years ago and I have been anxious to see how it compares to my xbox 360 and PS3.
Jun 2011
Ampersand Conference 2011
Brighton, Friday June 17, 2011 — one of the first conferences devoted specifically to web typography. I still find it hard to believe we’ve finally reached this era. Designers can now use a wider variety of faces and apply typographic control to HTML using fonts that have been specially designed for screen use. It’s certainly […]
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