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Designing type systems
I remember a conversation from back in my student days where my typophile friends and I debated what the ultimate typeface of the twentieth century was, a typeface that summed up all of the era’s advancements and knowledge into a coherent whole, one that would be a reference for years to come. Helvetica was one of the candidates for its sheer ubiquity, proof of its overall acceptance. Another, more subtle proposal was Jan van Krimpen’s Romulus, one of the first typefaces to have related Sans and Serif versions. And another, my personal pick, was Univers by Adrian Frutiger.
Simple Design Solutions: Learn a Thing or Two from IKEA - Designer Blog Designer Blog
Design is about thinking on your feet — coming up with simple design solutions to problems that are often very complicated. In a great example of keeping it simple, IKEA created a brilliant product for the launch of their iPAD catalogue in Norway: the Ikea Beröra . It’s a sewing kit equipped with specialized conductive thread to sew into a glove, so gloved users in frigid countries like Norway could use their iPad outside without freezing their fingers.
Graphic Design, Referenced by Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit
Graphic Design, Referenced is a visual and informational guide to the most commonly referenced terms, historical moments, landmark projects, and influential practitioners in the field of graphic design. With more than 2,000 design projects illustrating more than 400 entries, it provides an intense overview of the varied elements that make up the graphic design profession through a unique set of chapters: principles defines the very basic foundation of what constitutes graphic design to establish the language, terms, and concepts that govern what we do and how we do it, covering layout, typography, and printing terms. knowledge explores the most influential sources through which we learn about graphic design from the educational institutions we attend to the magazines and books we read. representatives gathers the designers who over the years have proven the most prominent or have steered the course of graphic design in one way or another.You can’t really, but you have to start somewhere. Big global brands such as Nike and IKEA are large enough in revenues to surpass the GDP of a small country. However, their brands are managed better than most countries. This is a shame because powerful country brands that are carefully managed tend to yield massive benefits for tourism, industry, politics and culture. These benefits are discussed and covered extensively elsewhere e.g. by Wally Olins in his book On Brand. In this paper I will only concern myself with what’s new, innovative and interesting ways of building country brands beyond the usual strategy of: let’s have a logo, an end-line and a few celebrity endorsements.
How do you build a country brand? - NATION BRANDING
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) has been existed since 1984 with the primary objective to spread some really great ideas and experience related with technology, entertainment and design. You might not be familiar with this conference, but seriously, cool technological devices like Xbox Kinect is inspired by one of TED’s talk . (Image Source: TED ) For sure it’s not just about complicated technology or hardcore design theory. TED is flooded by top-notch and innovative designers, developers and scholars, namely Tim-Bernett Lee, Don Norman, and Dennis Dutton, who are willing to share their life story, experience and vision for greater benefit of the world. Since we web designer are a hybrid of web developer and graphic designer, I’m going to introduce you 10 unmissable TED videos that either explore the way to create great design, or urges you to think big in your design career, or even predict the next 5000 days of the web.
10 Unmissable TED Videos For Designers
Color Theory for the Color Blind | Webdesigntuts+
Color blindness is a mild disability through which the affected experience a decreased ability to distinguish colors from others. This can be a real drawback for anyone in the design field since color theory is an integral feature in successful design, and a lot of decisions are based on the feeling and emotion derived from design decisions, rather than a generic set of guidelines and taxonomies. You’ve probably heard a lot about accessibility in web design already; it’s important to cater for the widest audience, who could potentially have problems with your website if not designed in the right way. As a bonus, we’ll touch on that a bit later, but the main focus of this article is actually looking at how a color-blind designer can still successfully tailor a website’s design.
A Guide to Creating Professional Quality Logo Designs
Logo design is often seen as a quick and easy job; you create a small graphic, stick it next to some text and the job is done! In reality there’s a lot more to it, which makes the whole process of creating a logo or identity a challenging task. Let’s take a look at some of the general rules of logo design, see what guidelines we should stick to in order to build high quality logos, and see how they can all be put into practice to create a logo design that works in the real world. It’s easy listing out a bunch of logo design rules, but to make this post a little more useful and insightful I decided to show I would implement each pointer into a design of my own. To do so I created a logo for a fictional web hosting company named Media Stack , and dealt with the project as if it was for real (just without the client communication).
Crossing the Creative Divide: Three Intrinsic Attributes of Creativity | UX Magazine
There’s been some talk lately about creativity, creative advantage, or, as Bruce Nussbaum puts it, Creative Intelligence or Creative Quotient (CQ) . This is great; for the first time in a while, creativity is being heralded as a valuable attribute in business and innovation, and is a more understandable concept than perhaps “design thinking.” Moreover, creative practice in many disciplines, including many MBA programs, is being touted as the critical ingredient for innovation. Check out what the Rotman School of Management (and others) has been doing, or read Roger Martin’s book, The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage .
Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along and changes everything. We have been very fortunate to live in this generation which has transformed the conventional design culture into a uber-geeky one. Companies are continually striving to create new products equipped with cutting edge technologies. Such nail biting competitions can only most often give way to innovation and progress. Today, we are on the verge of a technological breakthrough where our handheld devices are becoming faster than our desktops and laptops.
What makes a great product design? From thoughts to reality | Richworks
The Elements Of Design Part I: Introduction | Van SEO Design
Last week I walked through some definitions of visual grammar . We talked about objects and structures, both abstract and concrete, as well as activities and relations. These objects and structures make up most of the design elements we have at our disposal.
When it comes to working with elements in a design we have two basic classes to work with. We have positive forms and negative space. The most basic form we can use is the abstract point or it’s concrete sibling the dot. We can build up points or dots so they become lines which is our second most basic element. Points or dots and lines have distinct characteristics and functions.
Points, Dots, And Lines: The Elements Of Design Part II | Van SEO Design
Forms: Surfaces And Planes, Volumes And Mass: The Elements Of Design Part III | Van SEO Design
Last week we looked at zero and one dimensional elements, namely the point or dot and the line . This week we’ll add a couple of dimensions and talk about surfaces and planes (2D) and then move on to volumes (3D). Throughout we’ll consider the ideas of visual mass and weight.Structures, specifically patterns and textures, are used to differentiate one form from another and a form from it’s surrounding space . They also add interest, depth, and a sense of realism to your design. They can be added to individual forms or to the space around forms and they are created through organized or random structuring of elements.
Structures As Patterns and Textures: The Elements Of Design Part IV | Van SEO Design
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