Edward Tufte’s “Slopegraphs” After you read this post, you’ll probably want to check out the follow-up, A Slopegraph Update. Back in 2004, Edward Tufte defined and developed the concept of a “sparkline”. Odds are good that — if you’re reading this — you’re familiar with them and how popular they’ve become. What’s interesting is that over 20 years before sparklines came on the scene, Tufte developed a different type of data visualization that didn’t fare nearly as well. To date, in fact, I’ve only been able to find three examples of it, and even they aren’t completely in line with his vision. It’s curious that it hasn’t become more popular, as the chart type is quite elegant and aligns with all of Tufte’s best practices for data visualization, and was created by the master of information design. Why haven’t these charts (christened “slopegraphs” by Tufte about a month ago) taken off the way sparklines did?
The Table-Graphic Tufte, Edward. As Tufte notes in his book, this type of chart is useful for seeing: That’s it. » 50+ Excellent Posters about Design. Categories: 08-05-2009--> An excellent poster on our wall would certainly catch our attention and even inspire us. For the design aspect of us here’s a collection of excellent of excellent posters that most likely you would like to be hanged on your wall and also suit your taste buds for design.
The posters mostly tells what Design is about on their personal views and how they apply it on their daily lives. I’ve spent a few hours gathering these excellent posters to share to everyone. I hope you’ll find them inspirational for yourselves as well, and maybe create one of your own and share it to us. Most Posters came from What is Graphic Design Poster Competition (Pool). Go check them out! Your Turn: Which one’s your favorite? Author | Search Results | MFA Designer as Author. CUPtopia | a portable manifesto… Mind Map Art: Showcasing the World's Finest Mind Maps. The Picture Collection: SNL_1975_009. The Inspiration Stream | Veerle's blog 3.0 - Webdesign - XHTML CSS | Graphic Design. Fonts : Type topics: Glossary.
This section provides a small glossary of terms frequently used in the type world. alignment The positioning of text within the page margins. Alignment can be flush left, flush right, justified, or centered. Flush left and flush right are sometimes referred to as left justified and right justified. ascender The part of lowercase letters (such as k, b, and d) that ascends above the x-height of the other lowercase letters in a face. baseline The imaginary line on which the majority of the characters in a typeface rest. body text The paragraphs in a document that make up the bulk of its content. Boldface A typeface that has been enhanced by rendering it in darker, thicker strokes so that it will stand out on the page.
Bullet A dot or other special character placed at the left of items in a list to show that they are individual, but related, points. cap height The height from the baseline to the top of the uppercase letters in a font. Centered character, character code character mapping color condensed dpi. Periodic Table of Typefaces on Typography Served. Large original English version HERESpanish version HEREPortuguese version HERE PRINTS, SOURCE FILES, and other Periodic Table of Typeface related goodies are available HERE The Periodic Table of Typefaces is obviously in the style of all the thousands of over-sized Periodic Table of Elements posters hanging in schools and homes around the world. This particular table lists 100 of the most popular, influential and notorious typefaces today. As with traditional periodic tables, this table presents the subject matter grouped categorically. The Table of Typefaces groups by families and classes of typefaces: sans-serif, serif, script, blackletter, glyphic, display, grotesque, realist, didone, garalde, geometric, humanist, slab-serif and mixed.
Each cell of the table lists the typeface and a one or two character "symbol" (made up by me simply based on logic), the designer, year designed and a ranking of 1 through 100. The sites used to determine the rankings are as follows : 30 Best Fonts, Downloadable Fonts, Free Fonts, Cool Fonts for Designers. Posted on 02'08 Mar Posted on March 2, 2008 along with 414 JUST™ Creative Comments – Here are 30 of the Best Fonts / Typefaces that every designer must / should own sorted by alphabetical order. There are 15 serif fonts and 15 sans-serif fonts. These fonts will last you your whole career! A brief description of what each font is best suited for is provided however are not limited to this. There are some top free cool fonts that are downloadable in this collection and some that come with your operating system… the others are not so free but they sure will help you improve your typography!
They include original PC, Mac and Truetype fonts. You may also be interested in How To Choose A Font or the Top 5 Typography Resources of all time. What does serif mean? 1. Magazines, journals, text books, corporate communication. 2. Textbooks and magazines 3. Posters, packaging, textbooks. 4. Headlines, text, logos. 5. Dictionaries and headlines. 6. Tabular materials, technical documentation, word processing. Typefaces no one gets fired for using. Typographic Checklist. By Ilene Strizver In today’s digital world, most graphic designers find themselves doing their own typesetting. In pre-digital times, typesetting was a totally separate, highly specialized craft worthy of apprenticeship and years of practice in the pursuit of mastery. Modern technology offers robust design software with myriad typesetting features.
These enable previously unimaginable ease, flexibility and creativity – but are not in themselves a guarantee of typographic proficiency. I always recommend that designers and students make a typographic checklist to help avoid committing type crimes, as well as to aid in finessing their typography. Typographic Typos Steer clear of these common type crimes: Spacing and alignment Good visual balance and alignment contribute greatly to professionally set typography.
Refinements The devil is in the details, so use these points as a guide to first-rate typography: 21 Most Used Fonts By Professional Designers. The fonts are one of the most important parts of every web Project. All though there have been many other selective collection font posts around which most of the time leads to big confusions Like which typefaces is really useful for your project or how to choose your font from the list of hundred fonts. We spent last whole week reviewing dozens of font reservoirs and typography articles about fonts usability and popularity. Finally we end up with a list of 21 Most Used Fonts by Professional Designers in Web Designing World. All the screenshots made in such a way that there is no point of confusion. You can directly check the actual preview and corresponding font type. The basic purpose behind this post is to show popular font types. there is no direct download link available for any font. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21.
Other References. Fonts In Use – Type at work in the real world. Vox-ATypI classification. In typography, the Vox-ATypI classification makes it possible to classify typefaces in eleven general classes. Devised by Maximilien Vox in 1954, it was adopted in 1962 by the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) and in 1967 as a British Standard, as British Standards Classification of Typefaces (BS 2961:1967), which is a very basic interpretation of the earlier Vox-ATypI classification. Originally a ten-part classification, Vox revised his original proposal within months to a more compact nine-part scheme.
This classification tends to group typefaces according to their main characteristics, often typical of a particular century (15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th century), based on a number of formal criteria: downstroke and upstroke, forms of serifs, stroke axis, x-height, etc. Although the Vox-ATypI classification defines archetypes of typefaces, many typefaces can exhibit the characteristics of more than one class.
Classicals[edit] Humanist[edit] Garalde[edit] Moderns[edit] Five simple steps to better typography. – April 13th, 2005 – Typography, I find, is still a bit of mystery to a lot of designers. The kind of typography I’m talking about is not your typical “What font should I use” typography but rather your “knowing your hanging punctuation from your em-dash” typography. Call me a little bit purist but this bothers me. So, in an attempt to spread the word here’s the first of five simple steps to better typography. To kick it off, part one is about the Measure.
Measure the Measure. The Measure is the name given to the width of a body of type. One point = 1/72 of an inchOne pica = 12 pointsOne em = The distance horizontally equal to the type size, in points, you are using. But, with the advent of DTP packages and the website design the following are also now used: MillimetresPixels There is an optimum width for a Measure and that is defined by the amount of characters are in the line.
CSS and fluid? What is interesting here is fluid designs on the web. The Measure and leading. Reversing out? Tracking. Nstructing the Grid. 100 Días de tipografía. The Basics of Typography. Typography is a central component of design. It gives us an understanding of the heritage behind our craft. It’s one of the primary ways we, as a society, pass on information to others. Imagine a website, a magazine or even TV without text. Typography is a subject that raises passions and it can become a consuming obsession. If this subject is relatively new to you, or perhaps something you want to know more about, then this guide can start you on that journey.
What Is Typography? From a descriptive and simplistic point-of-view, typography is the arrangement of type. For me, how typography is used in a design is deeply rooted in its overall theme, tone and message. Your choice of typefaces and your technique of setting type give your composition its character, pace and style. A simple illustration of how influential typography can be is to look at the same text with different typefaces.
Next, let’s go through a few basic typography terms and concepts. Lines Here are the five lines: Leading. The Ministry of Type. Magazine columns and their layout options | Magazine Designing. Columns are essential tools to standardize your layout. They will help you in getting order and structure of your magazine, but do resist to imprison your thinking into standard format because rigidity dulls the creativity. To avoid that trap you can play with column width and shapes. You should treat each story as a separate unit and mix the number of columns in each story. One story can be laid out on a two column grid while the other can be laid out in three, four or more column grid.
In this article we will talk more about columns as a design element and in another separated article we will talk about the width of the columns and the number of characters that would be ideal for such columns. Line length (the number of characters or words per line) is closely related to column width and those two terms should work together as a unit and since this subject is very important for proper column setup it deserves an article on its own. One column Used very rarely. Two columns Three columns. Modular Grid Pattern. Why designers should seek chaos and complexity first - Activeside of design. Verybody seem to agree on the fact that the World is complex and is getting even more complex everyday. I wouldn't discuss that, it's probably true. It seems that everyone also agrees on the fact that Simple is better than Complex and that we need simplicity in the products (material or immaterial) and services we use everyday.
Probably also true. Now, when the subject touches to Design, everyone seems to have a strong opinion too on how to obtain Simplicity: just by avoiding Complexity, right? That, I will discuss. "Ideas are cheap and plentiful" Linus Paulin (1901-1994), awarded Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Peace and one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, used to say that "the best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas". "Ideas are cheap and plentiful. In the field of Design, ideas is the raw material you play with before you start working seriously. From low to high resolution From order emerges chaos… First, the automata rule #30 develops itself as follow: The Medium Is The Message. Advertisement Since the early days of communication, humanity has been captivated by the methods it uses to convey and preserve information. How we communicate with each other defines who we are and constitutes so much of what makes a culture and an individual unique.
Over the centuries, we have seen media evolve across a wide array of channels, from print to radio to television to the Internet. Each one of these channels, or media, has its own unique characteristics, much like the people who use them. The medium through which we choose to communicate matters. When it comes to understanding these various media, one of the best to learn from is Marshall McLuhan. “The medium is the message” as a phrase sums up a much deeper communication theory, which is that the medium through which we choose to communicate holds as much, if not more, value than the message itself. On The Surface McLuhan’s theory has certainly not been neglected or forgotten. Perception of a medium plays a vital role. (al) 2650 Vintage Vectors Ornaments, Retro Graphics - Free Downloads | Vectorian. Signs of Art. Graphis, the pioneering Swiss design magazine founded by Walter Herdeg (1908-1995), published hundreds of the finest covers of any design magazine.
Designers, illustrators and artists of all kinds were given a relative free hand under the watchful eyes of Herr Herdeg. It is difficult to describe the joy I, for one, felt when a new bimonthly issue came through the mail in the familiar cardboard box. It was an event. Sure, there were Print and CA in the United States, and each had good covers. But Graphis covers were exotic by virtue of the European essence. Most cover images were independent of any text, although most were done by someone featured inside the magazine.
Some were even quite abstract, which was unusual for even the most progressive of magazines. These were usually the most difficult. (Cover artists from top to bottom: George Giusti (1955), Lee Mason (1974), Ronald Searle (1967), Walter Greider (1966)Bertram A. 50 Stylish Navigation Menus for Design Inspiration. Six Revisions Skip site navigation 50 Stylish Navigation Menus for Design Inspiration Apr 10 2009 by Jacob Gube | 39 Comments A site’s navigation menu is one of the most prominent things that users see when they first visit. There are many ways to design a navigation menu – and since almost all websites have some form of navigation – designers have to push their creative limits to build one that’s remarkable and outstanding. In this article, you’ll find a showcase of beautiful, creative, and stylish navigation menus for your inspiration. 1. netdreams.co.uk 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 15. 16. rzepak.pure.pl 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. csharpdesign.co.uk 36. 37. okb 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. toby-powell.co.uk 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50.
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