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. » 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.
MFA Designer as Author. A portable manifesto… Mind Map Art: Showcasing the World's Finest Mind Maps. The Picture Collection: SNL_1975_009. Veerle's blog 3.0 - Webdesign - XHTML CSS. Fonts : Type topics: Glossary. This section provides a small glossary of terms frequently used in the type world. alignment.
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. 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! Typefaces no one gets fired for using. Typographic Checklist. 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. 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. 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. 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. The Ministry of Type. Magazine columns and their layout options. 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.
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. 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. 2650 Vintage Vectors Ornaments, Retro Graphics - Free Downloads. 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. 50 Stylish Navigation Menus for Design Inspiration. Six Revisions Skip site navigation 50 Stylish Navigation Menus for Design Inspiration. Monochromatic Iconset _1 by ~aipotuDENG on deviantART. 30 Exceptional CSS Navigation Techniques. We’ve seen innovative ways in which designers and developers have used CSS to innovate upon its shortcomings. Epic Exquisite Corpse. Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See. Free Lecture Videos - Search Results » Free Videos » Free Tutorials » Free Classes Online.
Home : Design Is History. Adobe Illustrator 101: 10 Things You Should Know About Ai. Adobe Illustrator is one of my absolute favorite applications.