As promised, after putting everyone’s name in a hat, Stephen Emlund is the winner of Logo Lounge 1, the hardbound edition! Thanks to everyone who commented. It really helped me come up with some ideas that I’m working on, albeit very slowly.
Since I just can’t seem to leave well enough alone, I’ve decided to embrace that desire to change instead of fighting it. As a result, Use A Concept got a face lift for the start of a new academic year and is now running on WordPress. As I stated in an previous article, WordPress does have more features that make its less than designer friendly coding well worth the switch from Movable Type.
As I have asked for in the past, I’m asking for again, but this time with a bribe. I still want to know what content you want to see on this blog! Really give it some thought. It’s your chance to build a resource that caters to your specific needs as a student. Do you want podcasts and videos that are produced specifically for you? Do you want more articles that give you advice and feedback or is simply gathering all the articles from across the internet enough?
Post your comments here, with specific details, and those commentors who take this task seriously will be entered in a drawing for a free copy (shipping included) of Logo Lounge 1, hardback edition. The drawing will be held on September 30th. Remember to include your email address when posting or I wont be able to contact the winner.
From the creators of I Love Typography come We Love Typography. Kind of like a ffffound, but for type and curated by super type lovers! You can search by subject, color, style, designer – just search! just look! the site is FILLED with inspiration!
I found this 1991 interview on YouTube where designer Miggs Burroughs interviews Paul Rand. While not the wittiest of conversations, Miggs does let Rand go off on tangents where he does make some profound comments.
Vincent Connare designed the ubiquitous, bubbly Comic Sans typeface, but he sympathizes with the world-wide movement to ban it.
Mr. Connare has looked on, alternately amused and mortified, as Comic Sans has spread from a software project at Microsoft Corp. 15 years ago to grade-school fliers and holiday newsletters, Disney ads and Beanie Baby tags, business emails, street signs, Bibles, porn sites, gravestones and hospital posters about bowel cancer.
The font, a casual script designed to look like comic-book lettering, is the bane of graphic designers, other aesthetes and Internet geeks. It is a punch line: “Comic Sans walks into a bar, bartender says, ‘We don’t serve your type.’” On social-messaging site Twitter, complaints about the font pop up every minute or two. An online comic strip shows a gang kicking and swearing at Mr. Connare.
The jolly typeface has spawned the Ban Comic Sans movement, nearly a decade old but stronger now than ever, thanks to the Web. The mission: “to eradicate this font” and the “evil of typographical ignorance.”
I found the following interview with Ira Glass of NPR’s This American Life fame (if you don’t listen to this, it’s time to start). While Ira maybe a writer for a radio program, his message applies to design as well. You will continue to produce bad work unless you are willing to put the time, effort and repetition in until your execution is equal to your vision (and this takes years by the way).
As blogs and blogging becomes more and more popular, you’ll be expected to be able to build blogs for your clients from scratch. Using services like TypePad and Blogger just wont cut it. So that leaves you, the web developer, two mainstream options, WordPress or Movable Type for pre-built blogging software. Since I have worked with both now, I figured I would give you the benefits of each platform and my overall opinion.
If you read through the articles in the blog, you will come across a few about newspapers going to online format only. Well, a newspaper in Europe is taking it one step further and customizing their content and design for mobile phones.
European newspaper giant Axel Springer is more than a huge print operation, it also aims to become Europe’s most creative and profitable multimedia publishing enterprise. To this end, the company has transformed itself from an old-school publisher to a digital media powerhouse. One phase of this metamorphosis is Axel Springer’s embrace of mobile digital content delivered by Apple iPhone 3G.
