An Interview with Chip Kidd
I’m a big fan of the work of Chip Kidd – probably best known as the book cover designer for titles such as Jurassic Park, much of Brett Easton Ellis’s work, David Sedaris … etc. etc. Anyway, there’s a good interview with him over on Smashing Magazine.
If people liked everything I did just because I did it, as opposed to whether it was actually good or not, that would be a problem — both for me and for them. What I don’t like, and I don’t know any designer who does, is when you feel that you’ve done the right work and then it gets rejected, for whatever reason
Dots Rule – more lovely work from Kenspeckle
I’ve posted stuff from the Kenspeckle Letterpress before – but this new piece of work is simply stunning – it’s called The Cells Shine On – here’s a link to the accompanying blog post: Dots Rule
Everyone needs one of these signs … sometimes
The great people at Kenspeckle Letterpress have put together a sign that speaks volumes – not just for their thought process, but for how closely aligned they are with what has become known as ‘the general mood’. Okay, so, as a sole trader who needs to make sales and generally be as nice and helpful as I can – this might not be the best thing to hang on my door. But sometimes, it’d be the appropriate thing – Closed Due To Irritation:
Angela’s Bella Flora – work in progress
I just wanted to share with you a splash of colour and joy on this dreary (in Fermanagh) Wednesday afternoon … so I’m working on an ecommerce website for a florist in Minnesota (I sketched wireframes and the lovely, talented Marian Lansky fleshed out the design … all photography from Rolf Hagberg) and it’s just lovely – here’s a small screenshot from one of their gift pages. It just makes me smile:
Angela's Bella Flora
Mona Lisa Remix
Love this print of the Mona Lisa … pointillism of fine art! I feel a purchase for my new office coming on …
dConstruct 2011
It’s a great looking event – although, for me, it seems to have moved away from the direct relevance of my day to day to a more abstract view on digital product design. That’s okay – but maybe not for me this year – there are other demands on my conference time this year!
BUT – the reason for flagging it here is to draw attention to the wonderfully responsive website design. Take a look at the website and resize your browser window … several different layouts kick in at popular screen resolution sizes … so there’s a full screen version, a tablet version, mobile phone version (portrait / landscape) etc. … actually , we should stop talking about it in terms of differentiation by device – it’s simply a website, built how it should be. Responsive and practical – as well as beautiful – check it out:
Logo design considerations
A nice article on how clients should prepare for having their logo redesigned … the example used in this article – for ‘Northland OB-GYN’ is a site I’m working on with Sally who wrote this piece. Can’t wait for the Northland site to go live … it looks great, and the logo is a wonderfully flexible representation of the site, for sure.
You want a new logo. Where do you begin?
More effective, useless
This came via Signal vs. Noise and is an excellent example of the devil being in the details:
… the ‘more effective, useless’ problem reminds me of other such mis-guided domain names as therapistfinder.com, speedofart.com and powergenitalia.com
Mail Chimp logo design
A nice look at John Hicks’ logo redesign for mailchimp. John is the icon / logo design genius behind such things as the Firefox logo, The Escape Committee logo (my favourite of his, I think), as well as the design work for the new usability testing software suite: Silver Back App. Check out John’s work