Tagged with 'design'
Signs of the Times
The NYT has a great article on typography for American roadways. Basically, signs are hard to read because, well:
The letter shapes of Highway Gothic weren't ever tested, having never really been designed in the first place. "I's very American in that way — just smash it together and get it up there," says Tobias Frere-Jones, a typographer in New York City who came to the attention of the design world in the mid-1990s with his Interstate typeface inspired by the bemusing, awkward charm of Highway Gothic. "It's brash and blunt, not so concerned with detail. It has a certain unvarnished honesty."
So, a new design team (profiled in the piece) has put together a new typeface-and-guidelines package. The photos of signs side-by-side are startling — how big a difference a font can make!
It's also strange to think that all the road signs might change while I'm away...
Thoughts on "Designing Our Own Graves"
This article at Design Observer combines a nostalgic mourning for the lost art of album covers with a nearly futuristic spin on prosumerism / the "Make…
Greetings and Salutations!
At long last, the moment has arrived! How ominous. I have finally, at much pain to myself and those near me, have devised and constructed my web page…
SJGames: "Big books, clockwerk, feh"
I can't quite put my finger on why, but I love this quote from SJGames Daily Illuminator. I like hearing these insights into the way things get made…
Hands down: Worst Web site ever
I ended up clicking the Help button. This opened a new browser window which displayed a PDF (the bane of my existance!) The PDF was 49 pages long! Lacking other options I started reading…
Apartment Hunting on the Web
I've been looking at a number of Apartment Search-type Web sites lately and it's been a rather frustrating experience. Since I build Web sites for a living, I have a high standard…
Daring Fireball: The Fish Rots From the Head
I like John Gruber's stuff, and I think his take on the Adobe-Macromedia merger is spot-on. In a recent rant/tirade/essay, he expands on the differences between…