Theres a lot of buzz out there on the internet about CSS3 and how its new coding features will produce a faster more visually attractive web. I came across some great tutorials already online here are just a few of them. http://designshack.co.uk/articles/introduction-to-css3-part-1-what-is-it http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/04/make-cool-and-clever-text-effects-with-css-text-shadow/ http://kilianvalkhof.com/2008/design/almost-cross-browser-text-shadow/ http://css3please.com/ http://www.css3.info/preview/

Bad design isn’t something I particularly enjoy talking about but its quite easy to be critical and point the finger at things that are ‘bad’. but I’d like to approach this question of why do people like bad design? I think partly its to do with education, many clients don’t want good designs. They want [...]

You might have heard the term letterpress being banded about on the internet. But what exactly is it? Letterpress is a form of relief printing using a printing press and moveable type, the kind of printer invented by Gutenberg in the 15th century. Modern industrial letterpress techniques are different from the traditional version which uses [...]

On Tuesday I picked up a copy of The Metro, which was running an article about how logos are ‘dead’. But whats wrong with a good well designed logo? A logo is broadly defined as a graphic mark or emblem used by organisations to promote and assist public recognition.

As a frequenter of design based blogs I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about HTML 5. Every few years theres an overhaul of web technologies or someone comes up with ‘the latest thing’ which will apparently exponentially improve our webby lives. So I often come at these things from an overly critical stance. Out [...]

I wanted to come back to an earlier post I made about symbols, icons and how we each interpret them differently. I’m a big fan of the AIGA website, my only gripe is that because I don’t live in the US I can’t join. Anyway, their site is a great repository of articles about design. [...]

So a few weeks ago I was working on a landing page – for those who don’t know a landing page is used in online marketing. Its the page that you see when you click on a paid for banner ad or link in a search engine. It allows the marketeer to target a specific [...]

When I was doing my blog rounds the other day I came across an interesting article about how our eyes perceive colours. I think the easiest way of describing the theory is that in our minds we see a shape and then the shape has a colour attached to it. So when we look at [...]

I was going to post something fun about Halloween, however I think I may leave that for a later point. I also realise that I often neglect to post to my own blog for one reason or another so its been some time since theres been anything new. Part of that is being able to [...]

With Halloween looming there is much talk about goolish fonts for use during the season. Personally I love halloween and scripted gothic fonts. So with that in mind I’ve been thinking about fonts and font sites. One of my favorites is da fonts it offers a comprehensive list of fonts often getting new ones in [...]