My Apostrophe, ‘Tis Of Thee
After recently viewing a local travelling exhibit of a deceased, famous Princess of Great Britain, I found myself completely distracted by the display boards. Every board used a combination of “straight” and “curly” apostrophes.
Creating Winning Design Presentations
The subject of how to present creative to clients, and what to present, has been debated in the design and advertising communities forever and a day. Hoping to share some of my experience on the subject, I’ve developed a guide of my top five steps I take to create presentations which clients like, buy-off on, and actually work to sell products and/or thoughtfully and thoroughly present information.
Filed under Don's Tips, advertising, branding, design | Tags: advertising, design, Don's TipsThe Color of Type
When choosing the color of type to be used on a project, consider the medium first. In print, everything is reflective. That is, everything is printed on paper and light is reflected off the paper. Most often, type in print is easier to read with more contrast between the paper and the type.
#000000 on left; #333333 on right
Thinking Outside The Chunk
Back in 1995 when I began my transition into web design and development, and there were literally thousands of sites on the web, every single one was designed in a way which accommodated the means to build the site – by the chunk. And there was a huge battle between designers and coders, much like today. Though I only hear it whispered in storage rooms and alleyways, the battle builds between traditional web designers and those specializing in W3C compliant CSS-driven CMS sites.
Filed under Don's Tips, design | Tags: Don's Tips, trendsA List Apart Survey
Just took A List Apart‘s yearly survey for people who create websites. Each year, the survey results are invaluable to our industry as they create predictors for the coming years. If you make websites, take the survey too!
Filed under design, web design | Tags: design, trends