Cleveland Cavaliers’ coach Dan Gilbert was understandably upset when Lebron James snubbed his hometown. He pulled no punches in his very public letter to Cavs fans, posted front and center on the team page on nba.com. Except when he chose to typeset his post in the most mocked font of all time: Comic Sans.
"Techy Designer" Archive
Tips and tricks from our Techy Designer. Love gadgets and web DIY? Tired of reading about chocolate? This is your sweet spot.
The Ultimate Whiteboard Chart
We tip our caps to a master of the visual interpretation of data, Tom Wujek of Autodesk, who manned the whiteboard at the ultra-brainy Singularity futurism conference in the spring of 2010.
Context Between Content: The Importance Of White Space
You may have heard the proverb: “Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.” When it comes to design, silence is the empty—or negative—space in your layout.
Living on the grid: Design tips for non-designers
When it comes to design, there are a few simple principles you can follow to vastly improve the results. One such guideline is the grid-based layout.
Creative block? Try a worthwhile dilemma.
One of the challenges of working as a designer is that creative muses don’t respect business hours. Sometimes a brilliant idea strikes at bedtime; inconvenient perhaps, but still usually pleasant. More troubling is when you’re on deadline and can’t find inspiration. Every creative has her or his own techniques for breaking the block. One of [...]
In Defense of Pie Charts in the Real World
Absolutely! I agree with our earlier post, Ideas Without Words—or Pie Charts. Information is beautiful in charts like Caffeine and Calories. I would use this or a similar treatment each and every time the client says: “Designer, go forth with this here unlimited budget and a whenever deadline, and just… CREATE!” Alas, the world of [...]
Ideas Without Words—or Pie Charts
Sometimes we copywriter people need to be put in our place. INFORMATION IS BEAUTIFUL does it.
Design Trend for 2010: Purple
Calling trends is classic chicken-egg stuff: does a tendency only become a trend when one labels it so? The line is thin and grey enough that by the time most trends are “predicted,” they’re actually simply being reported. But the stakes are low here, so let’s play pundit. Over the years, I’ve gone through a [...]
Want to see your company’s future? Show me the wiki.
Wikipedia rules the Internet. It’s a more popular information source than CNN and Yahoo News and, with more than three million articles, its pages appear in top-ten search results well over 90% of the time (some reports put the figure as high as 97%). Not bad for a website that’s existed for a mere eight [...]
