Category Archives: design

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.

Color Predictions

 Color-trending is a fascinating subject. And when economic conditions combine with wartime sentiments, colors take on some interesting and unusual hues.

A 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!

It’s A Blackletter Day

 Based in Perugia, Italy, Philippe Nicolas is a French graphic designer with a real talent for typography and hand-lettering. His hand-lettered examples shown here, “fraktur minuscule,” represent his latest works. See more of his work after the jump, or visit…

Daily Drop Cap

 If you’re a fan of delicious hand-crafted typography, or just a fan of ways to make your blog unique, be sure to check out The Daily Drop Cap.

The Beauty of Parasites

 Sublime and reminiscent of botanical prints, the plates from Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur (Artforms of nature) (1904) are a treasure trove of color and design.

When Typography Meets Clay

 An odd combination, if you think about – typography used on bowls, cups and plates. But then you see the works of Asya Palatova of gleena ceramics and see the natural combination.

Visual Representation Poster

 This limited edition Giclee poster by Stuart Tolley is a visual representation of the Bob Marley song I Shot The Sheriff. It shows the relationship between the bass guitar notes and the electric guitar’s treble notes.

Constant Inspiration – Henri Rivière

 Consistently a source of inspiration for me are the woodblock and watercolor prints of Henri Rivière. His lithographic series “Thirty Six Views of the Eiffel Tower,” inspired by Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji, are an unusually detailed representation of…

Pixelated Pop

 Artist & designer Cristian Zuzunaga, a Barcelona-born artist & designer, captures sheer imagination in his pixelated fabric prints, clothing designs and architecural influenced pixel-pop prints.