Little Box Of Ideas

It’s true you know. You’ll learn more from your mistakes and the mistakes of others than you will from advice and suggestions. I wish there was a mistake bank somewhere that I could log into and read to my heart’s content. Read about other people’s tomfoolery and naivette. Because that would equip me to avoid

A few months ago I did a couple of community posts on the blog where designers and creatives from various fields talked about what they thought would be some of the most prominent design trends of 2010. You can review those posts here Designers Predict Design Trends for 2010 – Part I and The Biggest

  rop Cap is the first letter of a paragraph that is enlarged to drop down a couple of lines. A common fixture in print publishing from novels to magazines to beautifully illustrated childrens’ books, drop caps are slowly gaining momentum in the online word. Typography websites and blogs, especially those using minimal designs and

A few days ago I wrote an article on 3 simple yet very powerful ways to make typography actually talk on your website. I have used the beautiful Squared Eye website as my case study to effectively point out a few tricks and techniques that one might miss when designing with type. Thanks to Andrew

  Badly done list posts give good designers a bad name. Like with everything else, list posts have their share of supporters and haters. A lot of established designers and bloggers talk about list posts as being recycled design garbage on the internet forgetting that they resorted to list posts when they started out. Its