Ah, Comic Sans. The village idiot of fonts. While it normally ruins everything it touches, website Comic Sans Project are the font’s self-anointed “DEFENDERS”, replacing the logos of famous companies with, well, Comic Sans. You’d think it would look awful but, well, it often looks pretty great.
Very cool spin on minimalist movie posters, mixed with the international symbols for people.
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Things we’re loving today: Pantone Hotel
In the past couple of years, we’ve gone through a lot of trends (clichés?) in web design, from the web 2.0 gradient fills and lighting effects to the use of grunge textures and huge type. Ismael Burciaga’s blog, to me, deftly incorporates the spirit of those trends but with an original and elegant spin: Burlap textures, stripes, a shadow on the boxes holding images, and a nice use of transparency for the post titles.
I’m in love.
"If you imitate a person you admire, the best you can possibly hope for is to become a bad imitation of the person you admire. What you need to do instead is to locate the same level of inventiveness as the person you admire, and apply it to a new domain."
— Donald Judd, as quoted by Jonathan Harris
I’ve learned this is very true, but the last step’s panic levels do decrease somewhat with practice.
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Whoa.
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