December 2011
29 posts
Humor: Comic Sans Even Ruins Video Game Logos(via... →
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.
“If you imitate a person you admire, the best you can possibly hope for is to...”
– Donald Judd, as quoted by Jonathan Harris
A few more things...
Before the semester is over, I’m going through some posts I saved as “likes” and posting them here. Then I’ll have to decide if I should continue tumbling design related things in the future!
“Spacing cannot be dismissed as a “simple accessory” of writing: “That a speech...”
– Ellen Lupton quoting Derrida in her essay, “Deconstruction and Graphic Design”
corbinchamberlin:
Love Jessica Repetto’s Oscar de la Renta illustration for Candy Pratts Price.
I’ve been thinking a lot about design now that our class is almost done. I find myself returning to one of the key ideas from the beginning — that design is everywhere, not just in typography and graphic design work.
November 2011
38 posts
Tumblr Assignment #11
Work through at least one of the tutorials from the links provided on InDesign and write a paragraph about what you learned. (Note: This isn’t busy work, this is to show you all the free resources that are available, and to get you accustomed to learning on your own.)
I worked through a tutorial on Creating an Interactive Portfolio with InDesign from one of the links. This collection of my...
Is the Internet Awake? - Cool Infographic →
