I just finished a web portfolio project for my talented photographer friend, Stefanie Villeneuve. I designed and developed an html5 website that showcases her photography in a minimalist direction, letting her work speak for itself. Continue reading “Stefanie Villeneuve Website” »
Here’s a small design project I finished recently for my Monday evening Production Design class. It’s a typographic calendar featuring quotes and sayings from my favourite designers and illustrators. The goal of the project was to get us to re-familiarize ourselves with InDesign and the correct set up of print-ready files. You can download the full PDF Calendar here.
One of the lasting influences of Swiss design on contemporary graphic design is the grid. It’s only been the past year that I’ve really appreciated the use of grid for interactive design projects, and how it really brings a design together cohesively and structurally, just as it does for print. Continue reading “All About Grids (for the Web)” »
I just caught an encore presentation of an interview with Jason Fried on CBC Radio. Jason is the founder of 37signals, a cloud-based software company – their flagship product is the popular Basecamp collaboration tool. Continue reading “Jason Fried (from 37 Signals) on CBC Spark” »
Here’s a great book lent to me by my friend, Richard, called “Universal Principles of Design” by William Lidwell, Kritrina Holden + Jill Butler. The book covers ideas and concepts that apply to different fields of design, from graphic design, industrial design, interactive design, to architecture. Continue reading “Universal Principles of Design” »
This past weekend I’ve been listening to a really great podcast called Your Dreams My Nightmares by Sam Weber. Each week he interviews illustrators and designers, and asks them about their craft and working in the commercial arts. Continue reading “Sam Weber’s Your Dreams My Nightmares Radio Show” »
After reading through Erik Spiekermann’s book, Stop Stealing Sheep & Learn How Type Works, I found out about this really great book in its bibliography called Finer Points in the Spacing and Arrangement of Type by Geoffrey Dowding. I managed to find a copy and, wow, this is one of the most useful books on typesetting I’ve read so far! Continue reading “Book: Finer Points in the Spacing and Arrangement of Type” »
Here’s a fun little game called Kern Type that tests your kerning abilities. The game presents a series of individual words and you correct the letterspacing of the letters. After, you submit your solution and the game compares it against typographers’ solutions.
As part of my Advanced Information Design class, I’ve started a book project on the subject of Designers (and Illustrators) and their favourite objects. So far I’ve gotten very positive and enthusiastic responses from people I’ve invited to participate.
(That’s my favourite object up above. I bought it during my trip to Japan in 2007. It’s from the Toji Temple Market in Kyoto.)
You can check out my accompanying blog here: designersfavouritethings.com
I just finished a very short project for a new creative group called Senior Creative People. This group consists of ex-copywriters and art directors who worked for DDB in the 60s.
The project was to design and develop a simple “Under Construction” page with provided copy and photography. The very cool thing with this project is the typography is set in the Univers webfont from Fonts.com.