Sign of the (New York) Times July 9, 2007
Oh my, that’s some nice signage on the New York Times building.
Best uses of Flash July 9, 2007
best uses of Flash, covering the search considerations designers should think about when building a Flash-heavy site.
i like postcards July 3, 2007
Bit late, but I thought I’d do a quick photo post to say how lovely the postcards are from Anne at ilike.org.uk. (Thanks also go to davidthedesigner for his help.)
Seriously, how ace is the “FUNLAND” one?
Out with the new, in with the old June 29, 2007
The ever-interesting Brand New blog introduces the new Coke can. It takes guts to reverse the trend of continually adding swooshes, bubbles, drop shadows, et al, and Coke have pulled this one off to perfection. Beautiful.
FontSugar June 28, 2007
Ray Larabie makes fonts. He gives a lot of them away for free. He has a new website: FontSugar
Cardiff Bay barrage art April 15, 2007
Public art at the Cardiff Bay barrage by Swiss artist Felice Varini.
Adobe’s rip-off pricing in Europe April 9, 2007
A throughly researched article highlighting Adobe’s rip-off pricing in Europe by Nigel Moore. The Swiss and — surprise, surprise! — the UK are the worst affected, with customers paying up to twice as much as their US counterparts. (And that’s excluding sales tax.)
Debunking Daryl Cagle’s criticism of the LA Times March 27, 2007
The ugliest British banknote ever March 27, 2007
BBC News has a good overview of the new £20 note. It has to be the ugliest British banknote I’ve ever seen. The front isn’t bad but the rear, oh my, where to start with this monstrosity?
What the hell is going on with that illustration in the centre? The guilloché behind it makes it far, far too busy, it makes my eyes hurt just to try and figure out what’s going on.
The profile portrait of Adam Smith is remarkably ugly; look at the previous 20’s portrait of Edward Elgar and scratch your head as to why they couldn’t come up with something more tasteful.
What’s going on with the stroke around the “£20” in the top right corner, and why has someone just peppered a load of EURion constellations around it with no effort to make them fit in?
Who was responsible for the punctuation of the horrible condensed sans text that reads “The division of labour…”, and since when did it become normal to end a sentence with a colon, only to follow it up with bracketed, uncapitalised and unpunctuated text? (Is that colon pointing at the design, or what?)
And finally, is that “Twenty Pounds” and “Bank of England” set in Bodoni? Now you’re just taking the piss…
CR: Record sleeve designs of the week 5 March 20, 2007
Record sleeve designs of the week from Creative Review.