Category: design
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Design Quotes: Thomas Vasquez
I’ve always held to the belief that the practice of creating compelling graphic design occurs not by employing the principals of a democracy, but rather, that of a monarchy.
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Questions To Ask Before (Re)Designing
I hate thinking about a redesign. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind redesigning things. There’s no problem going into a client’s situation and pointing out where they’re falling short or what needs to be addressed to underscore their brand. Similarly, I don’t have a problem getting a design from a buddy asking for advice…
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Fontisizing Trajan
So these posts are to display, ogle, applaud, examine and objectify fonts that have crept out of my dreams and onto my designs. Go ahead: fontasize about Trajan.
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ESPN Rise’s Video Game Issue with Alvin Lee
During the holiday season over at my shop in ESPN Rise we decided to do something a little bit different with our National Video Game Issue: get an illustrator. Usually we use awesome photography by the industry’s best, but this time we wanted to tap the talent of Street Fighter video game acclaim Alvin Lee…
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Fontisizing Impact
Like an old yenta, a designer is often found matchmaking design projects and fonts. With so many designs, the designer ensures they have access to as many possible matches as possible. But that doesn’t always work out. After all, the designer, like the yenta, has a certain vision of the ideal font matches. They don’t…
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Two Design Websites to Watch
Occasionally I like to link to some random stuff and call it “links n’ junk” but I have two sites here that are so not in the junk sphere that I couldn’t properly label this post in that way. First, we have Designers & Books which describes itself as: devoted to publishing lists of books that…