It’s been great to be back out meeting people face-to-face for client meetings since the great unpleasantness (which all seems a long time ago now). I think you can forget with the proliferation of Teams and Zoom, just how important it is for us to do that.
Brand development must be one of the most exciting projects both for a client and the designer. The responsibility to get it right, to interpret the brand’s personality, values and understand the market, the organisations goals, to ensure usability in different settings, and more is a challenge—an exciting and hugely rewarding one.
Now the same author brings us Beautiful News and again, it’s a stunner.
We are surrounded with colour. Every day our lives are enhanced by the colours of nature around us. We have imitated and can now produce colour like never before, in fashion, on the printed page, online and so much more.
Yes, I’ve read quite a few, but they’re sometimes a little myopic. I prefer to get my design influences from other sources beyond my immediate field. That’s not to say I ignore the world of Graphic Design with its historical and changing styles, that would be foolish.
This lovely vintage-style font family is available free for personal and commercial use from the lovely chaps at Fontfabric. It comes with a shadow version and bold 3D to name a couple of options. That means you can set a lovely retro piece with ease.
Really? Why do designers think that I want to be seen in this? Why is it that as soon as some designers think about eco-friendly all concepts of style seem to head rapidly for the closest exit—whilst trampling good taste underfoot?
I know designers who religiously collect examples of ampersands. It’s not hard to see what fires them up, a simple ligature that creates one of the most beautiful examples of typesetting. Time and time again you will see almost endless variety of this character.
It is amazing how often we come across this misunderstanding of these two terms. In fact, if I had a pound for every time it happened I’d have somewhere in the region of some more money than I have now…
Understanding form, light, colour, texture, materials, human behavior. Having experience, knowledge, curiosity, imagination, and an uncanny ability to see answers to problems, and the ability to take a chance sometimes—these are some of the attributes of a good designer.