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On Widows, and How to Tame Them 28 Jun 2012 | 06:20 pm
15/06/2012 · On a train between Brighton and Cardiff, UK · Dangling from the last line of a paragraph, a typographic widow is a thought fragment severed from its context. They are the result of carele...
Standards, not Prescriptions 17 May 2012 | 09:00 pm
Note: This is an rewrite of yesterday’s post. I wrote in haste last time, and in doing so was not very clear about certain points, and was off on others. Many thanks to Eric Meyer for being kind enoug...
Islands of Thought in Macrotypography 10 Jan 2012 | 04:00 am
04/01/2012 · Penarth, Wales · Proximity is one of the most ruthlessly subconscious of Design tools. Closeness relates, and every expanse of negative space severs. The deliberate and exact manipulation...
Lorem Ipsum Dilutes Design 13 Dec 2011 | 03:02 am
“Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut...
Responsive Advertising: A Ranged Solution 17 Nov 2011 | 04:04 am
Advertising is a clear roadblock to any large-scale responsive design implementation. Over on his blog, Mark Boulton astutely narrows the key issues with responsive advertising to the following: A la...
Beyond the Generalist: Be Mega 22 Mar 2011 | 12:47 am
There are many shapes good designers aspire to fill: T-shapes, I-shapes, Ninja Turtles. Rockstars, even. Big, robust agencies love the I-shape: people who are super strong at one line of discipline. B...
The Tao of Support 8 Mar 2011 | 01:00 am
Support is the most important feature of any app. When we released Unify nearly two years ago, I was only equipped with customer service skills dulled by the years since my lackluster retail jobs in c...
Act Accordingly 3 Mar 2011 | 02:37 am
The Internet and mobile devices do not make us antisocial. They make us hyper-social. Technology has outpaced etiquette, the evidence of which permeates any public space. People constantly let digital...
How to Become an Expert 14 Feb 2011 | 11:25 pm
Disclaimer: I hesitate to call myself an “Expert” unless we’re talking about one of my trivial preoccupations (mid-90s comic book prices, tycoon-era American History, or other frumpiness). If you’re l...
The Form of the Book, Digested 28 Jan 2011 | 10:48 pm
The Form of the Book, by Jan Tschichold, is the authority on book design and the best book I have ever read on typography (and I’ve read many, mind you). As a web designer this book taught me how to s...
