Whether you mea­sure in LPI or DPI—pulp to pix­els—the fun­da­men­tals of design remain at play. This is not print vs web, this is about com­mon ground cre­at­ing a com­mon design lan­guage. It’s about the mes­sage, not the medium.
When you refuse to sign
Design Industry / Design Process

When you refuse to sign

Mar 8, 2011 • No Comments
Pitch to enough clients of a cer­tain size and even­tu­ally you’re going to be asked to sign a stan­dard­ized con­tract or NDA. Usu­ally it comes from a large client with a team of lawyers who burry you in page after page of terms which are so one-sided it’s becomes laughable....
2011 Salary Resources
Design Industry / Resources

2011 Salary Resources

Mar 2, 2011 • 1 Comment
A new year and new prices are in full effect. With tax sea­son gear­ing up and the econ­omy slowly on the mend—or still in the toi­let depend­ing your point of view—it’s a good time to take one last look back at 2010 and see how well you fared and use...
Hourly vs Project: the basics of charging for services
commentary / Design Process

Hourly vs Project: the basics of charging for services

Jun 25, 2010 • No Comments
It always hap­pens when a designer approaches me to ask how do they make the leap to inde­pen­dent con­trac­tor the first ques­tion is, ”how much do I charge per hour?” I guess the answer to this depends on how far down the rab­bit hole you are pre­pared to go. The...
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Yes we kern!
Design Process

Yes we kern!

Feb 2, 2012 • No Comments
Com­ing from the world of print, typog­ra­phy is an issue near and dear to my heart as I move more towards the web. So many tools and stan­dards of design I took for granted are now denied to me.
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commentary

Web design is graphic design

Jan 21, 2012 • No Comments
Web design isn’t about tech­nol­ogy. Web design is graphic design, built on a inter­ac­tive plat­form. It is graphic design with lim­i­ta­tions, but mostly graphic design with end­less pos­si­bil­i­ties. A graphic designer needs to under­stand the web. Infor­ma­tion Archi­tects states that web design is 95% typog­ra­phy, purely because web design is the same as graphic design...
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Contract Creator
Resources

Contract Creator

Oct 26, 2011 • No Comments
Ask any cre­ative what their least favorite aspect of free­lanc­ing is and they will more often than not reply it is deal­ing with the legal mumbo jumbo of a Con­tract.  So much so, many forego this step all together; some­times with dire consequences.
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Win 8 web browser to be plugin-free, sans Flash
Adobe / Apple / Flash / Windows

Win 8 web browser to be plugin-free, sans Flash

Sep 15, 2011 • No Comments
More than a year after Steve Jobs took Adobe to task about the lack lus­ter per­for­mance and expe­ri­ence Flash pro­vides, Adobe has yet to mod­ern­ize Flash.  Now, Microsoft has announced the Win­dows 8 ver­sion of Inter­net Explorer will be plugin-free, pre­fer­ring standards-based HTML5 con­tent to con­tent served via pro­pri­etary Adobe Flash technology.  For the web to...
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Design Industry / Design Process

Quark App Studio Arrives

Sep 1, 2011 • No Comments
Quark con­tin­ues to inno­vate and close the gap between print and dig­i­tal while avoid­ing the steep learn­ing curve. Rather than drop­ping a new app or expect­ing design­ers to learn code, Quark has cho­sen to make the smart move of allow­ing designer to stay focused on design while empow­er­ing the tech­nol­ogy take care of the tech­ni­cal...
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Inkling—digitizes while you draw
Design Process

Inkling—digitizes while you draw

Aug 31, 2011 • No Comments
Unlike pretty much any other pro­fes­sion, cre­atives will most often forgo tech­nol­ogy and pick up an old-fashioned paper and pen­cil to get the job started. But inevitably the process turns to dig­i­tiz­ing with a scan­ner and maybe some touch-up in Photoshop. A stan­dard Wacom tablet lets you skip the dig­i­tiz­ing process, but for most it’s awk­ward...
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Coca Cola Plants a Green Billboard
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Coca Cola Plants a Green Billboard

Jul 10, 2011 • No Comments
This is just plain cool. The bill­board uses 3,600 pots of Fukien tea plants, which can each absorb an aver­age of 13 pounds of car­bon diox­ide a year. Recy­cled Coca-Cola bot­tles were used as pots. The plants, which are pot­ted in a mix­ture of indus­trial byprod­ucts and organic fer­til­iz­ers, are watered by an effi­cient drip irri­ga­tion...
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Google unveils Flash-to-HTML5 tool

Jun 28, 2011 • No Comments
You can upload a SWF file, and Swiffy will pro­duce an HTML5 ver­sion which will run in mod­ern browsers with a high level of SVG sup­port such as Chrome and Safari. It’s still an early ver­sion, so it won’t con­vert all Flash con­tent, but it already works well on ads and animations.   Via Mac­world...
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Make your Magic Mouse play nice with Adobe apps
Adobe / Apple / OS X

Make your Magic Mouse play nice with Adobe apps

May 11, 2011 • 1 Comment
Why won’t my mouse stop scrolling? Arg! With all the new addi­tions to Cre­ative Suite 5.5 they still have yet to cor­rect what is, in my opin­ion, a crit­i­cal bug—when using a Magic Mouse Adobe apps thrive on ran­domly and wildly scroll about the paste board and off to the nether regions of your doc­u­ments. It’s like...
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Adobe / Resources

Adobe Eazel for Photoshop CS5

May 2, 2011 • No Comments
Adobe Eazel turns your iPad into a Wacom tablet and your fin­ger­tip is the sty­lus. Sorta. It does demon­strate the seem­ingly typ­i­cal ded­i­ca­tion of Adobe to mobile media and devices in the new CS 5.5 release. 
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Mac vs PC: A Hunch Rematch
Apple / Pop Culture

Mac vs PC: A Hunch Rematch

Apr 23, 2011 • No Comments
Ego vs id, Mac vs PC—hunch blog fol­lows up on a 2009 sur­vey to explore how the two demo­graph­ics per­ceive them­selves in per­son­al­ity, aes­thetic tastes, and media preferences.
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commentary

4 Tips for Staying Productive On Vacation

Apr 6, 2011 • 1 Comment
If the title makes you think you’ll get the info you need to sneak­ily work through your next vaca­tion while still relax­ing then you’ve already failed. You must to read the rest of this post.
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