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@font-face — Web designers’ delight, type designers despair?

Chris
Posted by Chris July 18, 2009
Categories: Design, Featured, Resource, Web
95% of Web Design is Typography
Image by thebudman84 via Flickr

If you are excited about the newer web browser software being able to make use of a myriad of fonts then I guess that you are a web designer. However, if you are a font designer then maybe you’ve been tracking news about @font-face since 2007 with trepidation rather than excitement.

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Halloween Themed Logos

Chris
Posted by Chris October 31, 2008
Categories: Design, Featured

You can always rely on Google to change its logotype for Halloween (or any other less than ordinary day). Along with Google’s redesigned logo I found a couple of others that I actually liked.

Vimeo at Halloween

Smashing Magazine

Google at Halloween 2008

My favourite is Vimeo a simple alteration to the regular logo. Some blogs (such as Thou Shall Blog have decided to make an apt alteration to their design — a nice touch.

However, as you may have noted I have not made any effort to adorn blog24 with such decor. The reason is simple. While Halloween is as popular as ever in the United Kingdom I am not a great fan.

Note: The link to vimeo actually links to a short film of my puppy playing, he deserves a little fame.

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Doctor Snip’s Amusing Marketing Ploy

Chris
Posted by Chris September 12, 2008
Categories: Amusement, Design

An amusing piece of marketing that is likely to put off potential clients but would sure make a nice little treat on leaving the clinic.

Imagine meeting someone at a conference or party and they pass you this while saying, “here’s my card.”

The Vasectomy Clinic penknife

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Apple’s Steve Jobs Announces iPod Nano 4G

Chris
Posted by Chris September 09, 2008
Categories: Apple, Design, Featured


iPod Nano 4G, originally uploaded by Roman Reisenberger.

 

The speculation is true — Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, has just announced the new iPod Nano. Let’s just say if you’ve seen a mockup or photograph that claimed to be the new iPod Nano then it was genuine.

The 4th Generation Nano has an oval cross-section and a widescreen screen as rumors rumours suggested. The new Nano has a built-in accelerometer to make viewing video, photo and your music collection (via coverflow) much like the iPhone and iPod Touch.

More later (maybe).

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Digital Artist Toolbox: An Inspiration For Designers And Illustrators

Chris
Posted by Chris August 18, 2008
Categories: Art, Design

Digital Artist Toolbox is an inspirational blog for anyone who is involved in illustration or design. In fact inspiration is one of the categories, along with freebies, Illustrator, Photoshop, tutorials and news, all of which are filled with useful and relevant posts.

Digital Artist Toolbox logotype

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