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Newsweek covers the Presidential race
Posted December 1st, 2008 by notesdesignThese selected covers are from the table of contents from Newsweek’s post presidential issue. Here are some of the things that are fascinating to me about this selection:
Hillary Clinton’s portrait cover is fairly close to the camera, followed by Michelle Obama’s slightly farther away portrait, and Cindy McCain’s most remote portrait. Sarah Palin’s portrait photo [...]
Technorati Tags: November Desktop
Posted November 7th, 2008 by notesdesignI can’t seem to resist designing these desktops. My “Thanks Gratitude Wonder” is up there with 49 more free desktop designs from designers all over the world.
Thanks again for including me, Smashing! www.smashingmagazine.com
Kudos CNN
Posted November 5th, 2008 by notesdesignNow that’s what I call an information graphic. Clear, concise, easy to read and understand, and it includes all of the information you need. CNN really nailed it with this Flash-based design.
And it’s a total sign of how geeky I am that I was so blown away by graphics on one of the most historic [...]
Black and white and Altman all over
Posted November 4th, 2008 by notesdesignDo Robert Altman’s films inspire unusually good design? It seems so. The promo fliers for the local Altman film festival caught my eye recently:
That’s what I call excellent one color design! If you know about design production, you can tell that there must have been some severe constraints put on this project: one color printing, [...]
Smashing
Posted September 29th, 2008 by notesdesignI linked to Smashing Magazine’s monthly free desktop designs before, but I’m doing it again because this month one of the entries they posted is from… me. Yippee! Scroll down more than halfway to find my “Halloscene”.
Even if you don’t want to download my desktop (and really, I’d never know), you should check it out [...]
Context is Everything
Posted August 13th, 2008 by notesdesignWhat does this say?
If you read that as Obama (as in Barack Obama, presumptive Democratic candidate for the US Presidency), you’re probably an American. If you haven’t heard of Obama (although now that he’s the “biggest celebrity in the world” I don’t know who you would be), I don’t think there’s any way you’d be [...]
The she and him posters make me insanely jealous
Posted July 23rd, 2008 by notesdesignI wish I had a better image of these two posters. I saw them around Northampton (Massachusetts) a couple of weeks ago, and have been wishing that I designed them ever since. Are these fabulous? They only appear together, and the layout, typography, color palette and photography make me swoon. That split ampersand? Gorgeous. The [...]
What do designers do all day?
Posted July 10th, 2008 by notesdesignCheck out this fabulous video following the progress of a magazine layout. FYI, the designer is using InDesign. My favorite part is when he just gives up on the headline and inserts a row of Xs. I’d guess that he just got the sixty-seventh email from his editor saying, “Sorry, but we changed the head [...]
Web Creme is delicious
Posted June 20th, 2008 by notesdesignI’m always on the lookout for inspiring design, and Web Creme delivers. I may not find all of the featured designs particularly noteworthy, but many of the linked sites have found their way into my “Inspiration” bookmarks folder. I especially like the color palette tool. Each design has a color scheme represented as tiny [...]
Photography + typography
Posted April 22nd, 2008 by notesdesignFred Herzog. Three Theaters, 1957.
That is some gorgeous photo. Over the cacophony of the neon signs and street lights, the typefaces on the signs are like candles in the night. This photo is from 1957 and it shows in the letterforms, but in many ways it seems totally contemporary to me. The gallery site says [...]
