Twitter: The Brand

By now, the global tech community is addicted to Twitter. Twitter handles are appearing on business cards and in email signatures, and “what’s you Twitter?” is replacing “what’s your email?” as the default way to get in touch with someone. It’s great for a number of reasons, but it’s a very strange brand, and not [...]


Internet Brands Personified

I have talked about my branding philosophy and how I believe that brands are the human elements of non-human entities, like companies. In this internet video, that philosophy comes to life as a number of popular web companies are brought to life, to force an intervention against MySpace.
Note how each brand is represented. Are the [...]


Pentagram Black Book unboxing

Today I got my copy of the Pentagram Black Book, which made its way around the blogosphere a few weeks ago. I, being not that important, only received one because I was quick enough to email in and request one. Lucky me!
Plain brown cardboard, perfectly sufficient. And not in a huge box like Amazon.
Celophane wrapping [...]


Time for a New Design?

This site has been in its current incarnation for a while now — about 15 months by my count. Not a terribly long time, but in Internet years, that’s ancient. Is it time for a redesign?
Considering I built the template using CSS and web standards, the transition should be seamless — upload a new theme [...]


MySpace is dead to me.

I officially cancelled my MySpace account after about a year of waining interest and use. The final straw was the fact that my account got hacked for the second time, and someone, I suspect a bot, posted spam comments on several friends’ pages. Need a design reason why MySpace is over:

As you can see, the [...]


Web Typography Goes Big

As that web has exploded in popularity over the past ten or so years, we’ve somehow let the typographic capabilities slip. Being limited to those same 6 or so typefaces and a pure horizontal grid can be a challenge to any designer. But designers are finally breaking free and innovating in new and exciting ways. [...]


The End of Print? Examples of Good Web Typography

David Carson wrote The End of Print back in 1995. Looking back, that was a truly infantile era of electronic media — with the exception of computer games and the odd CD-ROM, there really were no media sources that were being tested and pushed. The web was new. And oh so ugly.
Cut to today, in [...]


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