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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Friday, January 25, 2008

Guardian digital archive



Search over 150 years of news from the Guardian.

try type on fontshop


fontshop have been doing this for a while but the type test is great for trying new fonts with out loading.

softporn or fashion



Just like beards, 70s typography and recession is soft porn back in. Afters years of unlimited hard core online are we yearning for the days when some of nature was left hidden. Mr Teller being the king of soft core surely knows.

touch music

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Herb Lubalin




Herb Lubalin was the typographer that made me want to work in advertising. He made type have a whole new layer of meaning, he some how managed to mix the best of European design (Avant Garde) with the best of American brashness. His scamps were art pieces in themselves. Good to see this poster, it feels so relevant.

Friday, January 11, 2008

at last group94 launch their site

But we miss the video excuses. Bring them back.
Nice site though.

adobe kuler site

Create palettes of colour and name them. It's colour community.

chemical brothers site

A little late but here goes, I met Tim from 3ev this week and he seems like a nice bloke, so here's his site for chemical brothers. The chronicles and fans memory section is a great UGC idea.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

last.fm learn from mistakes

I really agree with Hannah Donovan, Last.fm’s head of creative, for building a successful web application. Her top tip? Make mistakes read more.

The important thing is to build the audience and then improve stuff as you go. Clients often look at digital as a one hit wonder when really it is about a long term progressive dialog with the users. If something doesn't work change it, if something is out of budget do it next quarter. This thinking is true for stats as well, use the real stats to give the user more of what they want.