February 14th, 2012 By Lee Steele Excelsior Circ. 75,000 – 174,999 Judges’ Statement While this is the first time they have won World’s Best, when the pages of a redesigned Excelsior showed up on the SND judging tables in 2007, the previously little-known daily sparked great excitement in seasoned judges and assistants
OK Go – Needing/Getting – Official Video We’ve shown you OK Go’s videos before (here and here), but if you’ever never seen one, all we can say is that they make Rube Goldberg look lazy. Their latest spot, done for the Superbowl and featuring a music-making Chevy Sonic loaded up with retractable arms, absolutely takes the cake That’s a
So you’ve finished school, or are looking for a new job. Maybe you need to update your book in preparation for an upcoming interview. What do you do? What are some best practices and pitfalls to avoid when presenting your work? Tim Lapetino and Jason Adam are partners in Hexanine, a design firm focused on brand
Like most well-designed things, the magic of an iPad app comes from a union of usefulness, usability and meaning. Games aside, the app must be useful by solving a problem that people actually have through the right set of functionality at the right time. It must be easy to use and, just as importantly, easy to get started using,
Redesign. The word itself can send shudders down the spines of any Web designer and developer. For many designers and website owners, the imminent onslaught of endless review cycles, coupled with an infinite number of “stakeholders” and their inevitable “opinions,” would drive them to shave their heads with a cheese grater if given a choice
HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, and is a core technology of the Internet originally proposed by Opera Software.[1] It is the fifth revision of the HTMLstandard (created in 1990 and standardized as HTML4 as of 1997)[2] and as of December 2011 is still under development. Its core aims have been to improve the language with
The advancement of technology is coming about at light speed. I still remember that I learned using a PC on monochrome (black and white) monitors, and even my teacher didn’t know to use a mouse. We used DOS as the operating system 1MB floppy drive was the only way for data transfer, nobody knew about
In this article, I’d like to reacquaint you with the humble workhorse of communication that is the paragraph. Paragraphs are everywhere. In fact, at the high risk of stating the obvious, you are reading one now. Despite their ubiquity, we frequently neglect their presentation. This is a mistake. Here, we’ll refer to some time-honored typesetting
Remember my last few posts which are a blend of humor and professional advice… here we go again. It’s another fun fun article. This time I have made a list of 15 signs which if you have in yourself, you can’t be a designer. And to end, I have added a few professional quick tips.
Death its very possibly the best invention of life. She is the agent whom it changes to life. It clears the old thing and it gives entrance to the new thing. It makes us see that our time is limited It is not necessary to squander it living the life of another person or in