January 2008 Archives

10 Principles Of Effective Web Design

Smashing Magazine article on Effective Web Design:

"We aren’t going to discuss the implementation details (e.g. where the search box should be placed) as it has already been done in a number of articles; instead we focus on the main principles, heuristics and approaches for effective web design — approaches which, used properly, can lead to more sophisticated design decisions and simplify the process of perceiving presented information."

Read the article here

Lettering Grows in Brooklyn

A survey of lettering in Brooklyn by Paul Shaw:

"Last spring, in preparation for a talk on lettering at the Coney Island Museum, I surveyed as many Brooklyn neighborhoods as I could. During the months of March and April I managed to record lettering in roughly half of the borough."

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/lettering-grows-in-brooklyn

Podcast with David Malouf on the foundations of Interaction design including time, metaphor, abstraction, and negative space.

Web Trend Map 2008

300 influential web sites mapped onto a Tokyo train map.

http://www.informationarchitects.jp/webtrendmap3/trendmap2008.html

Principles of Design

6-part series on the Principles of Design at the Design Meltdown site:

http://designmeltdown.com/chapters/DesignPrinciples/

A journey through the world of typography with graphic designer Michael Bierut:

Watch the video here »

How to Shoot Light Trails

Great tutorial at Digital Photography School site on shooting light trails:

"Light Trails continue to be popular subject matter for many photographers and they can actually be a great training ground for those wanting to get their cameras out of manual mode and to experiment with shooting in low light at longer exposures.

Following area few examples of light trail shots as well as some practical starting point tips for those wanting to give it a go."

Light-Trails-Photography
http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-shoot-light-trails/