Tag: design
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Developers Should Learn Design, Designers Should Learn to Code
I’ve pondered the question over the entire course of my time working as a freelancer and continue to ponder it to this day: Should developers learn to design? The common advice to designers is that yes, you should learn to code. But what about the other way around? With the recent push to get more […]
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CSS Font Weights Explained
Those not too hip with typography might at one point wonder, “Why are the font weights on a ranking scale from 100 to 900?” Where are those numbers coming from? It was actually an interesting questions brought up to me recently that I hadn’t thought much of. After all, no one’s breaking the internet over […]
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A Few Words About Logo Salads
Here I thought I was the first person to use Logo Salad. Evidently, others have been thinking the same thing: Logo Salad on Urban Dictionary Stop using logo salads on your websites. It’s cliche, and pretty meaningless. I mean, unless you designed those logos, in which case, you’d probably get better results from displaying them […]
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Two Easy Ways to Pair Typefaces
Typography is the love of most graphic and web designers. But for some, it can be an intimidating task. Pairing together the right typefaces to create a cohesive design comes from years of experience studying type and understanding how one typeface interacts with another can depend on a huge amount of factors. Here are some […]
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Resources: Some Useful Design Books
Most of my first two years of higher education were spent in a dark room with ten to fifteen other people, drawing from a still life or live model. Sometimes we were loosed outside to sit in the frigid autumns of Canada to commit a landscape to paper. Later on, I started getting more design, […]