As a designer, I have thousands of fonts floating around on my computers. It’s hard to keep track of them, let alone remember how each one looks. There are times when you see something and you KNOW you have the font, but you can’t place the name of the typeface. I had one of these situations yesterday. A client gave me a text “logo” that [...]

442 King St., Charleston, South Carolina. That’s the location of what looks like some exceptionally tasty cuisine. That’s where you will find Fish. From their website: “Fish Restaurant showcases the finest local, sustainable ingredients with an always-changing menu and a French-Asian flair. Executive chef Nico Romo, the youngest chef to ever earn the distinction of Master Chef of France, blends his skills at creating classic [...]

There are a few things that I really love in this world. Music is one of them. And so as I was roaming the halls of the Internet this week, I came across this week’s site, Atlantic Records. To be honest, I haven’t thought about record companies really since I lived in southern California, so when I came across Atlantic’s site, it was interesting to [...]

It’s been quite a while, so I figured that a good way to get back into posting things is to find a great Site of the Week. In our first time out for our return to posting is an agency in Toronto called Grip Limited. Interesting navigation. Overall, the site can seem a bit cluttered based on the concept of the design, but because of [...]

As a designer and programmer, design and usability is always a touchy subject when you’re dealing with the Web. There are a lot of so-called “experts” out there that will tell you one thing and then another will come along and contradict it. When looking through any site dealing with design and usability, please keep in mind that 99% of the time, whatever is said [...]

There are times where it can be embarrassing to be a designer.  People in the industry that think they know something can make the lot of the good designers look really bad.  This is one of those times.  Why?  Well, I came across an article today on Fast Company. It’s about a “designer,” Dustin Curtis and his reaction to the current website for American Airlines. [...]

Someone here at work earlier asked me about my opinions on a website design. While there wasn’t anything “wrong” per se, there was plenty wrong. Confused? Good, I thought you’d be. The page seemed fine from a design structure standpoint. There were a few designy things that I never would have touched, like icky looking tabs and the placement of some things… lines around the [...]