Exploring and understanding audience, encouraging communication, announcing excerpts and celebrating book releases. Just basically talking about websites... and the occasional cupcake.
Life is too short to be businesslike ALL the time. And the web offers all kinds of opportunities to break molds. Copywise, we love this apology for the site being under construction. Of course, one wonders why the old site wouldn’t suffice while the new one was being built, but there are always extenuating circumstances.
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Really bad. So bad I can’t post straight screenshots because that would just be snarky. It’s a small industry, our niche market is, and were I to post these If your site looks like this, redesign immediately examples, I am just being mean. So I took small screenshots and did my best to preserve the [...]
ETA: Due to public disgust, GAP NIXES UGLY NEW LOGO IN FAVOR OF THE OLD BLUE SQUARE. Their press release afirms everything we said in this blog post. Power to the people and all us design nerds! –Max
Or rather, it should have been about buy-in.
A few days ago, on their Facebook page, Gap updated their [...]
I love this on many levels. As a designer I am humbled. As someone who respects the spoken and written word and the power of a good, well-formed sentence, I applaud this. As a parent I am relieved that there are people like Taylor Mali who choose to become teachers. He is my new hero. [...]
Sometimes spending an extra half hour to an hour to get minute details right is the difference between a design studio and a really good design studio with experienced visual designers.
Look at a bunch of websites… look closely at the space to the sides of the images. Does the content goes too close to a [...]
