I stumbled across one of Apple’s classic ad campaigns. Watch Jobs pitch it below: Found this via Young Guns vs. Old Ones. Inspiring, and a masterpiece of advertisement. Makes me wonder how differently Apple were thinking when they announced Ping their new social network for music. Despite championing HTML5 it would seem Apple have now [...]
Before I get into the meaty part of this post I’d like to share this by Kyle Steed: Homer’s “Iliad” and “Odyssey” are epic. Beowulf is epic. The design you saw last night on Dribbble is not epic. Funny and true. I’m guilty of this myself, despite vowing a very long time ago never to write a [...]
Around this time last year I was blogging about the then-new Typekit service and the news of Typotheque offering web licenses. I enquired as to when (or whether) the big font foundries would embrace the new world of web fonts. Or if they would sit back and watch the licensing nightmare unfold. Well, this month has answered a few [...]
The trouble with writing for two design blogs is that all the positive stuff tends to drift towards one of them (especially when it’s called Design Heroes). So in an effort to balance the love I present a run down of all the brilliant creativity I’ve been blogging about over the last few months. Favourites of June Hayaku: [...]
In the wake of Dribbble’s collective ego collapsing in on itself as Jason Lynes posted an hilarious meta-dribbble on community ettiqutte - we’re all left wondering, what did he want to achieve by it? His blog post “Dribbble Etiquette” explains further: Except a few people on Dribbble still don’t get it. They don’t get the point. So [...]
There has been a lot of debate recently in the web design social networks about whether a web designer should be able to code. I didn’t contribute much to the question because the answer is obviously yes, but I did think long and hard about my own practices. Today Smashing Magazine published a great article [...]
There’s more to being a professional designer than pushing around pixels. I realise the truth behind this more and more every day. I’d estimate I spend somewhere between 10–25% of my week interacting with clients. This relationship dictates everything I do in my job. If I want to enjoy it and produce design to be [...]