If you’ve been following my Design Heroes blog you’ll know I’ve recently been impressed with two (1, 2) different excerpts from Simon Garfield’s new book Just My Type. So much so that I purchased and read it as fast as humanly possible. The book starts with a chapter on Comic Sans, illustrating the significant impact a font can [...]
I’ve been suspiciously silent on this blog lately. Not sure what’s wrong with me! I’m still blogging daily at designheroes.co.uk. That’s where I post all my inspiration, interests and opinions on the latest design news & events. I’ve also been rapidly developing LoveDsgn which has gone from a small to monumentally massive project in the space [...]
Did you hear? Print is dead! That’s what they’ve been saying for years, decades even. The decline in newspaper sales is often the evidence for such a statement, citing that ‘digital/social/new media’ is what the kids are craving. I’ve always felt that the bullshit and lies printed on the front page (and every page thereafter) [...]
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: [...]