It used to be, design work was presented in person. A pitch would be made in a board room, explaining the process behind a design, and it would be unveiled before the client. Nowadays, more and more design work is presented remotely, which is great for your flexible schedule, but takes all of the theater out of “selling” your work. E-mail isn’t very professional, PowerPoint and PDFs present version-control issues, and conference calls made over WebEx aren’t asynchronous for the hectic schedules of yourself and your clients. You just need a simple way to present work to your clients, on nice, professional-looking, clickable, web pages. That’s why we built 4sli.de. Peep the rest »
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Many web applications suffer from feature bloat. Their Product Development teams fall victim to thinking that just because one, or even two, or even three users suggest a feature, that it should be implemented. The result is a more complex application that requires more development time, more stuff that can go wrong, more maintenance. How do you prevent this problem? Peep the rest »
I’ve encountered many back-end web developers who feel that there’s alot of mystery - even snobbery - behind visual design. There are plenty of rules of do’s and don’ts for web design out there, but I wanted to condense some of the theories behind design into a few simple concepts. I presented this at BarCampChicago so you know what to look for to understand the next great design you see. Check out the great video of the presentation that my shadow made:
I not-so-recently sat down with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery of 36point.com’s Reflex Blue Show to talk about networking for designers - hopefully, without being a webcock - and to take my first sip of Mountain Dew in over a decade. Check it out here!
Kadavy.net has redesigned, and boy are we excited! This is our first redesign in years, and it’s a doozy.
I sat down with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery of The Reflex Blue Show to get really geeky on fonts. Give it a direct listen here, or view the post.
A few years ago, I noticed that there were no resources for Graphic Designers to learn about how to reduce the environmental impact of their print projects. I’ve done some research on the subject lately, and I have found that much more information has been popping up, however, it is scattered throughout the web and trying to sift through it all is overwhelming to say the least.
As you may have heard on my latest Be A Design Cast appearance, I have launched SustainablePrint.org: a wiki that will - with the help of folks like you - become the most comprehensive resource for Designers to consult when trying to reduce the environmental impact of their print projects.
As you can see on the site, I have gotten the ball rolling, but I only know so much about this subject so in order to be successful the project needs the expertise and experience of members of the Design, Paper, and Printing industries. Please help by contributing, offerring your suggestions, and telling every design, printing, and paper expert you know!
Just can’t afford that designer brand? Or maybe you want the name, but not all of that…class. Well, now you can make your own t-shirt in any brand you want!
- Get a blank t-shirt.
- Order some letters. bonus typographer points if you can piece together something decent from a sheet full of individual letters.
- Spell out your favorite designer brand on the t-shirt, using the letters, and iron them on.
- Wear your stylish new shirt proudly on the street.
There are two new places on the internets where you can hear my voice if you’re so inclined:
Bring the collaborative power of the internet to print by helping Be A Design Group design the cover of STEP Inside Design’s prestigious STEP 100. You can comment on existing designs, or have your photography featured on the cover. Here’s how to contribute:
- Sign up for a Flickr account (if you don’t already have one).
- Join the Be A Design Group…group on flickr.
- Much like the “BA” photos you see scattered throughout Be A Design Group and the flickr group, take as many photos of “100’s” as you can and upload them to the Be A Design Group…group with the tag “step100.” Be creative.
- Comment on and root for your favorite photos in the flickr group.
- As our cover develops in the following rounds we will experiment with different ways of presenting the collection of everyone’s “100” photos.
- See the best photos on the cover of the STEP 100.
