From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Three Books on Colour – Part Two: An Eye for Color

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An Eye for Color by the fantastically-named Olga Gutierrez de la Roza is the second in our Three Books on Colour series following on from Kelvin: Colour Today, which we reviewed in Decemeber.
I was initially a bit skeptical about yet another book on colour, especially these days with sites like Adobe’s Kuler and [...]

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Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks

Web Form Design

I hate forms. Germany is full of bureaucrats that love them, but their forms are amongst some of the most poorly designed I have ever encountered. The ones lying under the book in the picture above have been sitting on my desk for a year waiting to find someone who can understand them. A year! [...]

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The Back of The Napkin

The subtitle of Dan Roam’s best-selling book, The Back of the Napkin is “Solving problems and selling ideas with pictures” – a reasonable description of what designers do for a living. If you are thinking you have nothing more to learn on that front, think again, because Roam has plenty to help sharpen those skills [...]

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Back on the Grid

I have been off the grid all last week in the Australian bush (see above) and then in the air for the excruciatingly long flight back to Germany, so I felt a little editorial news was in order. I can recommend a week of being unplugged though.
The review pile grows ever taller with some fantastic [...]

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This Rimy River: Vaughn Oliver and Graphic Works 1988-94

Guest review by Tobias Grime

This Rimy River: Vaughn Oliver and Graphic Works 1988-94 is probably the most worn out and dog-eared design book I have. And for good reason – since it was published in 1994, it has felt as visually fresh as the day it was produced.

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Indexed

Before we begin, I should admit that I think Jessica Hagy is pretty cool and her blog Indexed is not only a regular read, but also one of the things on my far-too-long a list of “things I wish I had thought of”.
It is no surprise that Time magazine listed Indexed in their pick of [...]

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Shapes for Sounds

Guest Review by David Sherwin

A is for Aleph. B is for Beit. G is for Gimel…
When I was a child, Hebrew was beaten into me by a series of well-meaning teachers. Upon reflection, they were probably my first foray into hand-lettering type. Sadly, the letters stuck, but comprehension of the words peeled away past my [...]

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