31 December 2009
The Better Posters checklist
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Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a quick way to know if people will walk past your poster, or to know if all your friends are just too polit...
24 December 2009
Breathing design
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Design is like air. It’s invisible. It’s everywhere. You only notice it when there’s something wrong with it. Photo by Shery Han on...
17 December 2009
Hold that spot: Placeholder text
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Maybe want to start laying out your posters, but you haven’t written the text yet. Maybe you want to see how a new typeface will look. There...
10 December 2009
Leading thoughts
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“Not enough room between lines” is listed as the number one mistake on this list of common typographic errors. Many of the others are aimed...
03 December 2009
The eye loves the circle
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Kimberly Elam wrote: The human eye loves the circle and embraces it. While I am a strong advocate of laying out posters on a grid, you can e...
01 December 2009
Compare and contrast: Japanese advertising posters
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“With clutter ubiquitous, emptiness gets attention.” Check Garr Reynold’s Posterous blog for a look at two very different approaches to g...
26 November 2009
Learning from failure
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Here’s the story of an ad agency that tried to redesign a major newspaper . They didn’t get the job, but there is a lot to learn by studyin...
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