Last night I had the pleasure of seeing Stefan Sagmeister speak at the Salazar Awards. He was totally inspirational, but really – what was I expecting? The guy is throughly entertaining and he managed to make all of us polite Canadians squirm and laugh at the same time with his stories of jelly fish exhibits gone awry, leaving his intern to be interrogated by the FBI and simply shouting "shut the f#%k up!" to a noisy bunch on the other [...]
The other day I was surfing the web for a Christmas gift for my niece when I came across something called "Crayon Physics". Not everyone loves physics but who doesn’t love crayons? This is a great game with lots of potential and it is free you can pretend you are a kid again and play with your crayons! Some of the levels are a bit challenging – but it is a fun way to apply physics to this make believe [...]
Tired of the using the same old fonts? Smashing Magazine has put together a great collection of free fonts. Yes, you read correctly – FREE! And they aren’t garbage fonts either. There are some nice alternatives if you are one of those designers stuck on using the same san serif font or if you are looking for a new classic. For example, District Thin is a beautiful san serif font, especially if you are looking for that nice clean thin [...]
In May I wrote a post about the documentary film Helvetica by Gary Hustwit, and last night I finally was able to see it. I had great expectations, not because it was a film on Helvetica, but because it was a film on type. I wasn’t disappointed. Gary Hustwit did a great job of portraying the love/hate relationship people have with the font as well as giving some history of type in graphic design. The film was filled with some [...]
I’ve always been a huge fan of type, it pretty much comes with the design industry, but I haven’t always been a fan of Helvetica. When I was in school it was almost looked down upon to use Helvetica because it seemed like the safe choice – we are suppose to push the envelope – think out of the box. Once I graduated and began working in the ‘real world’ I soon discovered that Helvetica is much more then a [...]