Weathered / Worn / Stamped Effect
Helpful hints to distress type from FontShop. Link.
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Influencing Potential Clients
“Selling is all about influence skills, yet few of us have learned how to apply the art and science of influence to our work. Influence is not something with which we’re born. It can be learned, and there are numerous studies that have demonstrated the principles of influencing other people.” Link.
How to Kern
All the effort and time it takes to kern properly is completely worth it. Link.
Doing the Unstuck
“Unlimited resources reduce creativity.” I’ve always felt that the more restrictions I have when designing, the more freedom I have to be creative. Link.
The New Rules of Naming
This confirms nicely why the name Gillico came into being. We’re number 1 on Google, by the way… Link.
Why do you need a website?
Having a clear strategy is a good thing. Really. Link.
Give up Control
Your web site is a tiny piece of a much larger experience. Nobody sees your web site the way you expected. Few use your content the way you intended. Link.
Nielsen’s top 10 for 2005
Legibility problems, non-standardized links and Flash take top honors for the worst web design mistakes, as usual. Link.
5 simple steps to better typography
It’s the little touches that distinguish good design from bad. Link.
Design Library
Jason Santa Maria has collected a good list of books for anyone seriously interested in design. There’s some on that list i need to pick up for myself. Link.
