- ARCHIVE / August, 2007
- Ask.com Missed the Point
While watching Top Chef last night with my wife, I saw an ad for ask.com that stuck with me… Even as I woke up this morning, I was thinking about the ad.
The ad was very aggressive and went after the big dog on the block: Google - not specifically by name, of course.
The ad’s only [...] - Bad Business Cards
I posted in early July about The Art of the Business Card. Seth Godin posted today about contemporary business card design. He has a short list of common mistakes made when designing business cards (i.e. using Avery cutout sheets, making your type size too large, etc..)
I personally think he hits the nail right on the [...] - Life is a Highway
My buddy Joe Hays sent me a link to this New York Times article - The Road to Clarity.
It’s about Don Meeker, an environmental designer’s quest to improve the legibility of typography used on American highway signs. The article chronicles Meeker’s typeface, Clearview Gothic, and his attempts to convince the U.S. bureaucracy to replace the [...] - Everything Communicates
Alright, so I’m fully aware that most of my life I have seen things and looked at things slightly askew. Things would always seem funny to me that nobody else thought was funny. Or I would see shapes in ordinary objects that nobody else could see. I’m sure this is somehow connected to my arithmomania [...]
- Photo Strip
Still so much in love with her…