In a satisfying moment of serendipity that web browsing allows so many of us, I found an extended discussion about recent developments about the expanding opportunities to use creative fonts on websites to follow up on yesterday’s brief history of two popular print fonts (Baskerville and Gill Sans). The development of fonts from the scribe’s […]
#GraphicDesign: Fonts Faces Provide The Foundation Of Good Communication
Whenever the first homo sapien (sapien) first put his or her finger into clay or ash and marked that clay or ash to communicate an idea to another person, she or he created written language, and perhaps a font face. Over the next N millennia language groups evolved largely toward two camps: the pictographic written […]
#DESIGN: NASDAQ – Communications Materials
The Challenge: NASDAQ approached MKCREATIVE and asked for help generating a large number of fact sheets to very exacting brand and design standards. These fact sheets are used to market the client’s products and services to it’s own clients and to its strategic partners. Our Solution: MKCREATIVE assigned a small team to develop and institute […]
The Gaps In The New Logo From The Gap (Design By Proxy)
Yesterday we discussed the rise and fall of the new logo for The Gap (rising and falling in about three days). The Gap Company is not the first to take on a logo redesign only to have the effort eviscerated by customers and critics (See, for examples, Tropicana and Pepsi. If the fact of the […]
#Branding: The Gaps In The New Logo From The Gap (Attacks From The Vox Populi)
The people (er, ‘lots of people’) have spoken. And they are miffed. The social-media universe (expanding, yet sometimes surprisingly small) was all atwitter with comments about the new logo accepted (momentarily) by The Gap after it opened up the opportunity to anyone who wanted to participate in a design contest. The entries ran into the […]
Housing post-Katrina: What FEMA Can’t Do, Brad Pitt and Friends Can
The hurricane was tracked for a week before it made landfall in western Mississippi. We knew it was coming and had ample time to move people out, to board up homes, to store up supplies… Instead, the planning from the federal administration was desultory, and many within New Orleans admitted that they thought they could […]
Net Neutrality Debate Gets The Treatment
Sometimes serendipity meets synchronicity on anyone’s social-network radar, and a few different views of the same issue materialize before our very eyes. We had a moment of such pleasure today as we were directed to an infographic entitled “15 Facts About Net Neutrality.” Over the last couple of weeks we have posted a number of […]
Information As Data And As Pictures Can Make Learning Efficient (And Fun)
Earlier today the TED website (Technology, Education, and Design) posted a wonderful talk by David McCandless entitled “The Beauty of Data Visualization,” in which he spends about 18 minutes showing the audience the ease and pleasure with which some pretty arcane, humane, and controversial material can best be learned with a combination of ‘traditional’ data […]