Book review: Stop, Think, Go, Do: How Typography and Graphic Design Influence Behavior by Steven Heller & Mirko Ilić The book describes the most effective principles of the design that gets under our skin with numerous examples. In this post I wil ...
Creativity now!
Post based on the book: Creativity Now: Get Inspired, Create Ideas and Make Them Happen! Getting in the state of mind that invites new ideas: Music - Baroque music with 60 cycles per second (frequency of alpha state) is frequency associated with cre ...
think!
Post based on the book Think! by Tina Catling and Mark Davies "If you always do what you've always done you'll always get what you've always got." The book starts with this great quote that is also very interestingly designed so it immediately sparks yo ...
Critisism
As a creatives we shouldn't be afraid to fail. Great talk by Brené Brown. "Design is a function of connection, there is nothing more vulnerable than creativity, and what is art if it's not love."
Legibility
Typographic Design: Form and Communication book by Rob Carter, Ben Day and Philip Megs Chapter 4 starts with thoughts on how legibility is often neglected by designers. Communicating clearly and appropriately should be a definite responsibility of typo ...
Using Type
Using Type book by Michael Harkins, published by AVA Publishing in 2010 Chapter 1 helps us to understand typography better. Typography has to be clear and in a way we have to notice it, although it shouldn't distract us from the meaning. To separate ty ...