Archive for the 'Design' Category

Pure CSS / HTML image switcher - July 31st, 2007

Image Switcher

Here’s a quick guide on how to create a very simple html/css image switcher (or gallery if you like) without the need for any scripting.

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Sao Paulo: City Without Ads - June 30th, 2007

No Ads

“What happens when a mayor decides to ban advertisements in a vibrant city of 11 million people with more than 8,000 billboards? Impossible, insane, absurd, or just plain genius? Well this is what happened this past January when mayor Gilberto Kassabs “Clean City” law was introduced in Sao Paulo Brazil banning any form of advertising throughout the city to rid of “visual clutter”. (reminds me of the “advertising is graffiti” stunt, or my dislike for posters in Milan).”

Brilliant! More info at Design Verb.

Typographics - June 17th, 2007

Typography

Typographics is a movie about typography from the Vancouver Film school by Boca (aka Marcos Ceravolo) and Ryan Uhrich.

Felix Heinen - May 27th, 2007

Felix Heinen

Checkout the work by German designer Felix Heinen. Really beautiful designs, especially his recent “Data visualisation of a social network” work, if only we could see it up close and working.

untitled2! - May 12th, 2007

untitled2

Some really nice work here by Minneapolis designer Vance Wellenstein. I especially like the MCAD Course Catalog work.

Top 100 Fonts - May 3rd, 2007

Top 100 Fonts

The German FontShop have recently announced the results of their search for the top 100 typefaces.

Helvetica and Futura, yes please.