Posts Tagged: Graphic Design and Designers
Tokkii Tees
Everyone's favorite dog, Tokkii, is now selling fantastic t-shirts for the ladies. Well, Tokkii's friend and provider of food and shelter, the lovely and talented Iva Olah, has started a small business making custom shirts. • Iva's making all of the shirts herself starting with American Apparel …
Favourite Favicons: Ten
Here's yet another installment of favicons to add to the ever-growing original collection. Again, there are some really fine examples of design in an incredibly constrained space. I especially like the US Airways icon which is an elegantly simple scaled-down version of their already fine emblem …
The Zen of CSS Reviewed
Before I get this review of Dave Shea's book The Zen of CSS Design started, let me get an important disclosure and a shameless name drop out of the way as they kind of go together anyway. I had the good fortune of attending the FITC conference here in Toronto back at the end of April where Dave …
You Pimped My Firefox!
According to its bling designers: "Pimpzilla is a theme for the browser Firefox. It's also probably the most tacky & overdone piece of GUI design out there, aimed solely for true internet-connaisseurs [sic]. If you are into fur and lot's [sic] of bling, this is the theme for you." The bejewelled …
Such Dizzying Heights
Via the venerable boingboing comes an absolutely incredible composite photo of Toronto taken from above the CN Tower. Squiggle (the photographer's Flickr name) compiled this shot of the whole downtown, waterfront, and environs from photos taken from the CN Tower skypod, 443 m above the ground …
Favourite Favicons: Nine
What the heck, here are a ton of additions to the favicon collection I started what seems like ages ago. There are some really stellar examples here. I just ran into the Hotwheels one tonight to top off the new additions at thirty and who would have thunk that everyone's favourite German …
Flash in the Can
I've just registered for the upcoming Flash in the Can conference here in Toronto in ealry April. It sounds like a great line-up. James Patterson of Presstube fame, Dave Shea from Mezzoblue, Michael Cina of We Work for Them, and Joshua Davis who does just about everything are just a few of this …
Generic Toner Cartidges?
I need to buy new toner for my Canon i950 color inkjet printer and I'm curious if anyone out there has experience or advice about purchasing generic cartridges. The normal manufacturer's cartridges cost about $20 CDN each and there are six of them in this printer so it really adds up. Are the …
All Wrapped Up
Yesterday a friend and I got a chance to see the new Christo and Jeanne-Claude exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario. It's a fantastic collection of photographs, film, and preparatory sketches of their wrapping and landscape alteration projects including famous projects they've done such as the …
Stop Stealing Sheep
I've probably bought about a half dozen books on typography over the past two years in an effort to broaden my very basic knowledge of type. It's not like I want to form a foundry myself or anything, I just have very little background in type having worked almost exclusively in web design where …