Archive for June, 2008

Bionic Ear: Before and After

Friday, June 27th, 2008

A few months ago Jacob Cass has announced a $5000 Graphic Design Articles Writing Project and Inspiration Bit was one of the project’s sponsors. Meryl from Meryl.net has won my prize—logo design, blog consultation and critique. As it turned out later, I too won one of the prizes offered by Meryl: a gold subscription to […]

Meticulous Design: Image Styling

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

It’s been said many times that images support the written word, add visual interest to articles and help to break down long posts by drawing the reader’s attention to pictures and the lines that precede and follow. Nowadays it’s not a problem to find images that support our posts with dozens of free and commercial […]

Contrasting Approaches To Web Design

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Last night I was reading 37Signals’ post Web designers should do their own HTML/CSS, where it was claimed that all designers should get their hands dirty with HTML and CSS rather than handing off their Photoshop mockups to “html monkeys” and expect them to do the coding part. A few days prior to that 37Signals […]

Brandwashed In 8 Minutes

Friday, June 6th, 2008

As soon as I read David Airey’s post on 33 minutes with 33 logos, where he joined a number of other bloggers who shared their days or mornings, surrounded by brands, I grabbed my camera and started snapping away. Originally I thought of recording only how my three-year-old daughter is getting brainwashed with brands from […]

Behind The Scenes Of Exquisite Web Typography - Part Four

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

It’s been awhile since I sneaked behind the scenes of web sites with stunning typography. But today you’ll be getting a double dose of digital inspiration from me: by checking out my first guest appearance on Typesites, where I put Rob Goodlatte’s site under my trusty microscope, and of course, by sticking to my site […]