*Please pardon the un-styled mess why I am rethinking and re-designing my blog!*
One of the things I love most about the design community is the willingness to help other. Often times if I have a graphic design or web development question I turn to twitter, dribble, or forrst for help. In a matter of minutes I usually find the answer or the feedback I was looking for. In order to contribute to this ‘helpfullness’ I’ve started to answer questions via Formspring. And If I can’t answer your question I’ll try to find someone who can!
So if you have a graphic design, web design or freelancing related question? I’d love to answer it!
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Posted in Graphic Design, Web Design
Just discovered a nifty little :hover option in firebug today! Very useful, but annoyingly hidden! I tweeted about this earlier today and it seems that lots of front end developers did’nt know about this either! (So maybe im not that slow!!!)
If you guys have any tips for using firebug leave a comment and share!
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Posted in Web Design
In this quick tip I show you how to make a hatched linen texture that is making its rounds through the interwebs. Hatched texture is the new filter>add noise! 
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Posted in podcasts, Quick Tips, Screencasts, Web Design
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Remember back when you were in design school and it seemed like all you did was sketch comps for your design projects? (Ok maybe that was just me having to do hundreds and hundreds of typographic sketches per the assignment of an awesome professor @almahoffmann)
How is it that I’ve fallen away from this practice of constantly sketching out my ideas? I blame my computer! Or something like that…
Oh yeah, I remember. Life gets busy. You have real project deadlines to work with and sometimes the sketching phase can get skipped. Luckily the place that I work encourages and includes sketching as part of our design process. I’ll admit that getting used to sketching again was hard for me. I was so used to immediately jumping on the computer and hashing out my ideas.
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According to teh intertubewebz [wikipedia] typography is:
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing), adjusting the spaces between groups of letters (tracking) and adjusting the space between pairs of letters (kerning)
I’ll be the first person to admit that I find typographic design incredibly difficult. Its all about details – small teensy tinsy details. Kerning, tracking, leading, color, visual weight and lots more. The details can be overwhelming. But when you get them right its awesome… just really freaking awesome.
Good typography is difficult – and thats why its worth spending the time and effort.
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Posted in design, typography
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