From the daily archives:

Saturday, January 16, 2010

The ABC’s of Branding

January 16, 2010

Orlando designer Jason Dean has recently made the beautiful ABC’s of Branding poster available on his new storefront for The Best Part.com. Created without ink, these eye-catching, 18″ x 24″ pieces are foil stamped, then embossed on 100 lb. French Pop-Tone, individually stamped, signed and numbered. Featuring many of the world’s most famous (and infamous) logos and [...]

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Kerning and the Mystical Concept of Flow

January 16, 2010

It’s been a few years now, but when I first took on a job at CustomInk.com as a Production Artist, I was affectionately refereed to as “the Kernal” due to my hyper critical attention to kerning pairs when proofing customer orders about to print. I’m only slightly ashamed to admit that my perceptions of “wrong” [...]

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Looking Back Before We Move Forward

January 16, 2010

As we draw ever closer to Apple’s iSlate announcement later this month, WebDesignLedger.com has been nice enough to assemble a great collection of vintage Apple advertisements on their site, including the above image of (my family’s very first home computer) the Apple IIc. For me, these photos bring with them a rash of sepia-toned memories [...]

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