From the category archives:
Design & Code
Typical Design
Typical. Type-ical. Typographic.
Love this post from Cameron Moll on Techniques for Designing with Type Characters. I’ve been a typography junky since I was quite young and still have my childhood manual on how to form calligraphic characters by hand.
A while back I found myself assembling a Tinderbox research file that required me to roam the web for examples of type used as art, type used to create pictures and tag clouds.
Font designer Manfred Klein has some font examples (of images made from words, letterforms or type elements), including one featured in Symbol & Icon Fonts Online called TypeFaces…
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Kudos from wp-premiums
It’s always nice when fledgeling blog gets noticed. Okay, true enough that Wild Keys has been around since 2003, been blogspotted by MSNBC and the likes of Mark Bernstein and Jill Walker, but it’s followed a very interrupted and mult-url-ed path.
The current design is my mod of Chris Pearson’s first “pro” design, Thesis. I chose to use this theme now that I’m using WordPress because Chris’ previous work is so fine and his design and markup goals and philosophy are so similar to my own. Thesis itself bore a striking resemblance to the redesign of Hit Those Keys that I recently deployed, so the framework seemed like an ideal and timely choice as I get comfortable with WordPress as a publishing platform. So, yay. Thanks, PJ, for the kudos.
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Courtney Sheinmel’s so-called website
There’s a new website on the block: author Courtney Sheinmel, whose novel My So-Called Family debuts in the fall, commissioned me to design and produce her site. We launched last night.
The creative brief was fun and a challenge. We chose to draw inspiration for the design from something meaningful of Courtney’s: her grandmother’s china.
Of course this wasn’t translated literally–I aimed for a mood and a bit of old-fashioned elegance. The gilding on the teacup became the outlines of the content areas, headlines, initial caps and logomark. The row of dots along the rim of the cup, reminiscent of egg-and-dart moldings, became the pattern that trims the top and bottom of the page. The green accent color, so felicitously also the dominant color in the bookjacket, became a unifying element:
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