Articles Tagged #design
Quick Plays: Font Confusion & How to Avoid It
In today’s tip, we’re talking about text overload and too many fonts. Using too many different fonts – and by extension hard-to-read fonts – can ...
The Top 7 NHL Logos (Not Teams!) According to a nine10 Designer
Hockey is back. Between that and the release of Seattle’s team name and logo last August, we thought we’d get one of our professional designers ...
7 Webby Words You Might Hear At A Website Kick-Off Meeting
Designing a website is a big undertaking for all parties. Like all technology in the 21st century, web design is constantly evolving and expanding. With ...
Designer-y Words You’ll Hear at a Kickoff Meeting for Branding Or Other Design Work
Starting a design project can seem like an overwhelming task at the beginning. There are many factors to consider and a lot of jargon flying ...
How Designers Create Design-y Logos & Websites
Designers get very elitist when it comes to the design craft (I’m sorry peeps, it’s true). Full disclosure, I am a designer — so I ...
Your Logo Is Important, But It Doesn’t Need To Have ALL The Stuff
Alright, so you’ve started a company. Now that you have a GST number, a company name, and all the other fun paperwork that comes with ...
Finding Inspiration: DesignThinkers Conference 2016
Like any other profession, a marketing team is composed of a variety of individuals. Each of us is skilled at something unique, and when put together with ...
How to be an Awesome Client and Get the Results You Want
Designers do a lot to make their clients happy, but there are some things that clients can do to make the design process smoother for ...
Light Table Introduces the ‘Innovative’ Development Environment
As programmers, we are constantly battling for the ever shrinking scraps of space we have to code in. Panels, windows, pop-ups, search bars, status bars… ...
Design + Living: Building Urban Mountains
I recently watchted Bjarke Ingles on TED Talks (video below), where he discussed some of the projects his international architectural firm had been working on. ...
Can DrawSomething Teach You To Be a Better Designer?
If you’ve owned your mobile phone for more than a day or two, you’re probably familiar with the app DrawSomething. It’s basically a digital version ...
Are you guilty of obfuscation?
obfuscate: to make obscure or unclear; to muddle; confuse; bewilder Potential consumers are busy and sophisticated. They are surrounded every day with thousands of messages ...
