Design Means Business / Business Means Design

With The Ignite Series¹ “Snuff your competition with style” workshop, less than a month away, I find myself deeply engrossed in exploring the exciting and evolving relationship between design and the economy.

What is graphic design?

If you’ve spent any amount of time in the graphic design industry you’ve most likely been asked this common question: What is graphic design? So it came as no surprise to me when I discovered that it is the number one question people type into search engines containing the keyword “graphic design”.

This week’s design blog favorites

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Typography Keyboard Layout: Download Now!
Smashing Editorial, Smashing Magazine | April 2, 2009
The main idea was to provide the web design community with a handy tool that would let designers enter characters that are usually unavailable on a keyboard easier and quicker. If you already tried to enter such words like naïve [...]

Serif vs Sans Serif

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A client of mine insists on using a sans serif font for all his business communications. Why does this rub me the wrong way? Because I was taught that serif fonts are easier to read and more legible particularly for large bodies of copy. As I recall, this is due to [...]