I just found Typography for Lawyers and cannot recommend it highly enough, whatever your profession. The website is a straight-forward and accessible guide to typographic considerations. And I suppose I can point a friend to this in the future when he or she asks me what font to use for a résumé. Sorry, Charlie, I [...]
I like to think I'm in fairly good touch with certain regions of the blogosphere—most notably, I'd say, the web design community. By "in touch" I mean reading far too much and not contributing anything significant. Anyway, I try to share some of the more interesting websites I encounter or frequent and I will do [...]
As previously promised while discussing the seven-year birthday of drewd, I have been working on a present for my website (and for you). You should be looking at that present now—I designed a new WordPress theme for my site. Huzzah!
I am proud of this theme for a number of reasons. The first reason is that [...]
I'm going to follow Bob's example and write a Potlatch preview post for my team, DarkHorse.
Here, at last, is the design for our 2008 jersey.
I love love LOVE this Letter Flow animation.
Do you know what else are beautiful? Handmade bleach-stenciled The Hedge hoodies.
Dave Zucker and I have had our eye on this project for nearly half a year but never found the time or inspiration to complete it. Around two weeks ago, we realized that our dearest Claire Storck [...]
At some point yesterday, during the Super Bowl, the new Victoria's Secret ad aired. My response was immediate: "Hey, those text screens look a lot like Law & Order!"
I drew laughter and mockery for not focusing on the more typically recognized, but no more valid, aesthetic qualities of the advertisement (I'm talking about the half-naked [...]
I totally own Google for "Carlos d'Avis" (see results) and for "Drew d'Avis" (see results) and I am even at number one for "Carlos Drew" and "Andrés d'Avis." I am lacking a bit in other regards. The first result for "Andrew d'Avis" is about me but doesn't lead to this website. More significantly, I think, [...]