A St. Louis design group announced a special gathering at a local design studio for a program entitled, “Educational Night: The Business of Design.” The evening’s program was hosted by a local design studio that is making leaps and bounds in the local and national scene, so it didn’t take long for the reservations to pour in until there were no more spaces to be had
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Atomicdust: explaining design process
Websites are incredibly versatile as a medium, to be used to display information and other content, and if well designed they can do this in an enjoyable way that’s easy for the reader to digest. This can be done through combining a site persona with an ongoing narrative, consistent throughout, which will all come together to create a ‘story’ through which you can deliver relevant content.
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Telling stories with your designs
Despite the consumer-focused nature of the WordPress content management software, an increasing number of larger organizations and even businesses are adopting WordPress to manage their site’s content — especially corporate blogs and customer outreach programs that take advantage of social media and interaction humanize a company’s brand. These larger organizations aren’t content to let their backend user interface be branded using WordPress logos and design cues; instead, they prefer to customize the software and ensure that all of their employees know that they’re working within the company’s structure and purview. It might sound complicated, but customizing the WordPress interface is actually pretty easy, especially when customizing the initial login screen that brings users to the traditional Dashboard homepage
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Customizing the WordPress login page for consistent branding
The May edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins, grid tools, CSS tools, WordPress resources, productivity and business tools, responsive design resources, and some really great new fonts. Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a lot of designers and developers out there. As always, if we’ve missed something you think should have been included, please let us know in the comments.
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What’s new for designers, May 2012
The results of an assignment at the Carnegie Mellon School of Design in Pittsburgh. Pop-up Alphabet in Univers 65 Bold from CMU Design on Vimeo.
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Pop-up Alphabet in Univers 65 Bold
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter , however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week.
When I first saw a web site designer who had posted a laundry list of prices on his site, I gasped in horror. It created some buzz in the design circles in which I traveled.
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Posting a price list on your web site: does it work or fail?
In a couple of days, we will publish the first non-porchez typeface family. When Typofonderie was launched back in the nineties, the objective was simply to distribute directly its founder’s typefaces.
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Typeface designer to come
Sebastian Nagel (*1981) studied graphic design at the University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg in Austria and is currently working as graphic and type designer.
Responsive design has some definite buzz of late, and with good reason. It promises to simplify the increasingly complex task of adapting websites for the countless new devices multiplying by the minute. By considering a few common variables like screen size, adapting a site to its visitors’ particular needs becomes a matter of some clever CSS planning and Javascript rather than the detailed design of numerous, parallel sites
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A (not so) jilted English professor’s guide to creative web design
