Archive for February, 2010

Should The Grid Be Visible?

Posted on: February 22nd, 2010 by Paul 7 Comments

Vormgevers exhibition poster in 1968 by Wim Crouwel

A couple of recent designs have left me wondering whether we should be ’showing our workings’ and display the grid at all, whether subtlety like Jina Bolton’s Sushi & Robots or something more elaborate, like Analog (note: press Alt+G).

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Condensed Type #3

Posted on: February 7th, 2010 by Paul No Comments

Welcome to the third Condensed Type; A weekly roundup of typographic links from my dedicated typography account @typographylinks. Enjoy!

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Why Comment?

Posted on: February 3rd, 2010 by Paul 6 Comments

A subject that has created a bit of discussion recently has been to do with comments. With Tim Van Damme removing them completely with the latest design of maxvoltar.com and Sam Brown blogging about the subject just last week I thought I’d reply to a question I was asked last week.

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