Archive for the ‘thoughts’ Category

Should The Grid Be Visible?

Feb 22

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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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Why Comment?

Feb 3

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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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