The personal website of Paul Randall
The personal website of Paul Randall
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).
filed under design, typography
Welcome to the third Condensed Type; A weekly roundup of typographic links from my dedicated typography account @typographylinks. Enjoy!
filed under design, typography
Welcome to the second Condensed Type; A weekly roundup of typographic links from my dedicated typography account @typographylinks.
filed under design, typography
This is going to be a weekly round-up of links tweeting from my dedicated typography account @typographylinks.
filed under competition, design, websites
Thanks to all submissions, but the two winners have now been chosen (See comments)
I have some very exclusive Dribbble invites – 2 to be exact.
If you haven’t heard of it before, Dribbble is a site which allows you to upload 400×300px previews of your design work. I have been hugely impressed with it so far, and invites are very elusive.
If you would like the opportunity of winning a Dribbble invite, please leave a comment (with an email address and website/twitter account) below, and later on I will choose the lucky two and contact them directly.
Merry Christmas everybody! After a short delay due to a holiday, the December wallpaper is now live. The wallpaper is based on a present, complete with wrapping paper, ribbon and tag.
The tiling pattern is actually based on the Koch Snowflake. It’s mathematical basis allows it to be tiled in a number of ways, which can be seen on this Wolfram Alpha page.
I’m really excited with the possibilities 2010 brings, so expect more wallpapers, blogs and other goodies still in the pipeline.
Thanks for reading, I appreciate all the comments and tweets and wish you all a Merry Christmas.
I hope you like the wallpaper. If you have any feedback or messages, please do leave a comment below.
After becoming increasingly interested in typography, I felt I needed a book that set out the fundamentals. After doing some research, I found Thinking with Type: A critical guide for designers, writers, editors and students.
This book is divided into three main sections, Letter, Text and Grid. Starting off with a little history lesson on letterforms, leading into the anatomy of type with great examples along the way. It then goes into more detail, covering spacing and alignment, followed by layouts and grids.
After a brief, one month absence the monthly wallpaper is back!
The November 2009 wallpaper is very minimalist, based on a simplistic pixel grid, inspired by the recently launched cleartypemedia.com. The font is the fantastic Vegur (Extra Light) Don’t worry if this isn’t your cup of tea—expect a festive theme for December!.
I hope you like the wallpaper. If you have any feedback or messages, please do leave a comment below.
filed under coding
Whenever I start a new project, I seem to be repeating myself when it comes to adding, and styling basic content: Headers, Lists and Tables etc.
So I decided to create a ‘Kitchen Sink’ of markup and basic styling, using some content from the great HTML-Ipsum.com plus a few extra bits.
filed under design
This is a topic I recently tweeted about, and one I think we forget about sometimes:
As designers, our job is to make our work invisible. Good design just looks ‘right’ without being obvious to the user. Without fuss.
