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Branding the Cville Design Week

Everyone has little crazy ideas. Sometimes they’re crazy enough to forget, and sometimes they’re crazy enough… they just might work. I’ve launched a tiny design festival in my town of Charlottesville, Virginia. It took place in mid-November and it was …

4 Typographic Styles in 15 minutes

This week, rather than going over some high-level concept or very specific tool (like Kerning) I’m going to show you how to do make 4 very specific things. These styles are very in right now. Here are the styles you’ll …

44—You don’t need a personal logo.

Don’t worry. You don’t need a personal logo. Why not? Because your name is unique enough. Do I have a logo? Hell no. I don’t even think about it. Really. If you went through my notebooks, the most recent “Lucas …

Tip #20: It’s all about color and type

Every mobile platform has its own style guide with preferred ways to create common user interface elements, so how do you stand out? The two main ways: Color and type. A millions apps and websites use blue and green and …