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 …
“What the hell is Kerning?” [How-to Guide & Video]
Have you ever read something and thought: What the hell does that say? It happens to me all the time. Usually it’s because the designer picked a terrible font. Other times the designer ignored spacing (and didn’t kern). Musicians create …
Helvetica is good but overused
Helvetica is one of the world’s most popular typefaces; you’ve probably already seen it multiple times today. It’s a Neo-Grotesque typeface, based largely on Akzidenz-Grotesk, my favorite typeface. Characterized by horizontal and vertical ends on all of its strokes and very …
