I just wrapped up designing a complex, 48-page program for the Virginia Festival of the Book. It’s not the first time I’ve created a document like this, but this time I did something a little different. I catalogued my entire …
7 Essential Typographic Layout Systems
eBook by Lucas Czarnecki Being a designer means solving problems. Your tools to do this include color, type, graphics, images, motion, medium, and layout. Layout, though, often feels like a forgotten step-child. You see the same ones over and over. …
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 …
