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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 …

How to pick the best font.

Picking the right font for a project is honestly difficult. Where do you even start? You have dozens or hundreds of fonts installed on your computer… And scrolling through them feels like a never-ending task that usually leads nowhere. So …

Tip #37: Gestalt—Closure

Closure is a little more tricky to explain, but basically, the figure can sometimes relate to the ground in ways that implies other objects. In other words, your mind can connect dots to create new images. The examples below all …