This semester at UVa, I’ve been teaching a course on Typography and Graphic Design—it has been an awesome experience. I mean, it’s been rough, and I definitely could have done a better job in a lot of ways. But, I’ve …
What is good design?
Most designers think of themselves as one-trick-ponies. Rather, that’s how designers began thinking after the work of the typographer from the 15th and 16th centuries split into two: the printer who knows the technical details of bringing a design into reality, and the designer who decides what needs to be printed.
Building a Landing Page from scratch
So you’ve got a product–or someone hired you to market their product–or your mom wrote a sewing book and she wants you to make a website for it and you can’t say no because she’s your mom. Whatever the reason, …
