Red is one of the most extreme colors in the rainbow. And it is a common color when it comes to design because of consistent meanings. Red is most commonly used as an accent color (especially common when creating website buttons, sale notifications or signs or colored text) but...
When working with designers and other creative professionals – from the people who build websites to those who put together business cards – it is important to understand and be able to speak the language of type. Typography has a set of jargon that is all its own and...
Named King of Web Standards by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman is one of the leading authorities on web design. If you are serious about being the best web designer you can be, this is the man to follow. Zeldman is first and foremost a web designer and in 1999...
For the last few weeks we’ve been enjoying a free trial of Creative Suite 6, courtesy of the fine folk at Adobe. During this time we’ve realized that the benefits for design can be difficult to see right away, so we’ve produced this brief and informative guide on the key differences and come up...
Lately we’ve been delivering quite a lot of articles wrapped around the field of page layout and design. There’s a very good reason for this. We’re improving steadily, and as such, we’re making a real effort to bring some of that advanced knowledge your way. So without any further...