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FF DIN

I just love FF DIN, a very use­ful type­face by (Dutch­man) Albert-Jan Pool. A remake of the ear­lier DIN 1451, For years Engschrift and Mit­telschrift which was used in our engrav­ing indus­try. Nowa­days FF DIN is found in sig­nage & wayfind­ing projects around the world. Visit the min­isite FF DIN.

The Wayfind­ing book

I just ordered the wayfind­ing book by David Gib­son, a com­plete guide into infor­ma­tion design for pub­lic places. When I receive my copy I will review the book here.
See here for the full intro­duc­tion of The Wayfind­ing Book.

Logo Designer Blog

Busy man Jacob Cass released another blog, Logo Designer Blog, a blog about logo design, inspi­ra­tion, tips & resources. With many con­trib­u­tors in this field of experise I believe this will be another great logo design web­site. Btw ordered the dot-grid-book, read here for more infor­ma­tion. Visit Logo Designer Blog.

Design Dosage

Design Dosage is a design inspi­ra­tion gallery that fea­tures one qual­ity post per day. Each day of the week has a set assigned cat­e­gory. — Icon Mon­day, — Typog­ra­phy Tues­daym — Wall­pa­per Wednes­day, — Illus­tra­tion Thurs­day, — Logo Fri­day, — CSS Sat­ur­day, — Print Sun­day. See for more daily inspi­ra­tion Design Dosage.

New Veer Marketplace

Low-priced images for the Veer com­mu­nity, pro­duced by the Veer com­mu­nity. With over 100,000 images Veer is to release a new this mar­ket­place with pho­tos start­ing at $1,- Visit the mar­ket­place from Veer here for more information.

Geor­gia on my mind

Mathew Carter’s grace­ful serif type­face Geor­gia is re-discovered by Web Design­ers. Fea­tured at inspi­ra­tionbit are 32 web sites that rely heav­ily on Geor­gia to dis­play their content.

Visit this great show­case of usage Geor­gia web­sites at inspi­ra­tionbit.

Type Chart

Type­chart lets you flip through, pre­view and com­pare web typog­ra­phy while retriev­ing the CSS.

Finally a great web­site about the dif­fer­ence between Win­dows (Clear) Type & Mac Type. See­ing the sam­ples I can­not believe I have been stuck with Win­dows for so many years. All exam­ples can be used in your own CSS Style Sheet. Check the web­site Type­Chart for more infor­ma­tion, via iLovety­pog­ra­phy.

Icon Dock

Icon­Dock is brought to you by N.Design Stu­dio. They know your time is valu­able, that is why they offer stock icons in vec­tor and pixel for­mat that you can quickly snap in your projects to speed up the development.

Visit Icon­Dock or visit the blog for more information.

Under­con­sid­er­a­tion now @twitter

The design firm Under­con­sid­er­a­tion is now also on twit­ter, fol­low the moves by Bry­ony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit.
See the announce­ment here and fol­low at twit­ter.

20 Cor­po­rate Brand Logo Evolution

Have you ever won­der how the first Apple logo looks in 30 years back? Did you know Volk­swa­gen was Hitler’s idea? Or how the IBM logo changes over the time? Or where the Mercedes-Benz Brand And The Three-Pointed Star logo came from? Check this post at Inst­ant­shift.

Min­i­mal design web­sites showcase

A web­site ded­i­cated to min­i­mal designs, although this web­site if fairly new already sev­eral great min­i­mal designs have been added. Sub­mit­ted Design­Work­Plan recently.
Check the min­i­mal design show­case.

Wire­frames

This is the open­ing of Wire­frames Mag­a­zine, in which I invite you to take part. The essence behind this exper­i­ment is the sim­ple idea that we as infor­ma­tion archi­tects, inter­ac­tion design­ers, and user expe­ri­ence pro­fes­sion­als all cre­ate design doc­u­men­ta­tion in one form or another which makes up a large part of our typ­i­cal work day.
Visit Wire­frames.

Cre­ative Fluff

Cre­ative Fluff is an eclec­tic group of young design­ers, artists, writ­ers, and crit­ics. It is not only our goal, but our plea­sure to bring you the lat­est, old­est, and most inter­est­ing news from all realms of cre­ative art and design

PDF Book: Design­ing for the web

A Prac­ti­cal Guide to Design­ing for the Web aims to teach you tech­niques for design­ing your web­site using the prin­ci­ples of graphic design by Mark Boul­ton. This is a great PDF book­let and will teach every­thing from start to fin­ish, filled with many tips and insights from Mark Boul­ton. See more at the web­site Five Sim­ple Steps, read here for a full review.

The Cri­sis of Credit Visualized

The goal of giv­ing form to a com­plex sit­u­a­tion like the credit cri­sis is to quickly sup­ply the essence of the sit­u­a­tion to those unfa­mil­iar and unini­ti­ated. Cre­ated by Jonathan Jarvis, Los Ange­les based designer.
To see the video see the web­site cri­sisof­credit, via font­feed.

Exam­ples of pre­sent­ing work/projects

YouTheDesigner pub­lished a great arti­cle with exam­ples on how to present your work/projects. It will give you an insight on how to shoot a photo and make your work attrac­tive for a port­fo­lio. Visit the arti­cle here.

Dutch Cor­po­rate Iden­tity Price 2009

Dutch foun­da­tion Grafis­che Cul­tu­ursticht­ing is orga­niz­ing a national con­test for best cor­po­rate iden­tity. Until the first of March you can send in mate­ri­als. See here for the full details (Dutch only), via FontShop.

AIGA: Air Force One Graphic History

What is the story behind the graphic design of Air Force One? Pat­ton inves­ti­gates the visual iden­tity of the “fly­ing White House.” Fea­tured on AIGA.

Good Design in ten commandments.

As good design can­not be mea­sured in a finite way he set about express­ing the ten most impor­tant cri­te­ria for what he con­sid­ered was good design.

Visit the good design in ten com­mand­ments here, via design­notes.

Enjoy read­ing!

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