Posted by Abbey Conlon on Oct 22, 2008
While reading Ad Age- I came across an interesting article on poorly designed ballots in this year’s election. The U.S. Election Assistance Commission published guidelines and called upon graphic designers for “best practices”.
check out this article
Posted by Abbey Conlon on Oct 3, 2008
On our lunch break, Megan Zang and myself attended a flea market at St Paul’s here in town. I stumbled upon a doodle pro magnet for only 50 cents. I think thats my great find of the day. Considering I spent over $5 last week at target on the same thing (but in blue). That magnet resides [...]
Posted by Abbey Conlon on Sep 29, 2008
okay … judge a book by its cover
http://www.judgeby.com/
Posted by Abbey Conlon on Sep 24, 2008
Michael Moore’s new film is premiering live and for free at slackeruprising.com.
Slacker Uprising is a movie of Michael Moore’s tour of colleges in battleground states during the 2004 election, with a goal to encourage 18-29 year olds to vote, and the response it received. The film is a re-edited version of Captain Mike Across [...]
Posted by Abbey Conlon on Sep 23, 2008
Here is a compiled list of sites that use traditional artistic techniques in modern web design. Its nice to see some organic layouts and unique effects.
Best Part of this list is my alma mater is featured in the 6th row- really enjoy the design of the site.
Posted by Abbey Conlon on Sep 17, 2008
Let’s put a stop to the most over used font in the world.
Papyrus.
It is used everywhere for everything. If it is ethnic- lets use papyrus. if its health and beauty- lets use papyrus. if its dated- lets use papyrus. if it has to do with nature- lets use papyrus. you get my point.
I’m begging you- [...]
Posted by Abbey Conlon on Sep 16, 2008
I rarely miss the 411 or the hot new jams on celebrity news and rumors. I was pumped to find on mostinspired.com- websites of the most powerful celebrities. You won’t find out who Lindsay Lohan was making out with last night or what Angelina’s baby count is at but you will see some pretty cool layouts and flash promoting your [...]
Posted by Abbey Conlon on Sep 15, 2008
Hey guys I just came across a cool photoshop tutorial on using futuristic designs. This may help some of you or at least inspire you when designing for some of our electronics, software, and gaming clients.
http://psdtuts.com/inspiration/inspiration-futuristic-graphic-user-interface-design/#more-268