“Printers return relatively low profit margins. But the ink, ounce for ounce, is four times the cost of Krug Clos du Mesnil Champagne, which sells for around $425 a bottle. Ink is about the same price as Joy perfume, considered to be one of the more pricey fragrances, at $158 for a 2.5-ounce bottle.”
posted in Photography | Permalink | Comments Off
“Letter spacing is a fine-tuning process that demonstrates a designer’s sensitivity towards typography. Words are made up of what seems to be an infinite number of letter combinations. But not all of these letters fit together very well.” (Thanks Coudal Partners!)
posted in Typography | Permalink | Comments Off
“udging by the design blogs, the chatter at conferences and award ceremonies, and the rhetoric in the magazines, graphic design is a profession where insecurity and doubt are rife. Whenever graphic designers get together, the talk invariably gravitates towards the default topics of restrictive clients, inadequate remuneration and graphic design’s junior status in the contemporary media family… Yet it is one of graphic design’s oldest sources of discontent that causes the most pain, namely its vulnerability to client interference…”
posted in Graphic design | Permalink | Comments Off
A new weblog: “The intersection of business and design, moving beyond form and function, design thinking, transforming experiences, transforming organizations, redesigning business as usual, reframing value, and more.”
posted in Business of design | Permalink | Comments Off
“Curious about what technologies and techniques are going to be popular in the coming months and into the next year? Well, our crack team of editors here at dashes.com (that is to say, me) have assembled a list of up-and-coming trends that you should keep an eye on. Call it vocational education for people building Web 2.0.”
posted in Web development | Permalink | Comments Off
WebVerbix is a free on-line verb conjugator that conjugates verbs in 85 different languages.
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « Sep | Nov » | |||||
| 1 | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
| 30 | 31 | |||||
