Entries by Justin

Decorative Bodoni

When I first saw this I knew I had to get one of these… The Decorative Bodoni alphabet was produced by Nigel Bents, Paul Oakley and Jonny Holmes at Chelsea College of Art & Design. The original Bodini Poster typeface was  laser cut out of 3mm plywood by Cut Laser Cut and mounted on type-high blocks in the college workshop. […]

Godfather of Helvetica, Mike Parker Dies at 84

When we hear Helvetica, the normal person might associate it with the standard Grotesque font that is packaged with every Windows or Mac OS (among hundreds of applications). When a typographer hears Helvetica, they think of one of, if not the most technically sound type system designed in the past century. Originally designed in 1957 for the Haas […]

Diablo III Fan Art Contest

Whenever they have a design contest on deviantart.com, you know you are going to see some sick stuff. And with the Diablo III Fan Art Contest, I’m postitive that we’re going to see creatively creepy stuff, especially for a 2 night trip to Blizzard HQ in Irvine, CA to meet the artists and developers of Diablo […]

Good Practice: Regular Backups!

So, if you didn’t notice, good; but our site was down for a couple days. We lost a bunch of portfolio and blog posts which really sucks. This is a reminder to myself and all of the other people that forget to do regular backups of their websites when the work is really busy. Back […]

Urine Powered Generator

I thought this was an amazing invention when I first saw this, imagine how many people this can benefit around he world, yes a bit strange, but very useful… Four African girls have created a generator that produces electricity for six hours using a single liter of urine as fuel. They need a Kickstarter page for this, I’d donate…

Foldy960 Responsive Grids

I ran across these Foldy960 Grids the other week while compiling data for the Microsoft Website Redesign post and found these quite useful in helping me understand the workings of Responsive Design from a couple of innovators… It’s a little kit and some extra classes to get you going on making your 960.gs design responsive.