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Book Review: Making and Breaking the Grid

December 16th, 2009  /  3 Comments
Book Review: Making and Breaking the Grid

Making and Breaking the Grid, by Timothy Samara, is an analysis of the construction and deconstruction of grid-based designs. Featuring a comprehensive showcase of works in different media and across several decades.

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Book Review: Don’t Make Me Think!

September 22nd, 2009  /  3 Comments
Don't Make Me Think!

What comes to your mind when you think about usability in web design? “Less clicks is better”? “Design to the average user”? “Content is king”? “Users leave your website if it doesn’t load in X seconds”? If you take any of these as a rule for your websites then you need to read this book: Don’t Make Me Think, by Steve Krug.

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Book Review: Sexy Web Design

August 15th, 2009  /  4 Comments
Sexy Web Design

Have you ever wondered if your design process is the right one for your projects? Have you ever thought that maybe there’s a step missing or maybe a specific phase that needs more emphasis on? After doing some research on the subject I found out that Elliot Jay Stocks, a very cool designer from the UK, had recently written a book about this called Sexy Web Design published by Sitepoint, a cool Aussie based book publisher and web & design reference website.

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Book Review: Thinking with Type

July 25th, 2009  /  4 Comments
Thinking with Type

I must admit that typography wasn’t always my favourite field in design. Until a couple years ago fonts and texts were mere supporting actors of the design movie. My mind changed when I finally realized that typography is as important as the shapes, the colours and the styles used. One of the books that helped me get there was Thinking with Type, by Ellen Lupton.

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Book Review: The Brand Gap

July 4th, 2009  /  1 Comment
The Brand Gap

Branding books don’t have to be huge or full of complicated theories, they can be fun, practical and inspiring. The Brand Gap, by Marty Neumeier, is a fast-reading book containing a good amount of definitions – good enough to not make you dizzy – and great visual examples of today’s branding reality.

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