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Useful Talks And Videos From Web Design Conferences

Posted by Smashing Editorial on November 9, 2012 · Comments Off

As a Web professional, you can get great inspiration from a good conference session. While conferences may not bring value to all industries, the Web industry is stacked high with inspirational experts and quiet little geniuses beavering away from small home offices. A good Web conference shines a light on these clever souls and promotes professional growth and [...]

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Content: A Blessing, A Bubble, A Burden // Content Strategy

Posted by Christopher Butler on August 7, 2012 · Comments Off

Everyone is talking about content. Googling the phrase “content strategy” retrieves almost 50 million results — a clear indicator that interest in content is very much in the zeitgeist. By the time you read this, I expect that number will have grown even higher. But I also suspect that the substance of the talk would be quite different if content were [...]

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“I Draw Pictures All Day” // Why Doodling Is Important

Posted by Alma Hoffmann on August 3, 2012 · Comments Off

“So, you do nothing all day.” That’s how many people would respond to someone who says they spend the day with a pen or pencil in their hand. It’s often considered an empty practice, a waste of time. They’re seen as an empty mind puttering along with the busy work of scribbling. But for us designers and artists, drawing pictures all day is integral to [...]

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Why Subtle Typographic Choices Make All The Difference

Posted by Carolyn Knight, Jessica Glaser on June 5, 2012 · Comments Off

A strong understanding of how designers control meaning is essential for anyone interested in graphic design or typography. In a previous article, we discussed how sophisticated and complex visual and verbal language can get, examining instances that show how type can be used to effectively take control of meaning. In this article, we’ll look at the reasons [...]

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Smashing Daily #7: Wheels, Print And Bingo

Posted by Vasilis van Gemert on May 23, 2012 · Comments Off

In this edition of The Smashing Daily, you will find an answer to the question of why reinventing the wheel is a good thing, why you should make a mobile friendly website first, how to make that website, how to serve a print style sheet and you’ll get an excellent lesson in out-of-the-box thinking and innovation. Doesn’t that sound interesting? There’s [...]

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Smashing Daily #7: Wheels, Print And Bingo

Posted by Vasilis van Gemert on May 23, 2012 · Comments Off

Editor’s Note: This post is the seventh in the new Smashing Daily series on Smashing Magazine, where we highlight items to help you stay on the top of what’s going on in the Web industry. Vasilis van Gemert will carefully pick the most interesting discussions, tools, techniques and articles that have been published recently and present them in a nice [...]

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Smashing Daily #1: Mobile Device Lab, Browsers and Animated GIFs

Posted by Smashing Editorial on May 15, 2012 · Comments Off

Editor’s Note: This post is the first in the new Smashing Daily series on Smashing Magazine, where we highlight items to help you stay on the top of what’s going on in the industry. Vasilis van Gemert will carefully pick the most interesting discussions, tools, techniques and articles that were published recently and present them in a nice compact overview. [...]

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When Typography Speaks Louder Than Words

Posted by Carolyn Knight, Jessica Glaser on April 13, 2012 · Comments Off

Clever graphic designers love to use typography to explore the interaction between the look of type and what type actually says. In communicating a message, a balance has to be achieved between the visual and the verbal aspects of a design. Sometimes, however, designers explore the visual aspect of type to a much greater extent than the verbal. In these cases, [...]

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Weird And Wonderful, Yet Still Illegible

Posted by Alastair Johnston on March 21, 2012 · Comments Off

First a question (or perhaps a Freudian jab at your subconscious): What does this shape represent? Could it be a trowel, a duck, an ornamental motif, or a seed-pod? I know, Aladdin’s Lamp! What if I told you it was an alphabetic character? What alphabet would you assign to it? Cham? Telugu? Perhaps it has the cursive quality of South Asian letterforms, created [...]

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Japanese, A Beautifully Complex Writing System

Posted by Shoko Mugikura on March 5, 2012 · Comments Off

As a Japanese person living in Europe, I’m sometimes asked: “Japanese is a difficult language, isn’t it?” Those asking are often surprised when my answer is a simple: “No, actually, it’s not.” While it is true (at least to many Westerners) that Japanese is an exotic language, when compared to learning other European languages, it may seem [...]

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