Design Blog – eyelearn http://eyelearn.org/ma a look at design for the web & all it entails Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:45:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 26131293 The Adobe Illustrator Story http://eyelearn.org/ma/design-blog/the-adobe-illustrator-story/ http://eyelearn.org/ma/design-blog/the-adobe-illustrator-story/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:45:08 +0000 http://eyelearn.org/ma/?p=3952

How wonderful to find out more about how this (once) wonderful app came to be ;)

]]> http://eyelearn.org/ma/design-blog/the-adobe-illustrator-story/feed/ 2 3952 origins of common UI symbols http://eyelearn.org/ma/design-blog/origins-of-common-ui-symbols/ Fri, 07 Feb 2014 15:18:26 +0000 http://eyelearn.org/ma/?p=3757 origins
What a beautiful find ~ thanks to Cameron Moll’s tweet ;)

]]> 3757 butterick’s practical typography http://eyelearn.org/ma/design-blog/buttericks-practical-typography/ http://eyelearn.org/ma/design-blog/buttericks-practical-typography/#comments Sun, 11 Aug 2013 10:54:59 +0000 http://eyelearn.org/ma/?p=3374 practicalTypography
Just saw this tweet from Matthew Stibbe pointing to a wonderful online book – and more… you should have a look :)

]]> http://eyelearn.org/ma/design-blog/buttericks-practical-typography/feed/ 2 3374 Tiff – a type diff tool… http://eyelearn.org/ma/design-blog/tiff-a-type-diff-tool/ Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:15:30 +0000 http://eyelearn.org/ma/?p=3363

Tiff
A type diff tool that visually contrasts the differences http://www.honeytraveler.com/pharmacy/ between two fonts.

This is lovely new tool to help you see the differences between 2 typefaces - ideal for fine-tuning your font stacks :)

tiif demo]]> 3363 beautiful codepoints http://eyelearn.org/ma/design-blog/beautiful-codepoints/ http://eyelearn.org/ma/design-blog/beautiful-codepoints/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:59:53 +0000 http://eyelearn.org/ma/?p=3032

There was a lot of talk about punctuation marks, specifically quotes, accents and dashes. Jessica Hische announced her little guide “Quotes & Accents” and amongst the links was this lovely site “codepoints”, retweeted by @markboulton, created by @m_strehl. Definitely worth a look - beautifully put together and excellent references ;)

Finding Characters
It’s hard to find one certain character in over 110,000 codepoints. This site aims to make it as easy as possible […]

This website is a private project of Manuel Strehl.

]]> http://eyelearn.org/ma/design-blog/beautiful-codepoints/feed/ 3 3032 A List Apart 5.0 http://eyelearn.org/ma/design-blog/a-list-apart-5-0/ Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:04:57 +0000 http://eyelearn.org/ma/?p=2744 A new design for one of our favourite online publicattions :)
What a transformation – a new design with a fresh approach, make sure to read Jeffrey’s article for an insight into the thinking behind the redesign and to find out what’s new for ALA.

A List Apart 5.0
Jeffrey Zeldman:

A design that departs from our past and a platform on which to build the future. Welcome to the relaunch of A List Apart, for people who make websites.

illustration by Kevin Cornell image © Kevin Cornell 2013

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Launching... flickr.com/photos/adactio… ...and launched: clearleft.com

— Jeremy Keith (@adactio) January 11, 2013

After a long teaching day, catching up on news and tweets - this was a nice surprise: Clearleft launch the redesign of their site. Beautiful :)
You must have a look ~ the masters at work.

clearleft 2013]]> 2629 Custom Types, Jackson Alves http://eyelearn.org/ma/design-blog/custom-types-jackson-alves/ http://eyelearn.org/ma/design-blog/custom-types-jackson-alves/#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:37:55 +0000 http://eyelearn.org/ma/?p=2327 A tweet from @opentype (Ralf Hermann) pointed towards a beautiful video of @jackdzn (Jackson Alves) promoting his workshop. What an amazing type designer… and how wonderful to see a video of his craft!


Make sure to check out his site as well ~ such amazing work.

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hover states ↗

New & interesting examples of movement in interaction design, curated by Chambers Judd

via Frank Chimero:

]]> http://eyelearn.org/ma/design-blog/hover-states/feed/ 3 2269 Guardian tells story of American election http://eyelearn.org/ma/design-blog/guardian-tells-story-of-american-election/ Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:01:30 +0000 http://eyelearn.org/ma/?p=2254 America: Elect! The action-packed journey to US election day in graphic novel form post on guardian

Following a tweet from @cole007 - I was very impressed with this page on The Guardian's website. Though I like this scrolling effect, I have to admit that I have grown tired of it as it is often used in a similar manner, quite predictable. However, when used for story telling as in this case - I do think it works very well :)
What do you think?

Thanks to Cole for sharing the link - I couldn't agree more:

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