Paul Stonier

Seth Godin: Typography and Cultural Expectations

Paul Stonier — Thu, 16 May 2013 09:18:52 +0000

Seth Godin: Typography and Cultural Expectations

Typography in your work isn’t for you. It doesn’t matter if you like it. It doesn’t matter if the committee likes it. After legibility, all that matters is what the recipient is reminded of. (And yes, it’s fine if the typography reminds your viewer of nothing at all, at least if your goal is to create the awe of the totally new).

If you use the standard Microsoft font in your Powerpoint presentation, it might be common, but it won’t be powerful. If you use Comic Sans, it won’t be common, but it won’t be powerful either.

It’s a bit like wearing a dark blue suit to a meeting with a banker. You can wear something else, sure, but make sure you want it to be noticed, because it will be.

via Seth’s Blog: Remind you of anything? Simple typography for non-professionals

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David A. Smith’s Design of John Mayer’s Born & Raised Album Cover

Paul Stonier — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:06:43 +0000

David A. Smith’s Design of John Mayer’s Born & Raised Album Cover

David A. Smith is a traditional sign-writer/designer specialising in high-quality ornamental hand-crafted reverse glass signs and decorative silvered and gilded mirrors. David recently produced a wonderful turn-of-the-century, trade-card styled album cover for popular American singer/songwriter John Mayer.

This is such an astounding piece of work. The level of craftsmanship and detail that went into this album is impossible for me to wrap my head around. This is an album I may just have to buy in order to keep this little piece of history.

Thanks for Ryan McGovern of Design Chat for the tip.

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Jason Santa Maria on Typography at An Event Apart 2013

Paul Stonier — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:00:45 +0000

Jason Santa Maria on Typography at An Event Apart 2013

Jason Santa Maria gives us a glimpse into the thoughts, challenges and considerations a type nerd (or in his words, a font geek). He shows the audience why we make the decisions we do and tells it quite well. For anyone interesting in learning typography, I highly recommend watching this.

Jason Santa Maria has gained a reputation for being one of the early adopters of web typography and embracing the flexibility of web design to take on principles from web design. Like in his talk at SVA, The Influence of Print Design on Web Design.

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The Art of Web Design: PBS Off Book

Paul Stonier — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:50:14 +0000

The Art of Web Design: PBS Off Book

Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, and Whitney Hess do a great job of covering the history of Web Design and where we are today. They cover it from when it simply existing for scientists to share research to Responsive Web Design for the ever-changing set of devices that we use to access web content.

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Troels Nørlem of Designit: On Mobile

Paul Stonier — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:15:47 +0000

Troels Nørlem of Designit: On Mobile

2012/02 Troels Nørlem from CreativeMornings/Aarhus on Vimeo.

Troels Nørlem of Designit shares his experience with mobile app design at the inaugural CreativeMornings/Aarhus.

I absolutely love the term that Troels uses to describe how people use mobile web experiences. He describes it as “service snacking”. He elaborates with the analogy of watching a movie with a bowl of popcorn, just grabbing piece after piece at a time. If you think about how you use for smartphone, this is an excellent description.

Also, he adds…

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”

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Ben Chestnut of MailChimp on CreativeMornings in Atlanta

Paul Stonier — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:29:51 +0000

Ben Chestnut of MailChimp on CreativeMornings in Atlanta

2011/12 Creative Mornings with Ben Chestnut from CreativeMornings/Atlanta on Vimeo.

CEO of MailChimp, Ben Chestnut, talks about focusing on entropy in order to build to keep the money machine working.

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Danny Trinh: Designer at Path

Paul Stonier — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:04:18 +0000

Danny Trinh: Designer at Path

Danny Trinh, Designer at Path, Interviewed at TechCrunch

Danny Trinh has a unique path to getting to where he is, but he does a great job of representing designers in the SF tech startup community. In this video, he covers how he got where he is, the importance of surrounding yourself with great people and tells it in a very interesting way.

I love his response to Semil Shah’s question of what’s more important; functionality or aesthetics?

He says

Good design is as little design as possible…The most important thing is the product itself. What does it say to the user?…Simplifying as much as possible and editting.

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/26/tctv-in-the-studio-with-danny-trinh-paths-21-year-old-product-designer/

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Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design by Aarron Walter

Paul Stonier — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:00:26 +0000

Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design by Aarron Walter

Aarron Walter covers not only how users benefit from bringing emotion into design, but also the business case.

Source: Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design

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Jonathan Hoefler at Pivot AIGA Conference

Paul Stonier — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:15:57 +0000

Jonathan Hoefler at Pivot AIGA Conference

Jonathan Hoefler is always incredibly articulate about his relationship to letters and fonts. In this case, he does an entertaining and detailed job of spelling out the challenges, concerns and considerations a type designer faces when creating fonts for the web.

via Frank Chimero.

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A to Z Archipelago Books: by Agra Satria

Paul Stonier — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:46:00 +0000

A to Z Archipelago Books: by Agra Satria

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