Design
Designing with a Grid
Recent talk on the web about typography and the grid inspired me to pick up some books and do some reading and learning so I could expand my knowledge and produce more mature websites.
I wanted to try and give some insight on how I created Version Four using a grid, and how I went from wireframes […]
- Posted On: 20th May 2007
- Posted At: 4:08pm
- Category: Design
- Tags: design, download, grid, psd, tutorial, version four, vertical rhythm
- Comments: 10 Comments
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Analysing Inman’s Compost Heap
Shaun Inman’s site is no longer .com/plete, it seems to have decomposed over night, and is now nothing but .com/post. Though the main attraction seems to be the ageing algorithms that mean content will slowly change colour over time the real thing that has interested me is the design and typography.
“whoa, this is the best typography […]
- Posted On: 20th October 2006
- Posted At: 7:29pm
- Category: Design
- Tags: com/post, design, grid, shaun inman, vertical rhythm, visual hierarchy
- Comments: 3 Comments
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Learning Traditional Design
For a long time now, I have called myself a web designer. Even this little web site which is for my freelance gig: Critical Web Design makes claims that I am a designer. In all honesty when it comes down to it, this claim to be a designer is a false one, sure I have […]
- Posted On: 8th October 2006
- Posted At: 3:28pm
- Category: Design
- Tags: blogs, books, design, learning, links
- Comments: 4 Comments
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Designing blog.critical V3
For my first part of my reboot write up I thought I would show some of the designs that didn’t see the light of day, and the route I took to get from the original idea to the final design which you see here now. Unfortunately this only really applies for the home page, a […]
- Posted On: 7th May 2006
- Posted At: 4:49pm
- Category: Design
- Tags: design, process, reboot, screenshots, site
- Comments: 7 Comments
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