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What's Your Comic About?Communicating Complex Ideas With Comics

From The Smashing Editorial
March 15th, 2013
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Comics are known to be one of the most powerful communication tools, and are a unique way to communicate — using both image and text to effectively demonstrate time, function, and emotion. Today’s article is an excerpt from Kevin Cheng’s “See What I Mean” — a book that walks you step ...

The Power Of TypographyCreating Exciting And Unusual Visual Hierarchies

From C. Knight, J. Glaser
February 26th, 2013
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Layout, for both print and screen, is one of the most important aspects of graphic design. Designs that extend across multiple pages or screens, whether containing large or small amounts of type, must be carefully controlled in a way that is enticing and is easy for all to access. Careful control ...

Design ProcessTypography Carved In Stone

From Anne Brady
September 20th, 2012
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Every name here is a tragic story of loss and heartbreak. The Garda Memorial Garden, or Gairdín Cuimhneacháin an Gharda Síochána, is located in the heart of Dublin city. This memorial is a contemplative garden with large stone plinths and a lot of names and numbers. The list of names, this ...

CreativityChanging Perspective: A New Look At Old Problems

From Stuart Silverstein
September 3rd, 2012
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There is an old story of blind men and an elephant. The blind men all meet and are asked to describe the elephant. One says that an elephant is long and skinny like a snake. The other says that the first doesn’t know what he is talking about and says ...

A Matter of AestheticsThe Designer Will Make It Pretty

From Jason Gross
August 24th, 2012
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I am sure that my day job as a designer has a lot of similarities to that of the entire Smashing community. I create wireframes, mockups and concepts. I craft HTML and CSS using methods that I hope are fluid and adaptive. At the same time, my coworkers and I ...

Innovative and Memorable DesignsCreating A Lasting Impression

From C. Knight, J. Glaser
August 14th, 2012
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We can all agree that the work we do should inform, be appropriate to the client and their audience, and, of course, look good. But there’s a bonus third attribute worth aiming for—creating a lasting impression. Visual memory is fascinating; we use it often without realizing. If for example you ask ...

Why Doodling Is Important“I Draw Pictures All Day”

From Alma Hoffmann
August 3rd, 2012
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“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 ...

The Process of Creativity

From Jason Gross
December 6th, 2011
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The creative attribute has always been a highly debated and researched component of the human psyche. The “designer” job title seems to be one that calls to the more creative minded among us and according to some, requires the highest level of creative processing. This idea does lend itself to ...

The Selfless Designer

From Rick Monro
August 10th, 2011
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Becoming an effective designer requires embracing universal design principles and best practices. Over the years, I have come to see that reaching maturity as a designer is a continual process of reassessment and letting go of potentially damaging baggage. This can include jettisoning your ego and dumping your assumptions, prejudices and ...

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