image: Marion DossRecently I gave a talk for CHP Consulting with a colleague, Martyn Davis on: “Brand New – The psychology of branding and logo design”. This article was written to complement that talk and shall look a little deeper into the history of branding and further explain how and why we use branding the way we do.
image: moellerstWrote this article for CHP Consulting that featured on World Leasing news. Posting up on here as well.
The World Wide Web started its life as a series of simple, text-based, read-only homepages whose sole purpose was to act as a digital business card and brochure. From this, Web 2.0 evolved, and this dynamic, interactive approach now informs our online life….
Our industry is over 20 years old now. Mosiac, the first web browser was release in 1993 followed by Opera in ’94 and Internet Explorer in ’95. Mostly we were reduced to viewing text files and eXcel like tables for our web pages. Linking to separate pages/documents was like a revolution in the HTML world [...]
It’s on info graphics, maps, signage and even those little instructional maps you get with your Kinder Surprise. Information design is everywhere but if done correctly you wouldn’t even notice it. And that’s the point as its purpose is to convey a message. But you should never be aware that it has been ‘designed’.
Once upon a time web design / interface design was simply the act of taking a portrait designed brochure and turning it on its side to create a landscape layout with buttons stuck on to make it cool and new media. There wasn’t a convention of what constituted good or bad web layout, semantic mark [...]
What I was trying to figure out is how can you check if a table (or a div) that has a parent div with CSS overflow:auto applied to it and has started to horizontally scroll with JavaScript/jQuery. Seems that the scroll() API in jQuery only checks if the event has been triggered and not if [...]
I stumbled across a really cool project by JavaScript Remy Sharp. The MIT License project is a public, open source permanent resource for the community. It allows you to create a single resource that would always be up to date and would always have your MIT details online. I created my own, which is very simple [...]
I’ve seen some amazing JS & HTML5 experiments but this one has blown me away – the original Command and Conquer.
Created and completed in a month by Aditya Ravi Shankar. Check it out on github as its an incredibly ambiguous project.
Recently read a thought provoking article called “The effects of themed Lipsum on design” by Andrew Fox where he wrote that Loren Ipsum had a negative impact on design and we as designers should demand most of the content upfront…