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The Best of Show

No matter how small or large your ego is, it’s always nice to see your work recognized by your peers. And + more

Question, Answered.

Why is it important to have a mobile friendly website, you ask? According to Nielsen, “Nearly half of smartphone owners + more

Internet Time Machine

If you’re up for a deep-drive today, Wayback Machine has you afternoon planned out for you. As an internet archive, + more

Between the Digital and the Physical

“Like a lot of people, I split my time now between the digital world and the physical one. My head’s + more

Flower Striptease

It’s mid-March and already the spring-time lovelies are peeking their heads out of the ground to brighten up the Pacific + more

Type Matters

Helvetica has always had a sense of purpose. While it’s one of several great fonts at every designer’s disposal, it + more

Brooks in Boise

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of presenting a lecture at Boise’s fourth annual Modern Masters series, sponsored by Preservation Idaho and Idaho + more

View-Master 2.0

Whether you are a tech enthusiast or a person born any time after 1940, you will appreciate this new partnership: + more

Misspellings

Anyone who has ever worked with me knows that I am infamous for misspelling a word in a design project. + more

CK, Marty. Marty, CK.

One of my favorite design authors is Marty Neumeier. I first became aware of his work in the 1990s when he + more

Movie Night

The creative field can be exhausting at times, with long hours spent on everything from painstaking detail and pixel-pushing to grand, yearlong + more

One of Our Own

Sadly, we lost an important member of our design community a couple of weeks ago: Monte Mindt, most recently creative director + more

Changing Minds, One Person at a Time

It turns out that carefully planned, creatively developed, and strategically executed image campaigns actually work. Who’d a-thunk it? (Why, yes—that’s helveticka’s handiwork + more

The Retro Look Never Gets Old

When Pressworks asked us to help them with their letterpress promotion, we were delighted. For years, I’ve been wanting to + more

For Type Geeks Only

Hey, it turns out that Helvetica isn’t the only font with an interesting story. (Who knew?) The New York Public + more

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