Archive for June, 2009

Book Review: Really Good Logos Explained

Really Good Logos explained

Last month, I decided to start building my personal design library by purchasing one design related book a month. Why only one? Simple answer, design books can be quite pricey. Anyways, I’m going to try and read each book within the month and before I purchase a new one. If that works out, I’ll give my thoughts here.
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Sweet Dreams

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A wonderful stop motion video by Kirsten Lepore

Faith on FormFiftyFive

York University/Sheridan College Department of Design

I almost did a cartwheel (except that I can’t do cartwheels) when I saw that the work of Paul Sych was featured on FormFiftyFive. For those of you who don’t know, Paul Sych is a professor at the York University / Sheridan College Design program in Toronto, Ontario. The above image is a poster that he beautifully designed for the department.

I haven’t had him as a prof yet, perhaps this year.

Twitter News Ticker for WordPress

Over the last few years, Twitter has become a very popular marketing tool and more and more people are integrating their Twitter updates onto sites outside of Twitter. This tutorial will teach you how to display up to 20 of your latest Twitter updates in a fading news ticker on your WordPress blog. This is an elegant alternative to using a Twitter Badge and takes up little room on your site.

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