dannygarcia:

For those of us that didn’t go to design school and never learned what this meant.

No, don’t look at it. It’s a curse, I tell you. Ever since I learned what good kerning is I can’t stop noticing bad kerning everywhere!

Shift-Cmd-Cover →

People would ask, So what do you do for a living, and I’d reply, I’m a book designer, actually, and they’d nod and squint a little and say something like, So … that’s the covers?

aatw:

Jordan Crane’s amazing cover for Michael Chabon’s Maps and Legends

That is absolutely beautiful.

Some of Esquire’s classic covers, from the days when magazines were big enough to hold some great art on the front.

FontStruct →

This is so awesome: a Web app that lets you build your own fonts. It’s like Kuler for fontheads. I love it.

Via angad, via joelaz.

Scanned Images, Engravings and Pictures From Old Books →

This site is genius.

Tiled Backgrounds Designer →

Sweet. (via kiyo, via joelaz)

livejamie:

Everybody hurry and add Andy Gilmore to your feed readers. We need to get this kid on Tumblr, stat.

Wow. That stuff’s amazing.

Debris →

A manifesto of sorts about removing junk from blogs. Worth a read.

The State of the Web - Summer 2008 →

A beautiful and brilliant on what’s happening on the Internet these days. And set in a nice font! (via livejamie)

"Design is first and foremost about pleasure, a point that is easy to lose sight of in the corporate environment."

Mandy Brown

Free Hi Resolution Wood Textures →

While working on a poster for an event, I needed a nice woodgrain texture for the background. Here’s a bunch of free ones.

The hardest thing I’ve had to do for my internship so far is by far the most mundane — designing an order form. I’ve been writing press releases and editing jacket copy and catalog copy, and while it’s all hard work and pretty taxing, making a nice-looking order form that fits in a really small space took a lot out of me.

So here’s the finished result for better or worse. (At least until I’m given some revisions.) Hopefully this is a good form — and I don’t have to do another one for a long time.

Unicode Characters as Named and Numeric HTML Entities →

If you’ve ever wondered, “Hey, I need to know how to encode this Unicode character in HTML,” this is your site — a big honkin’ list of every Unicode entity encoding in both hex and decimal.

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web →

I’m in love with this site. Text-heavy Web design seems to be my thing — and I’ll definitely need to make use of this guide later.