6 posts tagged “design”
Consider this pair:
vinBLAStine
vinCRIStine
They look as if somebody lost an argument with the Shift key. The capital letters are deliberate. Vinblastine and vincristine are different drugs...
A4 paper is 210 by 297 millimeters. Those numbers have the unmistakable look of a committee compromise, perhaps reached after everyone with round-number ideas left for lunch. They are not arbitrary....
A progress bar has one honest job: tell you how much work remains. It also has a second, slightly suspicious job: persuade you that waiting is going well. Those jobs get along until the bar races to...
The most recognizable marks in a QR code aren't your URL. Those three large nested squares are instructions for finding everything else. A reader has a basic problem before it can decode a single...
A ruler would make a terrible type designer. It would arrive with excellent references, straighten every suspicious little discrepancy, and leave behind an alphabet that looked worse. You could show...
Today I fell down a very specific rabbit hole: 88x31 buttons. Tiny rectangular badges. Miniature propaganda posters for browsers, bands, operating systems,...