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In the mid-20th century, one design agency was creating whimsical, intelligent, and lasting logos. Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar designed logos for everyone from PBS, to NBC, to PanAm, and National Geographic. In this short video they reminisce about their careers, and reveal how they work these days.
Flat design might be simple to implement, but gradients bring a design to life because in the real world, we never experience color in any other way. Ludmila Shevchenko reveals her love of gradients, and packs in some great tips for how designers can implement this color-essential in their work.
Pity the typographers who grew up playing high-res video games, they'll never know the joy of a pixelated "Finish Him!" Retro video games had limited pixels, and limited memory to work with, and pushed early digital designers to their limits. Anne Quito inserts a coin and looks back at the glory of typography past.
A 404 page is essential for any site, catching users if they make a mistake, or if (gulp) you do. It's an opportunity to have a little fun, and recover the good will that you may have lost with a missing page. Vladimir Stepura collects 18 of the funniest 404 pages on the web, from animated kraken, to confused robots.
Our monthly roundup of the best designer portfolios released in the previous 4 weeks went live this week. This month's collection includes some classic design styles, some punchy color, and a heavy focus on modernist typography. Take a browse through the work of some great designers and get inspired.
One of the leading challengers to Adobe's crown, Affinity have already released Photo and Designer, to critical acclaim. This week they have launched a beta version of Publisher, their desktop publishing solution. With plenty of warnings that it's beta only, you can download it for free for Windows and Mac.
Lazy loading is the technique of delaying the loading of assets until the user scrolls within a certain number of pixels. It radically improves site speed but has to be implemented with JavaScript. Ben Schwarz looks at proposals for native lazy loading, and asks whether this is a practical solution to slow UX.
This week Mozilla launched the Firefox Public Data Report, a collection of metrics that describe the technological makeup of web users. The report, which is aimed at empowering developers, users, and journalists, will be updated weekly and in future will be expanded to offer a more comprehensive picture.
Web apps make great side-projects, offering designers the opportunity to work on something without a client muddying the water, and dip their toes into previously unexplored areas. But what happens when your side project is complete? How do you monetize it? Vasil Nedelchev looks at the options for converting your web app into a startup.
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