“The Grid” has influenced the fields, and related professions of, visual art, typography, and design (including web development) over the course of the 20th century, and it’s important for designers to understand how it has historically evolved, its influence … Read More
Author: Tim Broadwater
The Typography and the Color Should be Friends
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes which occurred from the 18th to 19th centuries – roughly in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1840 – and was a period during which predominantly agrarian societies … Read More
Typographical Elements in Paintings from the Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century and was characterized by an innovative growth of Latin and vernacular literatures, the political development of the conventions of diplomacy, and an … Read More
Notes from #HEWebPitt
Without People, You’re Nothing by Georgy Cohen (@radiofreegeorgy)
Georgy Cohen’s presentation is about how as a web designer you can’t get around working with people, and that your work isn’t about pixels or prose, but rather people. The … Read More
The Jikji, Villard Diagram, and the Gutenberg Revolution
One of the major areas of evolution in technology for the design industry – mechanical movable type printing – occurred during the Middle Ages (or the Medieval period). The Middle Ages, which lasted from the 5th to the 15th century, … Read More