Wie manage ich Projekte erfolgreich? Antworten auf diese Frage gibt das Buch „Jedes Projekt ein Erfolg“ von Christian Mewes. Auf Wunsch kann auch noch ein Tool auf Excelbasis mit erworben werden oder man lässt sich live per Skype coachen. Aus der Websitebeschreibung Projekte können schwierig sein: Man versucht Ergebnisse in einem bisher unbekannten Gebiet zu […]
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Tips for Storyboarding
Source: How to Draw for Storyboarding Doing without planning is surely the most intuitive way for realizing projects. But tempering your impatience and planning upfront is essential for professional work. Drawing storyboards is a thing I use often for planning – for websites, educational applications, videos, art projects etc. If you wonder what the essentials […]
DIY Houses In The Internet Age – build your costumized home
The WikiHouse team designed an open source system and parts for building up your own house in the style of a 3D puzzle. Great idea with much potential in many countries and for people with nearly no budget. via DIY Houses In The Internet Age: Some Assembly Required : All Tech Considered : NPR.
Things to know – Typeface Motter Tektura
Funny who did use Motter Tektura, e.g. early Apple Computers. Have a look at: Motter Tektura in use – Fonts In Use.
Pragmatic basic type knowledge
This article is for design veterans, carrer changers and newbies also. Intended especially for webdesigners it promotes basic knowledge for the use of types – for all flavors of designers. Read it at Jessica Hische – Upping Your Type Game.
Firefox’s new branding
There is an interesting article on Creative Bloq: Behind the scenes of Firefoxs new branding | Illustration | Creative Bloq. It shows some sketches and describes the development of the new branding and use in different media.
Lowercase Letters
For all designer and typographers there is an article to refresh your typo history knowledge on Font.com about the creator (yes, it was one person) of the Carolingian minuscles and the later evolving into Lowercase Letters. This made me re-aware how design is a topic rooted far back in history of men.
Wachstum mit Obergrenze (Sättigung) berechnen
Sehr praktisch für die Berechnung von möglichen Userzahlen ist das logistische Wachstum. Das vereint exponentielles Wachstum mit einer Obergrenze. Als Kurve gezeichnet bekommte man eine S-Kurve mit typischen Wendepunkt und einem Oberen Näherungswert (11. Klasse lässt grüßen). Wer, wie ich, verzweifelt versucht dies in einem Excel oder Numbers Sheet reinzuklopfen und seine Welt nur noch […]
Automatically convert first rows of Excel files to header rows in Adobe InDesign
InDesign is evolving for sure. But there are still things which drive me crazy. Like the problem that a placed (and linkes) Excel file will lose it’s header row (meaning after the link update the first row is a normal body row). One has to reconvert the first rows to header rows each time you […]
A look at the typeface developed for the olympic summer games in Rio
An interesting story about the creation of the Rio 2016 olympic summer games font can be found at: A Typographic Look Ahead At Rio 2016 | The FontFeed.