Design

Mar 05 08

I had to spend some time cleaning up my email subscriptions today. All those Yahoo groups can take their toll on an inbox and, despite their usefulness, something had to done before my morning email routine became much more time consuming than it should be.
So, one by one I went through my groups to […]

Banner blindness

Feb 23 08

Ashley MorganDesign1 Comment

Occasionally a new font comes along that becomes an instant winner. Archer, the colorful slab serif from Hoefler & Frere-Jones is described by it’s makers, very accurately I might add, as follows.
Sweet but not saccharine, earnest but not grave, Archer is designed to hit just the right notes of forthrightness, credibility, and charm.
Readable and […]

The greater the font the bigger the risk

Feb 15 08

Ashley MorganBlogging Design5 Comments

Size matters very much in blog design. There’s a constant battle between having enough space on the page and making sure all your readers can access your content.
It’s the age old browser width conundrum. Do you design for a minimum width of 800 pixels, 1024 pixels, 1280 pixels, or do you go liquid? […]

Size matters

Jan 21 08

Ashley MorganDesign11 Comments

This is only a quick 10 minute sketch I’ve knocked up in Photoshop but it brought a smile to my face. I wanted to keep the text only feel of the current design whilst injecting some interplay between the words. Hopefully the fonts, Dali and Gotham Ultra, reflect the meaning of the words and create […]

Quick Upstart Blogger Logo Sketch

Jan 09 08

Ashley MorganBlogging Design8 Comments

This is a post for all of the designers who read this blog, and for anyone else who has an eye for design. Upstart Blogger needs a new logo. Something simple and clean that would look good in different situations both on screen and in print. The logo will be used on this blog and […]

Design a new logo for Upstart Blogger and get a one year PR6 link to your blog

Dec 17 07

Ashley MorganDesign6 Comments

One of the biggest mistakes that new blog owners make when purchasing an established net property is to hastily change an already working design. The urge to arrive in a blaze of glory with an all bells and whistle design is something that can be seen all too often in the blogosphere.
Upstart Blogger already […]

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it

Nov 23 07

AntonioDesign1 Comment

Being a graphic designer I’ve always appreciated and paid attention to the small details in a design. Things like the pixel distance between a headline and a body of copy. I have always spent the extra time making sure those small details were always consistent and made sense. For many years I would position elements […]