Design

Good-bye Lorem Ipsum

1 year ago

by tpham211 in Design, Graphic, Web

Let’s face it. Lorem Ipsum is so 1995. Every web designer out there has encountered, during a presentation of a concept website design, whereby the audience member/client starts reading the text placeholder and says, “I don’t understand what this is”.

For years I’ve gone to http://www.lipsum.com/ to generate Lorem Ipsum for my mock sites and design comps. Those days are finally behind us. Here are some gems that I’ve found:

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Misuse of Visual Continuity

1 year ago

by tpham211 in Design, Graphic, SharePoint, Web

Last week I posted an article on Visual Continuity. I gave a good example and a bad example. Here is an example of Visual Continuity gone wrong. Where they used all the visual cues but then proceed to beat it to death.

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It is a screen capture of my iPhone after installing the Gucci theme. (more…)

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Visual Continuity

2 years ago

by tpham211 in Design, Graphic, SharePoint, Web

Today, I came across this. It was hanging on a wall an IMF’s HQ1 cafe.

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It is a small poster that Sodexo put up as a part of the PR campaign to introduce IMF members to their service.

Notice the 14 icons/flares/symbols? This is what you call visual continuity. Each icon, by itself, is unique. Yet, they are bound to each other through the color palette, shape, drop-shadown and stroke.

This is an example of good visual continuity – so good that I stopped what I was doing to snap a picture and now writing about it. (more…)

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