Stuff 4 Designers

Bison Art are a design studio based in New Zealand. They have a very strong, painterly illustrative style, I particularly love the “Lost Woman” illustration first here. A lot of the illustrations have an ethnic / African feel, all beautifully textured and layered. Their design work contrasts somewhat with this as quite modernist and minimalist, [...]

I first came across Meg Paradise when she was working for Modern Dog, a GREAT poster design company (among other things, the posters are my favourite though!). Meg now co-runs her own design studio with two partners, Parliament of Owls, well done Meg! That’s class. Meg is particularly talented with illustration and typography, she is [...]

Chrissie Abbott is possibly best known by the high profile artwork she developed for the Little Boots album. Besides this beautiful and evocative work, her portfolio is prolific and always captivating.  She’s the queen of psychedelic, well composed collages and has also had some gorgeous forays into hand-drawn type.  Abbott creates fantastical, ethereal landscapes with [...]

2011 has been a whirlwind of exciting new techniques, tools and technology so far. Here are just a few items which have caught our eye over the last few weeks.

The exciting realm of typography has opened up to web designers in a big way recently with the advent of @font-face support in our browsers. However, there is a slight restraint on the selection of typefaces available for use with @font-face and that’s the tricky subject of licencing. Fortunately, there are quite a few licenced [...]

Font-size-adjust is a handy little CSS3 property that adds another asset to our web typography toolbox. At present it is only supported by Firefox but the spec on this one seems fairly clean-cut and simple so here’s hoping the other browser makers step up to the plate on this one sooner rather than later. You [...]

Typography on the web has been a trend which has been building slowly and steadily but it is set to take centre stage in 2011 as the technology and resources are finally here to support it. With the battle of @font-face finally settled and the advent of web typography finally upon us, web designers now [...]