Category: Graphic Design

Concise piece on how to choose typefaces and the things to consider when designing by Dan Mayer over at Smashing Magazine. We don’t teach any full-scale graphic design or typography classes in the Journalism Department here at UGA … kind of wish we did.

For those crossing over from the pure design side to now having to select the photographic elements, Kathy McInernery on the Society for Newspaper Design site has summed up a presentation by the Denver Post’s Jeff Neumann. Neumann, the lead designer at the Post, in turn posted his presentation on his web site for all to see. If you will...

Yes, not photojournalism. Yes, not video journalism. Yes, not multimedia journalism. Yes, not journalism. But cool, nonetheless – the best bookcovers of 2009. (Thanks to Khoi Vinh for the link.)

There are sites like this all over the place for all sorts of industries, but this once made me laugh out loud a few times – Clients from Hell is a place for graphic designers to complain about, well, their clients. Stick it in your RSS reader, a good Saturday morning read. Thanks to Rob Haggart from A Photo Editor...