CNN recently redesigned their site, and I have to say it makes me a little sad. Usually these big corporations have the money to put in to serious design, and news agencies especially are looked to as sources of innovation, since their bread and butter is typography and layout. CNN’s new design, on the other hand, looks like a customized (maybe even ’slightly customized’) WordPress theme.
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MyFonts has posted the top 10 fonts of 2008 as determined by sales, and unsurprisingly they are mostly retro-fabulous. It’s a good collection of new fonts, and I think it supports the idea of a taste trend towards the hand-made, away from the bland, put-it-together-quick design that was so prevalent not too long ago. They are homages to things that take a long time to do, which is becoming increasingly less desirable as the economy becomes even tougher.
I came across her prints on Flickr, but Helle Jorgensen’s Gooseflesh has some great things on sale at Etsy. Sea-inspired soft crocheted urchins and corals? Go buy now!
Sometimes the best solution is the most simple solution. Colin Willems of SPRANQ, a communications agency in the Netherlands, came up with Ecofont, an ink-saving font that purports to use up to 20% less ink thank your every day Helvetica. An eco-friendly solution for those things you need to print that might not be so precious.
I was getting ready to watch a fantastic episode of MTV’s “Pimp My Ride” when I saw a commercial for something that looked much more interesting! I hopped over to mtvengineroom.com and watched two episodes, or, webisodes, of this new web series from MTV U and HP (I didn’t know they still made things other than free printers).
The aptly named color inspiration blog COLOURlovers recently posted color schemes taken directly from The Great Depression and WWII. Through Flickr , The Library of Congress shares some photos from the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information from the 1930s to the 1940s.
Obama Moves Into the Whitehouse(.gov)
At noon today, even before he was officially sworn in, Barack Obama officially became the 44th President of the United States of America, and as quickly as he said his oaths, the www.whitehouse.gov website was re-launched. The new design reflects the aesthetics of the Obama campaign, and is clean and accessible to a very broad audience. Sections are large and obvious, and it seems to be easy enough to navigate.
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