STA ARCHIVE MEET & GREET

August 15th, 2010 by ohnho. Published under Announcement, Events. No Comments.

If you’re in Chicago, come meet the judges of the 2010 STA Archive. It’s happening August 26 at the Landmark Grill + Lounge in Chicago’s Lincoln Park. For more information and to register, click here.

GOOGLE WEB FONTS

August 4th, 2010 by ohnho. Published under Typography. No Comments.

After perusing the Apple Safari Extensions, the GoogleFonts in Safari extension from Julio Di Nicola caught my eye. It switches fonts that are available directly from Google and allows you to check how they’ll look on your site. Best part is, the fonts are free to use on your site!
Take a look at the Google Font Directory and see what’s available.

DEVELOPING STYLE GUIDELINES

August 1st, 2010 by ohnho. Published under Tutorial. No Comments.

Smashing Magazine gives us a nice article on creating identity and web style guidelines, written by Kat Neville.

SNAP CHICAGO 2010

August 1st, 2010 by ohnho. Published under Announcement, Events. No Comments.

The STA is hosting their annual Snap Chicago event Saturday, August 7 in Chicago’s colorful Pilsen neighborhood. It’s a tour of the area which reveals itself through photography shot by the participants. See a set of photos from last year’s Snap which the theme was The Devil in the White City.

To find out more and to register for this event, visit STA-chicago.org.

VALUE YOUR WORK

July 26th, 2010 by ohnho. Published under Inspiration. No Comments.

Crystal from Graphic Hug shares with us a piece by Ben Crick that reminds us that as we try to make a name for ourselves as designers, we sometimes fall for the siren song of great exposure but at the cost of doing the work for free. She points us to an article reminding us that doing work for exposure can adversely affect the business of design.
I love the quote from David Ogilvy from commenter grez, “If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.”
See Crystal’s article HERE.