One of the many many things that is cool about being a writer who works with designers is seeing the interaction that often happens between text and design. I’ve always been interested in the visual quality of words, how linguistic and visual languages inform and sculpt each other, and how the brain responds to both.
Additionally, [...]

Two websites (only two?!) have caught my eye this week.
The first is for Elbow, one of my favorite bands. I spend a fair amount of my life examining music marketing and I know for a fact that most bands Elbow’s size have much more starkly designed sites…if you’re lucky enough to get a site at [...]

Widgets seem to be everywhere lately. On my desktop, on my homepage, on my social networks. It was a no brainer for Anne, Rachel and I to sign up and attend last nights MITX event, Building Social Applications & Widgets for Top Platforms. What I took away wasn’t anything about code or the pros or cons [...]

According to Wired’s Listening Post, Ticketmaster may have fabricated Facebook profiles in order to appear “popular.” If you scroll through the alleged fans of their Facebook page, a disturbing amount of these people are unsearchable or have no network of friends. The brand isn’t the type of user-friendly company that people have brand attachment to, but the [...]

Last week Rusha and I attended the AIGA lecture on “Navigating the New Media Frontier” held at the new WGBH building. The lecture had a panel of new media designers show some of their amazing work and talk about what is new media. “So what is new media?” asked the moderator David Small. New media [...]