Posts Tagged ‘graphic design’

Beef up your gutters and put your columns on a diet

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Thumbing through the UK version of WIRED magazine the other day made me realise that online there is very little experimentation or use of quirky or edgy layouts like we see in print. What I mean by this is most layouts online tend to be safe. They express a certain conservative nature with uniformed gutter sizes and content columns of same or similar width. They don’t evoke any emotion. Reading WIRED provokes emotion; each article has its own identity and style related to the content. One column may be far slimmer than the next with a gutter between them that you could drive a tank through.

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Tags: columns, CSS, design, graphic design, gutters, HTML, layout, typography
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Why graphic designers are not Web designers

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

I used to think my vocation would always be graphic designer. Christ, I even took a degree course in graphic communication. However, I haven’t the foggiest about type setting or colour separation. These technical specifications are what graphic designers are au fait with—not me. This is why I soon left my course and landed my first Web design role at Diskeeper Corporation.

I knew my strengths lay in what we—online experts—have come to call today, digital media. Whereas the technical specifications of a graphic designer are type setting and colour separation plates, the Web designer working knowledge is in Web page expansion, graphical user interface (GUI) design and accessibility considerations.

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