Tricia Learns Design

A Selection of Ampersands by Meagan Fisher (@owltastic)

Umino Hiroyuki of Umino Seaweed Shop paired up with advertising agency I&S BBDO to create laser-cut, designer seaweed with intricate patterns for sushi.

My inbox is full of more questions than I could possibly answer and still get any work done, so once a month, I try to schedule some time to hold office hours.

USPS standards for FSM

Want to land the job of your dreams? Maybe take a leaf out of these designers' books...

This morning I was looking at a few of the 400,000 images the Metropolitan Museum of Art published online a couple days …

This is an interesting illustration project.

Draft concept for Project #1, a promotional postcard for an event. I cut the strips of paper out of a Willamette Week newspaper and pasted into a rough collage. The text and polka dots were applied in InDesign. I picked type that looked hand cut to match the roughness of the collage. Font is PaperCute by Julien Saurin. 

One of the page elements that brings visual power to the page is the pull-quote. Pull-quote is a display element which is used to attract the reader and to break up long blocks of text. The effect of pull-quotes depend on their attractiveness, both visual and textual. Regarding the text...

Patterns are everywhere. Look around and you’ll probably see one right now. It might be a pattern on a tie, pants, a shirt… the list goes on and on.

And does the distinction even matter anymore? We ask design experts Gary Hustwit, Eddie Opara, and Tobias Frere-Jones to weigh in.

Next in the series where we talk about page elements are picture captions. Believe it or not people really do read picture captions. Even more than intros or pull quotes. Pictures draw attention of the reader and picture captions describe the nature of the picture and this is why they should be…