This used to come on public TV in the wee hours of the morning. (The alternatives: ‘Saved by the Bell’ reruns or QVC.) It teaches science, folks. Remember “Square One?”
To wit: wingless, bean-shaped ducks in sailor hats.
I work for a large academic institution. I’m regularly constrained by common headers, archaic (yet inclusive) compatibility requirements… you get the picture. I know the people that designed these see the same kind of thing—but look what they’ve done anyway!
Just read:
Reading now:
About to read:
Comparing Bid City Logos
Now we know Rio’s got 2016, but if we had to judge based on logos alone…? I think it’s interesting how similar they all look, in general. All use sans-serif type, and three of the four use flat color shapes. Rio blissfully ignores the “colors of the rings” constraint, and I’m interested in whatever the butterfly-thing signifies. Perhaps the interwebs can tell me…
Tables have a bad rep. Do I use them to place logos and menus on my pages? No. Do I use them to arrange tabular data in a matrix? YES. YES, YES, YES. It’s what they’re FOR.
I’m done.
Okay, fine, the snobs in us would say Helvetica wins—but I missed a few of these. Oh, the shame.
As a web designer, this should horrify me. This bookmarklet service lets you choose styles for comfortable online reading, then enable them as you view content from other sites with a click of your bookmark bar. I find it kind of cool; you can print it that way, email it that way… it separates the content from the blinking encroachment of ads or “Look Here!—No, Here!” links that clutter most newsmagazine pages. Interesting.
