Design

No one ever became successful by doing what every one else did. It was the person with the point of difference that stood out, the one that took a gamble, the one that dared to non-conform.

I admit it. I love design. I do judge a book by it's cover and one of my most loved facets of design is Typography. I can spend hours drooling over beautiful type treatments. It doesn't matter whether it is in books, on a new product on the shelf, a gig poster, advertising or a fresh new website, if it has good typography, I'm hooked. A quick search on photo sharing site flickr.com for typography will bring an astounding list of results and some will leave you speechless. Check it out for yourself.
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=typography&w=all

What is it about blue? The websites that are part of our life and define our expectations of what a site should look like are all blue. Google , MSN.

Whether you are a political blue or red, your online news site is blue. Times Online, Guardian. The colour of the BBC News home page changes constantly but people have this image in their head of the BBC site being blue. Why is that?

Jonathan Jarvis explores use of new media for part of his thesis work at the Media Design Program, a graduate studio at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

To quote Jonathan from his website...

"The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated."

In short, he has created a stunning piece of work carefully utilizing and maximizing his assets. Watch and enjoy.