Design Diary by Nathan Monk

2010

December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March 3

February 30

January 48

2009

December 23

November 25

October 30

September 88

August 74

July 6

June 17

May 3

April 1

March 17

February 55

January 22

2008

December 20

November 32

October 15

September 25

August 22

July 14

June 17

May

April

March

February

January

Down at a horse show. Unfortunately the day has been tarred...

Oh yeah! Check out those custom icons…

Custom Leopard Folder Icons

Font Me Typography Mug

13 year old slates Vogue Paris for using...

Find My iPhone works, and it is awesome.

Quotes on Design

Owltastic — by Meagan Fisher

Baseline - a typographic framework

Thought it was time that I got to grips with CS4 properly so...

Apple Tablet: The Wet Dream Concept - apple tablet -...

Jubler subtitle editor

Adding subtitles to YouTube

How to Make Chapter Markers In Final Cut Pro for DVD Studio Pro on Vimeo (via Vimeo) — I’ll...

Dear Pixar: Stop Making Me Cry Like A Bitch

Audi's New Brand

IKEA goes with Verdana

I know why I like these ‘not looking at the...

I warmed up for this one; I don’t think that says much...

This was the first of my ‘don’t look at the...

Back from a few trips of late. Most recently I went on a...

Make Something Cool Every Day 2009

Disney Castle Letterpress Poster

Words are Pictures

Black Bird Fly Camera — Featured in Wired, hailing from...

Vacation responders

Even holidays create work! In the month or so that I’ve been working at SMILE I’ve come...

This week I was compelled to work on Zulu; my work in...

“A famous analogy is to ask a person who believes in God,...”
— Is it true that nothing is...

Information Is Beautiful

The ball at SMILE died at the studio last week. This...

Jme — Insanely cute work on the Jme brand. Check out the...

2011 Citroen DS Is Citroen Future — When searching for the...

via www.influx.co.uk — I watched Munich tonight and fell in...

Split-Ring-Key — I wish I had thought of this.

Firefox Style Guide

“For the first challenge, you must draw your lunch. Remember...”
— Mark Me - Challenge #1: Draw...

Time Lapse Still Photography

It was only this week that Matt and I were talking about doing some sort of truly badass time-lapse...

Welcome to [Redacted] — Great article by Pentagram on the...

So here is the draft of Mark Me. The identity is just a...

Mark Me draft

I literally stayed up till 4 last night coding the first draft of Mark Me - a community submission...

Mark Making online

I was speaking with Sue this morning and we both said how much we wanted to draw again. So...

Lovely Package®

New FontFonts: Release 49 — FF Duper One of the best hand...

New FontFonts: Release 49 — FF Unit Slab So very Erik...

Words and Thoughts (via Vimeo) — A beautiful short on colour. I’d love to do something like...

UK Esquire goes hardback for the September issue Why does...

Umbrella Today?

HTML5 Canvas Experiment « IO 9elements Holy cow!...

“I hate all these stupid limited editions of things. You have...”
— Hella Jongerius

Today I am going to finish this site. I have borrowed a...

I made this video dead quick after a weekend with the band in Blackpool. The whole thing was...

Scholarship Update

I’ve finally got in touch with Edenspiekermann about meeting with Erik Spiekermann himself....

Idea: Embed Spotify tracks/playlists

Today I wanted to share my latest playlist on Spotify that I’ve made using Shazam but found...

Black & White Week: Clean Poster Designs

“faces” by Ryan Bubnis (via enGraVe) More...

engraved black mb (via enGraVe) I recently fell in love...

nathanmonk.com is now my design diary

I said it would happen and I’ve made the transition. I had absolutely no need to have a...

Static Map Wizard

C O L O P H O N

“…we’re on the cusp of a convergence between the...”
— @font-face: The Potential of...

Premailer: pre-flight for HTML email

Using CSS in HTML Emails: The Real Story