Design Diary by Nathan Monk

How To Use An Apostrophe - The Oatmeal

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:22:53 +0000

How To Use An Apostrophe - The Oatmeal

Exclude your IP from Google Analytics

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:09:07 +0000

Exclude your IP from Google Analytics:

Makes sense. Nice trick.

A Photo Credit Doesn’t Pay the Rent

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:04:13 +0000

A Photo Credit Doesn’t Pay the Rent:

A good article about getting paid for your photography in publications. Terrible typography though.

"Jobs rejected them all, including iMac."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:57:28 +0000

“Jobs rejected them all, including iMac.”

- Interview: The Man Who Named the iMac and Wrote Think Different

rebelrabble: The Legolution will be televised! I totally...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:54:12 +0000

rebelrabble:

The Legolution will be televised! I totally bought this shirt.

Twibbon: No donations = No difference?

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:32:09 +0000

Twibbon is a good way to raise awareness to a cause, but offers no real way of contributing to a cause.

The Poppy Appeal seems to have unofficially found it’s way onto twitter and I am a big supporter of that charity. However, how

Beware of Those Hands (via TangYauHoong) I’m on a total...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:22:45 +0000

Beware of Those Hands (via TangYauHoong)

I’m on a total illustration binge.

Lumadessa The best illustration work I have seen in months....

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:39:29 +0000

Lumadessa

The best illustration work I have seen in months. Gorgeous!

Your Soap Sucks (via communitychannel) “You know...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:49:57 +0000

Your Soap Sucks (via communitychannel)

“You know what’s a shit present: Soap”

Genius opening line.

This one is full of good quotes.

List of Google Core Values

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:29:03 +0100

List of Google Core Values:

Worth a read for any business. Nice to see a company trying to run a ‘nice’ ship.

50 Racy American Apparel Ads - mashKULTURE It’s easy to...

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:27:16 +0100

50 Racy American Apparel Ads - mashKULTURE

It’s easy to forget how much AA is sold on sex! This one is tame. They make Helvetica look so darn cool.

Daniel Gray

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:34:42 +0100

Daniel Gray:

I am loving this guys work. Very hot indeed

Death Row inmates last meal requests

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:24:31 +0100

Death Row inmates last meal requests:

A set of thought provoking photographs.

Probably one of the last Autumn sunsets at SMILE, but also one...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:50:07 +0100

Probably one of the last Autumn sunsets at SMILE, but also one of the most beautiful.

"People who are bored are boring"

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:57:19 +0100

“People who are bored are boring”

- Jonathan Barnbrook

Digital marketing in the Midlands: have we got what it takes to become a leading part of the sector?

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:53:06 +0100

Digital marketing in the Midlands: have we got what it takes to become a leading part of the sector?:

Whenever these digital marketing blogs get all uptight about this sort of stuff it’s always “we need Birmingham’s answer to Glue” but in the next breath “we should all pull together”.

YAWN.

I’ve heard it all before.

My old art teacher visited recently and said to me “too many people in Birmingham complain about the state of our art and design sectors, but nobody really does anything about it.”

Stef Lewandowski didn’t like the new Birmingham City Council website so he did something about it. Epic win. If I was him, I’d be pretty chuffed, he seems to have made a success out of BCCDIY.

Raveal

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:06:44 +0100

Raveal:

Looks better than LinkedIn (what doesn’t?!) just doesn’t have the community yet.

edenspiekerman_ Update

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:46:33 +0100

I`ve been to meet Erik Spiekermann. I´m not going to tell you much more than that, but let me tell you: it was fantastic. I will be writing up a complete report of my time here in Berlin for your viewing pleasure tomorrow.

I`m here in Berlin now. There´s not much to say really, I`m in the hotel and it`s absolutely...

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:25:00 +0100

I`m here in Berlin now. There´s not much to say really, I`m in the hotel and it`s absolutely throwing it down with rain! This keyboard is unbelievably ridiculous to type with too. The keys are all over the place!

I really need to start putting my ideas down onto paper because I`m definitely going to forget them. I really wanna ask him about the manifesto that EdenSpiekermann has. How do clients react to it?

It is extremely hard to avoid the obvious questions like, “what`s your favourite typeface?” I think he´d just kick me out if I asked him that.

I`ve bought some of the work from SMILE with me. Rather cheeky I know, but when else am I ever going to have the chance to get a crit by Eric Spiekermann?

Tomorrow will be a strange day with a lot of occurences that simply wouldn´t happen in my day to day life. I`m determined not to get starstruck by Mr. Spiekermann, because we`re all just human, right? I know that some of the things that I`m going to ask, like “can I video this meeting” might be a little offputting, I just hope that it doesn´t ruin it.

Time for some last minute revision on Erik Spiekermann.

On the plane now. Right over the wing, probably my last update untill I get to the other side....

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:40:40 +0100

On the plane now. Right over the wing, probably my last update untill I get to the other side. Goodbye UK.