Trading links with another site may not help you or the other site. Google wants to know if your site's content is trustworthy and valuable to their users. It uses the PageRank scoring system to describe your site's popularity. One large factor of your site's score is the quality and trustworthiness of the sites that link to yours. Such a link is called a "backlink"
WeLoveTypography.com is a comprehensive and wide-ranging clearing-house for cutting edge typography. But almost more important, to me personally, a great place to see old type solutions. This image is from the Boston Public Library Flickr group.
I signed up for Darren Rowse's 31-day blog tour-de-force. I got the first assignment and was promptly stuck. It asked me to come up with a mission for our blog. It seems reasonable, to set a guideline for what I'll talk about here, but I came up against a quandary right away. Many of the blogs out there are tutorial, or directed outward in terms
This was our first CD wedding invitation. This is what happens when someone comes to us with an idea of what they want, but, really, they just know that they want something different. We brainstormed and decided that a CD of salsa music, by the band that was to perform at the reception, would get people excited and in the mood for dancing on vacation
BnK came to us for a new brochure based on their existing identity. They wanted something that would stand out in the stacks of materials that every convention attendant lugs home at the end of the day. We asked them how they competed with other builders? What made them different? BnK competes primarily on the relationships they build with their clients. If something goes wrong,
How Not to Iconify: The Trouble with People (in Logos)
I saw this recent post by arch-designer Michael Bierut and wanted to add my own comment. Like us here at Quoin Design, Bierut has had enough of the legion of faceless, genderless, ageless, raceless representations of people in logos. They're sort of beefed-up, slickified stick figures that are meant to stand in for you, me, and everyone else. Logo designs like these usually leave me