Minutes » Design http://blog.cdgi.com Things we've done or learned Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:51:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Do typefaces really matter? http://blog.cdgi.com/2010/07/do-typefaces-really-matter/ http://blog.cdgi.com/2010/07/do-typefaces-really-matter/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:12:14 +0000 Mike Fleischner http://blog.cdgi.com/?p=90

To most people, typefaces are pretty insignificant. Yet to their devotees, they are the most important feature of text, giving subliminal messages that can either entice or revolt readers, says Tom de Castella.

When Avatar, the biggest grossing movie of all time was released, one section of the audience was immediately outraged.

Graphic designers hated it. Why? They didn’t like the font that director James Cameron had chosen for the subtitles.

“I hated it on the posters and then threw up a little in my mouth when I realised I would have to read that ugly font throughout the film in the subtitles,” one blogger commented.

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David Saraceno (left) and Vanessa Schaefer (right) of Clockwork Design Group, with Maureen Grenier and Diane Power of Mirick O'Connell.

Clockwork Design Group takes home a FIRST PLACE for Websites at the 2010 New England Legal Marketing Association’s Your Honor Awards!

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]]> http://blog.cdgi.com/2010/03/mirick-oconnell-website-wins-first-place/feed/ 0 The Difference Between Vector and Raster Graphics http://blog.cdgi.com/2010/02/the-difference-between-vector-and-raster-graphics/ http://blog.cdgi.com/2010/02/the-difference-between-vector-and-raster-graphics/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:57:08 +0000 Mike Fleischner http://blog.cdgi.com/?p=73 A short, useful article that describes the difference between the two graphic file types.

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]]> http://blog.cdgi.com/2010/02/the-difference-between-vector-and-raster-graphics/feed/ 0 10 Deadly Sins of Website Design Executed Daily http://blog.cdgi.com/2010/01/10-deadly-sins-of-website-design-executed-daily/ http://blog.cdgi.com/2010/01/10-deadly-sins-of-website-design-executed-daily/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:59:49 +0000 Mike Fleischner http://blog.cdgi.com/?p=72 Website design is quite a debated topic over the last decade with tremendous amount of discussion on what’s right and what’s wrong, what should be done and what not. Despite so much knowledge, here are the 10 deadly sins many web designers commit even today. Check them out.

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