Comments on: Bad Design: Things You Shouldn’t Do

By: Lena

Lena — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:44:39 +0000

Mak – I think you are right. I have added a home link to the upper left where it is more traditional.

By: Mak

Mak — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:31:56 +0000

erm, for a graphics / website designer complaining about contrast etc… your ‘home’ button is a tad, camouflaged and hard to find!
(having arrived at this page from Google search and had difficulty figuring out how to get to main site it was attached to….)

By: Mouse

Mouse — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:47:34 +0000

Where’s the beer?

By: Cleaning up Text for Layout Automatically

Cleaning up Text for Layout Automatically — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:49:08 +0000

[...] recently mentioned a few things you should be doing when preparing type for layout in “Bad Design: Things You Shouldn’t Do” that include eliminating double-spaces and using the correct [...]

By: Lena

Lena — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:43:51 +0000

Oh yeah. You are right about that Papyrus. I too noticed it in Avatar. Cooper Black also was big at one time. Must have come free with some system install.

By: Tonya

Tonya — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:12:59 +0000

Papyrus definitely deserves a mention in the overused font category. I’d never noticed it until xkcd pointed it out and now Ron and I joke about it all the time. The teaser trailer for Avatar used it, even. I was so disappointed.

By: Kim, Ordinary Recipes Made Gourmet

Kim, Ordinary Recipes Made Gourmet — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:54:07 +0000

Amen sister!

By: Lena

Lena — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:19:29 +0000

Okay. I lied. I did go back and edit a bit just now. I found a few typos and grammar that needed a fix and added a link to Photoshop Disasters.

By: Lena

Lena — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:11:18 +0000

I think I just rearranged a couple of posts and it must have notified you. Sorry for the confusion.

By: Richard Robertson

Richard Robertson — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:35:37 +0000

I enjoyed the first version. Where is the change?