Chat Creative

Too often I notice designers and non-designers alike equating creativity with design. I find this assumption disturbing because it is one of the many fallacies that allow unskilled but creative pretenders to consider themselves capable design professionals when they’re nothing of the sort.

Here is Ira Glass of "This American Life" talking about the building blocks of a great story.

Textur.es is a community ran texture gallery for designers, photographers, and creatives alike. Anyone can submit their own textures to the gallery for others to admire and utilize. License note: unless specified otherwise, all textures are licensed under the Attribution 2.0 Generic CC license. ...

Have you ever seen a tabbed content area in a sidebar that was a little jerky? The jerkiness can be caused by a bunch of things, like the content in the

Ever wondered how to create a series of columns of equal height, while the content in one column is longer than the next? Faux columns are your friend!

The Human Element

Hoefler & Frere-Jones (H&FJ) designs and markets original fonts. Their body of work includes some of the world's most famous designs, typefaces marked by both high performance and high style.

So, you've seen the progress of our DIY efforts throughout the videos. We've been busy painting and decorating for 5 weeks, and have just about finished

Changing Our Thinking About Design discusses the constantly change web design industry, and how we can change our thinking to stay on top.

When you are creating a website (or hiring a web/blog designer to create one for you), there are specific items you need to be aware of. Things that normally

It's time we break the habit of thinking we gotta cram as much as possible above the fold because people don't like to scroll. It just ain't so! Here's a

As I mentioned in my last post, I wanted to save all the mushy design details for this post. I wish to spread the details out over three parts instead of trying to fit everything in to one gigantic post. ...