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“I’ve been meaning to write some kind of Important Thinkpiece™ on the glory days of the early internet, but every time I sit down to do it, I find another, better piece that someone else has already written. So for now, here’s a collection of articles (Updated, 27 May 2024) that to some degree answer the question “Why have a personal website?” with “Because it’s fun, and the internet used to be fun.” — Rachel

5 Phrases Of Massimo Vignelli is a gorgeous set of posters, entitled: Vignelli Forever, designed by Anthony Neil Dart set in Helvetica. Anthony Neil Dart has designed one main poster summing up five well-known phrases, and quotes, by Massimo Vignelli, then a further five posters each displaying one of the five phrases. These have been floating around for a few years now, but really do like them and felt another airing would be worthwhile. Decided to keep the jpg files

Update: 2025 — No longer available, but still like taking a little trip back to 2013 when this was first posted. You know? This is just class! I can easily see people stumping up the $62 to buy a bottle of, Helvetica The Perfume: The Scent of Nothing (UPDATE: GutsandGloryand.us were extremely kind to send me my very own bottle for which I am eternally grateful, and will post about soon.) We’ve had a whole variety of Helvetica themed

Smithographic worked with Feedly, a popular RSS application back in 201, to design a New Logo, and app icons for Android and Apple iPhone, along with other Web based icons designed for Feedly. The initial rebranding consisted of: main logo design, general identity design, iPhone iOS application icon design, browser extension icon design, and iTunes gallery icon design. The Feedly logo remains one of my steadfast logo portfolio pieces, along with the above mentioned Pure Storage

fOKOS Photography Magazine Banner Logo & Masthead Photography Magazine Logo & Masthead: Project for a limited print run bi-monthly photography magazine, called: fOKOS. A subtly styled lowercase ‘f‘ precedes the uppercase OKOS, just adding enough visual interest to keep it from being too ‘normal’.  The right-side of the letter ‘f‘ is cut and shaped to match the outer curve of the ‘O‘. Typeface used, for all letters, is Avenir Next Heavy.

Smithographic designed a new logo for Excedr, a lab support program that provides scientists with operating lease solutions and comprehensive service plans at an affordable price. Jon Chee, the CEO of Excedr, also hired me to design a new logo for SuperblyCo, 2020 About Excedr “Our mission is to assist laboratories that seek to further scientific innovation. By providing equipment leasing and hassle free repair coverage, we aim to accelerate research and relieve laboratories of heavy

Smithographic was approached by OneQode to redesign their existing logo, and so I set to work with a number of sheets of sketches, and vector concepts. OneQode provides low-latency, high-performance Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for the digital services of tomorrow. The process that lead to the finished design you see was relatively quick, although there were many refinements of the OQ logo mark. Some of the earlier explorations of this OQ combination: Typography The

Learning about Typography: Typography Primer is an absolutely terrific typography and font book, covering a healthy portion of typography, as well as a decent size Glossary of Typographic Terms, provided by Adobe. Learning about Typography: The Typography Primer Book was actually first published waaaay back in the day, circa 2000, but the contents are still very relevant over a decade later, and includes Glossary of Typographic Terms. → Download: Adobe Typography Primer Sure, there are a few references that some

Chad Ashley @cgpov has created these beautiful images of colour palletes created by Dieter Rams for the Braun product collection. Those colour buttons are just begging to be pushed, they are so yummy. ♡ Via: Present and Correct

Initial M / Letter M Logo Design Details The cost for this Letter M Logo for Sale is £600, and its quite a special logo in my opinion. The concept was initially designed for a client who needed a logo for a medical website: http://medifact.md providing information, facts and answers to questions from established and revered medical professionals. Each article is checked by 3 other medical professionals, so as to avoid any incorrect data being