After looking at some of our makeover projects and a meeting I had in my design studio today, several concepts just keep lurking in my mind.
I remember some time ago I was a fairly big supporter of the fact that design is art, and posted a poll in the About Desktop Publishing forum. While I [...]

Here I am on my way to work, half asleep on the train. Two studends are sitting nearby and at some point one goes,”A gradient filter is… hm… makes you go from dark to light, and maximises… Damn! I don’t remember and I just studied it!”
So, still half sleeping, I raise an eyebrow and think, [...]

Self promotion is very important for freelance designers. If you want to get clients, you need to let them know you exist, you need to tell them what you can do, and, most of all, you need to show it to them. To that end having a portfolio is not an option, and it is [...]

Want to see our (Italy’s) brand new logo? Here it is! (I am seriously hoping Wordpress won’t stop working because of this.)

And here is the news about it.
I ain’t going around with that scribble representing me. It’s a joke, not only to our country but also to our design industry. I know you all thought [...]

I was travelling to work by train, as usual. I guess I am not in the best of moods when I am still fresh from bed, but I was getting really irritated by the doors between compartments. I don’t know how many times I have had to help elderly people get through them because those [...]

Have you ever opened a magazine, read an article and wondered, “How did the designer think of THAT design element?”
This is a question I have asked myself so many times that I lost count. Then I again I haven’t been counting. As a designer you need to know how to visually communicate a message, that’s [...]

Today I was messing around with a page for a monthly magazine I design. It was supposed to be a quick thing—just a bunch of boxes with ads—but in my quest to make the page interesting, I got lost and I just couldn’t achieve a satisfying result, with my headache as accessory.
I kept changing things [...]

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