Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you’ve never noticed Roman Mars is obsessed with flags — and after you watch this talk, you might be, too. These ubiquitous symbols of civic pride are often designed, well, pretty terribly. But they don’t have to be. In this surprising and hilarious talk about vexillology — the study of flags — Mars reveals the five basic principles of flag design and shows why he believes they can be applied to just about anything. ...
Bit This! Advertising, Design & Digital Culture → Bit This! is not an advertising agency, or a design studio, nor a digital agency or a branding consultancy. It is all this and much more. Bit This! is a new communications agency that was born from one idea: when we thought we knew all the answers, they changed all the questions. A really beautiful website — everything is very large and nicely colorful. I like it. ...
CSS3 Filters: Altering HTML and Images with just CSS → CSS3 Filters are a quite interesting offshoot from SVG, allowing you to modify HTML elements and images with blurs, brightness and a lot more. In this quick tutorial we’ll go over exactly how they’re going to work. Black-and-white and blur filters should definitely be added to the HTML5 standard. They would make it possible to create some really great effects. ...
If you want a readable, attractive font that’s supported by many systems on your website, you should go with Helvetica. Here’s a very good code snippet. body { font-family: "HelveticaNeue-Light", "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-weight: 300; } The code was published by Chris Coyier on 10. August 2009. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.