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When I saw the article I thought “What? I don’t consider my design to be minimalistic.” Then I slowed down and saw how ridiculous was my thought. Who cares what I believe? These good people on The Design Mag selected my design and put it among some exceptional ones, it’s an honour.
Many times I see my website being among “the X best ones”. When I was younger I took such mash-ups very seriously. Now I don’t. Also, never ignore them.
And then came one more thought: does it matter? What does this (tiny or important) recognition means for me? Nothing at all.
Which is of course wrong. Again. It means something, if not I wouldn’t bother sharing the news with the people I follow on the social networks. Such showcases add fuel to the machine. It may last long or it may not. But it is something.
Then I stopped thinking at all. And all I did was to accept the fact. It felt OK.
Kern Type is a beautifully designed, short, online game about kerning (If you have an iPad, you’ll enjoy the game even more). And what’s kerning?
According to Wikipedia:
Kerning is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result.
We shouldn’t confuse kerning with tracking.
Kerning is the adjustment of the space between individual letter forms vs. tracking which is the uniform adjustment of spacing applied over a range of characters.
I enjoyed Kern Type so much that I decided to brag a bit. Here’s my score:
In the world of online advertising, I feel we’ve gone too far away from what everybody knows as “common sense”. I can’t undersrtand why we keep running a model that it is obviously sick.
I predict that in 2050, we’ll look back at the first 20 years of the web and shake our heads. The craptacular design! The hallucinogenic business models! The privacy nightmares! All because entrepreneurs convinced themselves that they couldn’t do what inventors have done for centuries: Charge people a fair price for things they want.
There may be nearly infinite grid systems/mechanisms/whatever that promise to help you, dear designer, to hold your horses and follow a structure. This one is different.
The Golden Grid System is fluid, loves vertical rhythm and is so very easy to be to used.
However, do follow the advice written on the website: the system becomes even better if you tame it and change it according to your needs.
Take a look at the other 29 examples and you’ll detect sites like A List Apart, Trent Walton, Owltastic, 320andup, Cognition, Electirc Pulp, Teixido, Colly, Stephen Caver, Hicksdesign, Naomi Atkinson.
