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January 25, 2008

Design Police | Bring bad design to justice.

I love it. I can hear my kindergarten teacher shouting at me, "Don't paint outside the lines!"

I recently watched Helvetica which opened my eyes to the various generations and schools of font-heads. I note that these guys use Helvetica for their stickers, hate Comic Sans, and recommend a grid: must be modernists!

Also, there is a mildly interesting -- although perhaps a bit too inwardly focused and self-aware -- discussion between various Adaptive Path folks about such stamps, here.

Personally, I want to start using this stamp on blogs on a daily basis:


stamp bullshit, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.

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Now that would be a funny comment. Can you image pitching a complete bomb and getting ten of those? LOL!

I need a version of that stamp for PowerPoint, too...

LOL great post. It made me go and see if one of my favorite site of the late'90's still existed. Much to my delight it does Web Pages that suck http://webpagesthatsuck.com/ used to be part of my daily ritual.... You can learn a lot from others mistakes!

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