A brief history of Computer game title design

Computer games have come a long way since pacman.

Website Of The Year, Possibly All Eternity

The best website of this year by far. Possibly in all eternity.

Motherfucking website: find it here.

Eeek!

The Good And The Bad Of Web Design

This is no great opus on web design, but it just happened that we came across two sites within the space of a day that seemed to represent the best and worst of the current state of web design.

First, the good: http://work4rich.com a site to advertise the position of Rich Silverstein's assistant. It's simple, it has an idea behind it, it's well written, and uses clever web coding sparingly and appropriately to make the experience better.

Now, the bad: http://greatbritishbutcher.com a site that, well I'm not really sure - it's clearly something about butchers or a meat-based product but you're a better man than me if you can be arsed to find out. A clear case of technique and execution drowning the point of the site. I'm actually interested in finding out what this product is, but the way the site is put together makes it really difficult. This dynamic vertical scrolling technique is being hammered to death, and if there isn't really a reason for it, as in this case, it just ends up looking like a digital agency's vanity project. Over wrought and annoying. To whoever put this together, I'd just say remember this old chestnut - because it's as true in web design as anything else - "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should".

Friday Festival Of Fentimans

These are the latest ads in our print campaign for Fentimans, following on from this, this and this. The elements in each have been hand-printed on our vintage press, as we illustrated in this post. By the way, Friday is a great day to try your first Fentimans. You can see some of our other work for Fentimans here.

The Seal Of No Bullshit Approval

Our new (old) stamp arrived in the Sell! Towers this morning, refurbished and fitted with our new seal. It looks like this...

And it does this...

Delicious Gets a New Home

Our good friends Delicious Industries have just moved into their shiny new website. If you're into type and vintage design, you probably already read the Delicious blog - this has now been combined into the main studio website, as has their fantastic print and vintage design shop Art-O-Mart (great name) where you can buy all sorts of interesting print and design niceness. The site is extremely clean and slick, give it a proper look here.

The AIGA Design Archives

Earlier in the week we came across the AIGA Design Archives.

A tasty archive of over pieces of creative work that have featured in the annuals of AIGA over the years. There's lots of modern design stuff on there but there's also some classic gems from Papert, Koenig, Lois, Inc., Carl Ally Inc., Doyle Dane Bernbach Inc. etc.

Be careful though, you could easily wile away a few hours clicking through all 20'000 pieces.