Titilium Very nice sans serif that works well for display. Comes in many weights. I’ve actually used this font a lot in WPF for display and had good luck with it. It’s a little square so it leaves the UI looking a little futuristic if you don’t manage the weights properly. Raleway Light weight font. [...]

All fantastic books. There are other great books, but for me these are the essentials. 1.       How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer by Debbie Millman  //  AmazonThis is the book to read if you want to understand the ethos of designers and understand design culture. Perfect way to begin to feel like you’re [...]

I realized this morning that MIX is just a few weeks away and by a few I mean less than four. I can’t wait. MIX might be my favorite week of year (sorry Holiday Season) and this looks like it’s going to be a great year. Even Joshua Topolsky (Mr. Engadget) thinks so, or did [...]

UPDATE: There were some issues with the Silverlight app before but they’ve been fixed. I was using a custom MP3 encoder to get live audio visualizations in the app but it was crashing in certain browsers. Everything should be working now (sans visualization), but don’t hesitate to let me know if you’re running into issues. [...]

I’ve gone a little dark on the blog lately, mostly due to a suddenly very busy schedule (a good thing for our small team of one at Pixel Lab World Headquarters). I’m excited, though, to share a little about at least one project I’ve been working on: Seesmic for Windows which was announced today at [...]

Funny how your own site is always the lowest priority when your job is to create websites for other people. It’s like the auto mechanic with the broken down car. Well, last week (while I was on vacation with the family) I was finally able to sneak a couple of hours to get the site [...]

I found out today that my MIX09 worskhop is now officially online. I won’t lie, it’s kind of long. The session is three hours of what I wish I had learned about design when I jumped on the design wagon train.  You’ll either want to do this one an hour at a time or else [...]

  1. Stickers For those of you who have submitted haikus, it’s finally sticker time. I’ll be mailing them out in about a week. Between now and then, please send me a physical address where I can send the sticker. Also, let me know how many you want. No reasonable request will be refused (where [...]

My hats of to Microsoft today for putting on a truly inspiring keynote. Deborah Adler shared her story of redesigning the little orange prescription medication pill bottles that we’ve been using for the last 50 years.  I love that story and I had heard it before, but to get it straight from the designer was [...]

If you’ve been following me on twitter at all this week, you know that I’ve fallen off the typography deep end.  I’ve been working on the typography slides for the workshop at MIX and become, well, a little obsessed (and/or annoying depending on how long you’ve been in a room with me). I’ll refrain from [...]