Michael M. Grant's Viral Notebook

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. - Thomas Merton Balance is important in life. Work and play;

Tagul is a web service that enables you to create beautiful looking tag clouds and embed it on your web page

Benguiat is a decorative serif typeface designed by Ed Benguiat and released by the International Typeface Corporation (ITC) in 1978. The face is loosely based upon typefaces of the Art Nouveau period but is not considered an academic revival. The face fo

We were unsurprised to learn today that someone has just posted the entire new Harry Potterharry potter book on the PDF hosting site Scribd. That's part of

iStoryboards is an app for the iPod Touch and iPhone for creating simple storyboards for film makers.

Your how-to guide for Google with Google tutorials, tips for using Google and advice.

Google celebrates Sesame Streets 40th anniversary with a series of great logos.

Text isn't just limited to language, it can be also used to create unique, unusual pieces of art. This roundup features a selection of creative imagery composed entirely with text.

On the site you can find design patterns, good and bad examples, quick tips, and links to various tools. I think the examples section is very good since the accompanying text explains why each example is good or bad.

The results from WebAIM's October 2009 screen reader user survey have been posted. Some results are expected while others can be a bit surprising.

Most websites are not learner-friendly. Web creators might aim for beautiful, accessible, usable interfaces to house their smart, web-native content, but they don't often have learners' goals or needs in mind-if they even know what those needs are.

Jelte van Abbema Last week, Jelte van Abbema won the Dutch Design Awards' €10,000 Rado Prize, which goes to a promising young designer. One work that caught the judges' attention is Symbiosis, a font printed in bacteria.

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Icon sets for Christmas and holidays.

Type is a fundamental part of any design it appears in. It can be used as text to read, as a shape and as a visual element where the choice of typeface conveys an emotion or mood. Type, when used well doesn't need a photograph or illustration to back it u

Big, bold typography can be very powerful for conveying a message or just for achieving a desired look. In this post we'll showcase more than 25 items that feature big, bold typography. To see more work from a particular artist/designer, click on the imag

One of the areas of focus that I've taken into all my designs are the four major design principles. They include: contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity.

In a previous article I went into detail about the important roles that contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity play in webdesign. This article will piggy back on those principles as I examine 6 ways you can take your webdesign from good to great.

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