We’re all familiar with typeface specimens and we know they can be a work of art unto themselves. But I personally haven’t ever seen one quite like this. I think it’s a great experiment. I would love to see more type foundries producing little videos that give us more background information about their typefaces. It’sContinue Reading
It’s been bothering me lately that all of our computer screens are in widescreen landscape mode, and yet all the webpages we make are fundamentally long portrait pages. Almost all websites these days are flanked on either side by a sea of whitespace. While I’d love to jump to conclusions, I don’t think it’s laziness.Continue Reading
Last week, Evernote won a Crunchie for best mobile app, and while I had virtually nothing to do with us winning, I just wanted to say that I am really pumped to be working on a team that is doing such good work. It’s a great thing to be working at a company that isContinue Reading
Portraits of kids are all the same. There may be a lot of them out there, but in the end, they are all just a variation on the same happy theme – a commentary that kids are always smiling and laughing. I think we do them an injustice by painting them this way. This hasContinue Reading
As a general rule, I am more impressed with execution than with the spark of an idea (although they go in tandem). Seeing people follow through on something with skill and determination is always inspiring. This video from Miguel Endara is all about execution. It documents his 3.2 million dots in this neo-pointillism portrait. I’mContinue Reading
Vincent Morisset is probably my favorite artist of 2011. You may know him from any variety of projects for The Arcade Fire. I saw him at OFFF in Barcelona and was super impressed with his work, but even more so by his explanation of his process. He just always seems to take it one stepContinue Reading
My first project after joining the team at Evernote was Clearly, a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox to improve your reading experience on the web and your ability to remember what you read. It works by stripping away the excess cruft of any given page and focusing on just the main content. I workedContinue Reading
Happy New Years! 2012 may be the end of the world, so I figured I better start getting my act together. It’s time for a New Year’s resolution. I’m not really into this type of stuff so I figure I’d better make it nice and simple. There’s a lot of things I want to doContinue Reading
There’s a couple new type games out, made completely in HTML5 – which means you can even play them on your iPad. They are fun and addictive, so enjoy and be careful. A great way to try your skills and see where you fall short is actually doing it and then looking at where youContinue Reading
As you probably know, I spent a good portion of the last year in Barcelona. It’s a city rich with culture and art and packed with a tumultuous history and still its extremely expressive and doesn’t always follow the rules. This mixture means you’ll never know what you see on the streets. These shots wereContinue Reading