Graphic designers responding to the crisis in Japan
Help Japan, poster by
James White of Signalnoise
Since the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan on March 11th, people around the world have been trying to find ways to assist the people of Japan as the crisis continues to unfold. Graphic Designers have begun to create artwork in response, and many of these beautifully designed pieces are raising money toward relief efforts. I’ve found several articles that discuss the best ways to become involved.
AIGA: How can designers support relief efforts in Japan?
Aqua Velvet: Help Japan
Creative Review: Japan: how to respond?
Red Cross: Disaster Update: Earthquake in Japan
Adding custom webfonts to websites
Currently I am working on another website with Jay Carskadden. Jay has designed this site for a local career counselor and I will be building the site using WordPress. In her designs for this website, Jay is using Highbrow Cafetorium JNL as one of the website’s main fonts. However, this font is not considered one of the standard ‘browser safe’ fonts.
Traditionally there are only a few fonts suggested for use on websites. These “standard browser safe fonts” are the fonts that are most commonly found on all computers. Needless to say, the font choices are somewhat limited. However, if these standard fonts are used with CSS styling, a website’s text should look similar across all browsers. If it was absolutely necessary to use a non-standard font on websites, website developers usually created jpeg images of the text.
Building WordPress sites
Jay Carskadden WordPress site
Designed by Jay Carskadden, site
development by Carol Tompkins
Recently I was hired by a local graphic designer, Jay Carskadden to build a website to promote her business, Jay Carskadden Graphic Design. After talking, we choose to use WordPress to create her website because of the features that WordPress offered and the ease of using this Content Management System.
Working with Jay’s design files, I created a website that features a custom portfolio gallery and blog. While there are WordPress themes (basic template designs for websites) available, I have been designing and building my own themes which allows websites to have their own individual look and features. Jay’s designs for her site had some unique features and we were able to create a website that closely matched her original concepts by creating a specific theme for her site.
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