Nora Wertz Graphic Design

29/06/2024

Dislike:

Pantone’s Color of The Year, PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz, captures the desire to nurture ourselves and others. Learn more about Color of the Year 2024 here.

17/06/2021

I really enjoyed this presentation by Olafur Eliasson:

Step inside the minds of the most innovative designers in a variety of disciplines and learn how design impacts every aspect of life.

08/04/2021

18/02/2021

I really hate this message, it reinforces the idea that having access to design software makes you a designer. Anyone who is tempted, ask yourself: Is your product worthy of the respect that professional design commands?

How to quickly lay out a book cover design using gradients, blend modes, images, and type.

18/12/2020

Cool thought experiment article.

I wish there was more explanation, for example they could say:
While humans have three cones in their eyes, (red, green, and blue (just like your computer screen) dogs have only two and don't see red. Butterflies have something like 12 cones which makes their world a psychedelic fantasia.

But still thought provoking. (Hat tip to Sínead for the link).

https://designyoutrust.com/2019/10/what-the-world-looks-like-through-the-eyes-of-different-animals/?fbclid=IwAR3Ot5023GspY-FEZHFlFBjmkx9nbNQEnEkThKzXVUWK4EtJ4xBsIxinSZ0

Have you ever wondered what you look like in the eyes of your dog? Or even how a bee sees the world? The vision of every kind of animal on Earth is unique, and some can even see what we can’t. Dogs Dogs have poor vision; their eyes aren’t sensitive to a majority of colors, and they see the w

15/12/2020

A-HA! I've finally learned why the ROBOTO font is so inelegant. I've been struggling trying to match a brand which uses this font promiscuously and FRANKENFONT has been interfering with the aesthetic development. Read on to learn how the font was designed for and by the Android operating system.

In the last article I spoke about the San Francisco typeface which is the system font in iOS, so it will be pity if I also don’t look at…

10/12/2020

This feels right.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/style/pantone-color-2021-ultimate-gray-illuminating.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR1G3GJULoLfiAxuaOn68gfga7zkvCPvBY-ziLG-UH7tQOqjBuhITcMj-18

It’s all about the messaging. Get ready for a brighter future.

18/10/2020

A giant of late 20th-century design.

"“Music is placing sounds, to me, in their proper order so they’re pleasing to the ear,” he said. “That’s all. What is graphic design? Placing things in their proper order so they’re pleasing to the eye.”

A noted graphic designer, he was an expert in typefaces, developing many himself and “fixing” others. His work adorns this newspaper.

04/10/2020

I've read that our visual input involves a lot of creativity, that we automatically fill in a lot of data — usually very accurately. Perhaps If we do that then wouldn't it be a fair assumption that other creatures that were highly visually oriented would do the same thing. That is, the act of visual perception would involve what this article suggest is subjective processing?

New study suggests the corvids may join humans and some primates as one of the rare animals capable of having subjective experiences

29/09/2020

Sharing this 'mini-infographic' I made for a recent eBook. They asked for a graphic explaining the relative sizes of data units.