Just Imagine If They Chose Comic Sans!
You may have heard designers freaking out over Ikea's decision to switch from the typeface Futura to Verdana. I'll go on record as saying that I use Verdana every day when I write and edit. But that's on screen. Ikea's using Verdana in print. At really big sizes. Wince.

Shooting Photographs for the Web
Photos that look great as large prints can shrink into muddled, fuzzy messes when viewed on a computer monitor or, worse, a mobile phone. Professional photographer Jay Kinghorn is here with hands-on tips for composing, shooting, and processing your images so they work well on the small screen.

One of Jay's strategies is to crop tightly, eliminating superfluous or less-important details, as he does here:

Punc Rocks!
When it comes to understanding what we read, periods, commas, and their dotty allies are proof that it's the little things that count. James Felici shows you to how to use them correctly in print and onscreen.

Do you know whether this sentence is set correctly?

Scanning Around With Gene: Give Me Back My Book!
An Ex Libris bookplate was once a common way to identify books as coming from your personal library. Gene Gable is thinking about designing his own. What would your bookplate look like?

This reader was evidently as fond of chickens as he was of his books:

Related Reading: More on books from Gene.

TypeTalk: InterroBANG
Ilene Strizver explores the interrobang, which is both a question mark and an exclamation mark.

Amplitude Wide Bold and Fritz Robusto, both designed by Christian Schwartz, contain different interpretations of the interrobang:

Related Reading: Here's another way to express yourself with type.

Design for Mobile Devices
Mobile devices are everywhere, so visual designers who want to increase their marketability should know the basics of creating for the mobile medium. In this chapter from the book Strategic Mobile Design by Joseph Cartman and Richard Ting, you'll learn about interaction design and the special concerns of designing for the small screen.

Sketching out your ideas first will save time:

Related Reading: Here are three ways to move an existing Web site onto a mobile device.

Canon's EOS 7D Is Feature-Packed

Shape the Future of Photoshop

Panasonic's Lumix DMC-GF1 Debuts

Get "Real" Baseline Grids on the Web

Tap Into Your Inner Idealist with the Good Web

Want to see words made out of orange rinds? Clothespins? Tortillas? Soapsuds?

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