Remember books? And book covers?
Actually, far from being forgotten in the digital age, beautiful book cover design is still a going concern
I was just introduced to a site devoted to great cover designs thanks to Facebook friend Mary Frances Hill : http://www.lifeclever.com/1000-book-covers-to-delight-your-design-soul/
It features a thousand innovative and interesting book cover designs. While none of ours [...]

We launched our latest site for the Centre for the Study of Gender, Social Inequities and Mental Health last week to coincide with the Centre’s launch at Simon Fraser University.
For the next five years, the Centre will be doing global research on how its three main areas of concern overlap to shape our lives and [...]

As most of you know justifying type means that the margins are even on both the left and right margins. It’s a way of organizing lots of text and making it easy for the eye to read.
Unjustified type sets the type ragged on one side. This can also make for an attractive and readable setting.
In [...]

So, do you know what type you are?
English design house Pentagram has an amusing online survey that matches you to “your” typestyle.
Can four simple questions really find a match between your personality and a typographic design?
Check out the entertaining video and see! Go to http://www.pentagram.com/what-type-are-you
Enter the password “character”

Our tip sheet on Top Tips to Writing Great Email has been getting a lot of response, hits and circulation. http://www.workingdesign.net/blog/tip-sheets/17-top-tips-for-writing-great-email/

A recent article in the Vancouver Sun alerted us to a similar effort by the University of Victoria’s Information Systems Department.
Entitled “Better Practices for Email” the brief report discusses how to write, use and manage [...]