Category Archives: Typography

Information design: the best email I’ve ever read

By Nick Morrisson | Published: 11 September, 2009
This email does what it says: it provides an instant view of what’s going on now, what was going on before, and what’s going to happen next. It’s a complete communication that leaves no room for uncertainty. Both the text and typography are clear and concise, using everything that’s needed and nothing that isn’t. My hat’s [...]
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You Are Here: Spatial List Ordering

By Nick Morrisson | Published: 26 December, 2008
So according to this department store sign, if I want to go to floor 1, I go… up? This sign is effectively a map and should therefore be ordered to depict the physical space it represents instead of how we count. Put the bottom floor on the bottom, where it actually is.
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Ambiguous Letterforms Yield N-word

By Nick Morrisson | Published: 6 April, 2008
This is a poster for a show for Vanilla Fudge. The bubbly, melty type seems appropriate for a 1960s psychedelic rock band… until I try to actually read the words. “Fudge” is clear enough, but to my eyes, the “V” in “Vanilla” looks a lot like a “Y”, and the “L”s look like “G”s. Given the [...]
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Bad Information Design: Recipe For Disaster

By Nick Morrisson | Published: 24 March, 2008
Alton Brown, host of the Food Network’s cooking show Good Eats, came up with the best chocolate chip cookies ever. However, to achieve chewy nirvana, you have to slog through a recipe whose failure to even make an attempt at user empathy or to follow common sense is almost impressive. The first problem is common to [...]
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