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Found Letterform Friday #2
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
These are in no way ending up on Friday. However, I will keep calling them that until they finally do end up on Friday.
Here is some very cool letter-form that is near downtown Chattanooga that I have been meaning to photograph for a while now. Let me know your thoughts.
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- Chattanooga, TN
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- Chattanooga, TN
Found Letterform Friday
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
It’s actually Saturday, but I’m going to try to make this a Friday staple on the blog. I found an old Ford Bronco yesterday that had a fantastic font used for the name “Bronco” on the side. Below are the pictures of the font, and the Bronco itself.
Whoever’s Bronco this is… I like it.
Found Letterform
Friday, June 19th, 2009
I love found letterform. Mostly in vintage 3d signage like the one on our website. However, old or new, I like to see well played out letterform. Here are a few photos I have taken of some that I like. I will probably try to make a found-letterform post everyweek of found 3-dimensional letters I find. Enjoy.
Extra points if anyone can tell us where all of these photos are from. Anyone who can get them all exactly right will get a free custom Level 2 Design poster.
It’s Not About You
Monday, June 8th, 2009
This is a commonly overlooked concept when companies start either a new website, or a website redesign. If you are about start with your website, you need to know, the website is a reflection of your company, but the result is about the VISITOR. It needs to be a place for the visitor to find what they want, and it needs to function how they want.
So often we make the mistake of creating a website exactly how we want it to look and function, and the visitor is not taken into account. When we do this, we don’t think of the visitor, and what they know. We need to assume they know little to nothing about your company, and the product or service you provide, and they really don’t care how you look in your picture.
Here are some simple questions that can help you focus on the visitor.
1. What is your product or service, and how would you explain it to a five-year old?
2. Do you have great (not just good) professional photographs of your products so they are clear, and easy to recognize? Worry more about the visitor wants/needs to see, and less about what you want to show.
3. Is your website simple? This is VITAL
4. If visitors left your site and went to a competitors website would you be confident they would choose you?
If you have any thoughts about usability or simplicity please add them. Let us know what has or has not worked for you.
5 Best State Tourism Websites
Sunday, March 29th, 2009
I recently looked at the Tennessee state tourism website and was surprised by what I saw. It is a fantastically designed website (although a tad too much going on), and it made me wonder what other states had cool tourism websites. Well there wasn’t a whole lot out there that impressed me, and this list could probably stop at 3. The following is the list of state tourism websites that stand out above the rest.
