Most designers don’t think all that much of movie posters, and for good reason. The few posters that aren’t Photoshop disasters tend to follow the same dull template – a series of faces placed in front of a full, spacey background. There has been a lot of commentary about the lack of creativity in movie posters recently, and it all seems to boil down to one point: posters are designed to sell, not to stand as creative feats.
Here‘s an eleven-year-old article discussing the web’s worst design mistakes. It’s an interesting look at what the internet was once like, particularly for designers that have been using the internet since the late 1990s and have had a chance to observe trends and ‘mistakes’ come and go. Another piece examines the most annoying design mistakes from 1996, and is also an interesting read for seasoned web designers.
The days of office hell appear to be on the way out. Statistics from the Robert Half International Survey pegged the rate of American telecommuters at almost three percent, aiming to demonstrate that workplaces can benefit from remote staff and flexible working arrangements, even in industries where in-person hours are often used to judge effort and work output.
In the past few days I’ve had the chance to catch up with web developer and designer, Jacob Gube. Jacob is the founder and chief editor of Six Revisions, a website that publishes practical and useful articles for designers and web developers which reaches over a million visitors each month. Along with working on Six Revisions, Jacob has recently finished writing his first book entitled “MooTools 1.2 Beginners Guide Book.” Thanks to Jacob Gube and Pakt Publishing, AddToDesign will be giving away 3 signed copies of this awesome book.
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