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At Magnolia Design, we encourage obsolete computer recycling. But even better than recycling is repurposing. And what better way to repurpose an old Mac Classic than to make a Mac-O-Lantern!

Visit the Bad Banana Blog to find out how to make your very own Mac-O-Lantern!

Happy Halloween everyone. Stay safe!

via Apple Geeks

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People who aren’t in the design “biz” (and even some people who are) often think that typography is just pretty fonts on the page. While this is a common misconception that designers are often faced with, it’s not technically wrong. It’s just… complicated.

According to Oxford American Dictionary, the definition of typography is “the art or process of setting and arranging type and printing from them.” Any designer, printer or art director will tell you that there’s a lot more to it. And most times, it concerns not with knowing what to add, but knowing what to leave out. The responsibility is on the designer to be able to communicate the importance of type in graphic design.

If you’ve been hard-pressed to explain what typography is, then you’re in luck! Here is a video that explains, in brief and under 2-minutes, what typography is. It was directed and animated by Vancouver Film School students Boca (aka Marcos Ceravolo) and Ryan Uhrich through the VFS Digital Design program and features excerpts from Ellen Lupton and Jeffrey Keedy.

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Please pardon the dust ’round these parts recently. We just upgraded and moved our database, so we thought it would be nice to update the web site while we were at it.

Most of the changes we’ve made are actually behind the scenes. It’s now going to be easier than ever to bring you design news of the world as well as samples of my work. To start, we’ll be updating and republishing the posts from our previous blog. Then the task is to begin researching and writing new articles as well as updating the portfolio section. At some point soon, there will also be a video of our own about how to write and execute a “killer” presentation using PowerPoint or Keynote.

So please be sure to check back to see what we have coming up next.

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