Handwritten type is one of those awesome design elements that I find myself always wanting to find a way to implement into a project. It’s really a powerful tool, because it can eliminate the need for photography and illustration all together.

Silverscpape is thrilled to announce DRIFIRE.COM is a MITX 14th Annual Interactive Award Finalist Finalist, Consumer Goods 2009. DRIFIRE is the leading producer of Comfortable Flame Resistant FR Apparel.

You’d think that, being a creative, I would have been planning, sketching and designing out my Halloween costume both in exquisite detail and months in advance. Alas, my weekends have been filled with afternoon naps and end-of-summer bike rides and I am totally behind the Halloween eight ball. So, for all you fellow Halloween-stumped designers, here are some costume ideas.

The topic for this blog came up from a meeting I had last week with a prospective client. Very often when our firm is sought out to create a new website or provide brand strategy for a company, we have to raise the all-to-familiar and never comfortable question: what about your logo?

One of my pet peeves about blogs from creative interactive agencies is that they are often farmed out to prolific professional writers that produce lofty witty commentary on the industry’s latest superstars. Many go to the utmost lengths to attempt to convince you that they are innovative just because they say they are.

Every morning at 9am (okay…9:20) I turn on my comp, check my email, hug every single one of my co-workers, finish all of my timesheets, and look at the day’s posts on NOTCOT.org.

Producing HTML emails is a hazardous job; those of us who do it bear the scars to prove it. The release of Outlook 2007 and the rise of Google as an email provider has severely muddle an already complicated ecosystem. Outlook’s new HTML rendering engine and Gmail’s inconsistent standard implementation are a huge setback to the hard-won achievements we’ve gained in the last few years.