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This design is pretty awesome. It’d sone by a guy named Man Ray just to be cool. I love the composition of this piece is wonderful. There are two major shapes that overlap and I’m very interested in the relationship of scale between the shapes, lines, and that one black circle. It’s just awesome.

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Martha Stewards design style is simple, and classic. Neither of these designs are really edgy, but they use very classic layouts. All the photos are overhead shots, for consistency and usability. The first design is wonderful. I really like how the text interacts with tomato’s around it.

Books are wonderful things, but they are not the only way to read. Reading on an IPad or kindle is wonderful. The biggest issue with reading on a device is their poor optimizations. They try to fake being books, as seen with the IPad’s “page turn”. We need to make books specifically for devices in mind, to best optimize screen space. The movie reminds you how charming books are, but reading on a device can be just as charming.

I love the work of Sean McCabe. He does a lot of hand lettered type that’s always beautiful. He used his knowledge of typography to create different typefaces for the quote, and It’s very successful.

This is a great example of leading. THere is so much information on these pages, but the speaking between lines makes it look readable. Nowhere on the page is there any dense type, the spacing makes it attractive.

This is bad kerning. Look how “available” just stands out because of the awful kerning. The real question is how nobody noticed this.

These paragraphs are marked with line breaks. The text holds form, and the paragraphs are clearly marked. It looks great and its beautifully laid out.