A short post for a quick laugh today, a clever typographic parody of the 1978 movie Drunken Master featuring the battle of Sans vs Serif fonts.

Univers Chan of the Sans Clan vs Sabon Huang of the Serif Clan, who will be victorious?

Seriously though…

For a real look at sans and serif typefaces check out these;

• 10 sans typefaces for designers.
• 12 serif typefaces for designers.

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It also provides some basic advice on how your website can be improved from a marketing perspective as well as on-page and off-page search engine optimization tips. The site requires no membership, generates reports for you immediately and records previous data points so you can track your sites improvment.

Your basic summary will look something like the above image, but there’s much more information available in the full report and it gives you a lot to track and measure. Continue reading...

To start, I thought I’d confused you by opening my 10 favorite logotypes post with the logo design for eight.

Seriously though, a logotype is a logo comprised of text only, with no graphic mark, generally either a custom font created for the project, or an existing typeface which has undergone a type treatment. Today I’ll share with you a couple of my favorites.

Families. Logo design for the readers digest publication, by Herb Lubalin.

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Many blogs achieve success by having an article featured on the front page of digg, slashdot or other social bookmarking website.

All too often though the procedure goes like this:

• You publish an article
• Your article is featured on Digg ( hooray )
• Your site is then, what could only be called assaulted, by an enormous amount of simultaneous visitors ( hooray ? )
• Your web hosts SQL server then crashes ( not hooray… ) resulting in your website and the websites of anyone sharing your SQL server to go offline.
• You’re then contacted by the unhappy technical support person from your web hosting company who is responsible for fixing the server you just broke.

The ability of your blog to withstand such traffic will primarily depend on your hosting arrangement, whether you have dedicated or shared hosting, and various other factors. There is however something to help you survive, a caching plugin.

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Here’s a great parody of spec work applied to a variety of real world situations. I’d love to see someone actually do any of these in real life.

Enjoy.

For a serious look into speculative work there are a tonne of articles availalbe over at No!Spec.

A good place to start is 10 reasons not to engage in spec work.