Mark Boulton

12 Responses to “Articles to come”

1. 
   Marco Verheul said on: August 25th, 2004 at 1:42 am

   Hi Mark,

   Love your site! I can be short about the sub­jects you men­tioned: I’m inter­ested in all top­ics, espe­cially in “Design a grid — properly”. 

   Cheers, Marco

2. 
   mark said on: August 25th, 2004 at 1:52 am

   Thanks Marco.

   I’ve been toy­ing with the idea od grid design in the tra­di­tional sense. I was lucky enough to have book design­ers as lec­tur­ers in college.

   It’s amaz­ing to see many gradu­ates today not not how to con­struct a grid based on pica meas­ure­ments (which are based on the type-size of your choice). This of course throws up all sorts of inter­est­ing ques­tions on the web because type size is determ­ined by the user. 

   Any­way, thanks for your com­ments. I’ll get going on those articles.

3. 
   netsnob said on: August 25th, 2004 at 1:59 am

   hi dude,

   Pls post all of the above topics! 

   I look for­ward to it.

   Cheers

4. 
   Matt said on: August 25th, 2004 at 10:35 am

   I think they would all be great. Pleaze post them all mang.

5. 
   AmyO said on: August 25th, 2004 at 2:36 pm

   Those all sound like great art­icles (well, I don’t use Move­able Type, but read­ing about one’s design pro­cess is always inter­est­ing). I’d espe­cially be inter­ested in the typo­graphy art­icles. That’s just some­thing I’m really not good at. 

   Oh, and cool site you got here.

6. 
   Nell said on: August 25th, 2004 at 2:52 pm

   Hi Mark. I just found your site on Styleg­ala. Great work! 

   I’d be inter­ested in all the art­icles you pro­pose, spe­cially in both the typo­graphy art­icles and in the grid article. 

   By the way, I’d like to add your journal to my news aggreg­ator, but I couln’t find a RSS feed.

7. 
   Adam Bramwell said on: August 25th, 2004 at 11:19 pm

   Grids n typo­graphy get my vote, and every­one else’s. Why is that, because no-one else has really writ­ten about them much?

8. 
   Mark said on: August 26th, 2004 at 2:48 am

   Amy — Thanks for your com­ments. The reason I’m writ­ing those art­icles is there seems to be a LOT of stuff on CSS, Stand­ards and Design mus­ings / the­ory but there doesn’t seem to be much avail­able on simple dos and donts based on solid design the­ory. There are rules for things like typo­graphic header rela­tion­ships that came out of the 60s. Up until recently they were used. 

   Nell — Thanks for you com­ments. Good point about the xml. In the rush to get this site finally like I for­got the feeds! (in addi­tion to all the com­ment pre­view­ing tem­plates). They are now avail­able from the index page only at the moment. Thanks for point­ing that out. 

   Adam — I guess nobody has been in a pos­i­tion to write­about them much I guess. Typo­graphy tends to lean towards typeface and font cre­ation rather than design­ing with type along and under­stand­ing and devlop­ing the com­plex rela­tion­ships that exist between head­ings, sub­head­ings body copy etc. 

   I guess i’m lucky in the respect I had quite a tra­di­tional design school­ing in Typo­graphic Design fol­low­ing a Graphic Design dip­loma. I was taught by book design­ers and my entry in the Inter­na­tional Soci­ety of Typo­graphic Design­ers was a three month pro­ject in which I was required to hand-draw grids, based on strict meas­ure­ment, hand mark up copy for type­set­ting — really tra­di­tional stuff. Still, Iit was worth it. I was awar­ded full mem­ber­ship into the soci­ety in 2000. 

   Thanks for your com­ments all. I’ll try and get on with these art­icles as soon as possible.

9. 
   Keith Bell said on: August 26th, 2004 at 5:42 am

   I vote for grids and the two typo­graphy items. 

   (Came here by way of Styleg­al­lery — nice clean lay­out, Mark.)

10. 
    Nell said on: August 26th, 2004 at 8:24 am

    Great, thanks for adding the feeds Mark!

11. 
    Mark Boulton said on: August 26th, 2004 at 8:29 am

    No Probs Nell, 

    You might be able to answer a ques­tion of mine actu­ally. I’m try­ing to get my RSS feed to show my Favicon in net­News­Wire but can’t seem to get it to work.

    Any ideas?

12. 
    Nell said on: August 26th, 2004 at 8:55 am

    Yes! I just answered in the other post, but your favicon must be in the site root as this: http://www.markboulton.co.uk/favicon.ico