Monthly Archives: June 2006

Dead end critiques are chocolate teapots

I don’t know if it’s a world wide phrase, but one that is used in the UK is to label a really useless thing as "useful as a chocolate teapot". When you show someone a design the response often is a dead end critique. I would label such responses – yes, no, good, bad, wonderful, wrong and many other solo or dual words – as dead end critiques. These are a pointless response and gives the designer nothing to build on or work with. The main place where dead end critiques are worthless is during the design process. A designer always benefits from another eye seeing their work. There are times when you need a good poke in the right direction to put your design on track. I can think of more than one occasion where one of my designs has been saved by this input.

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Get yer free pas 78 on

Pas 78, the document on standards for the web is now available free. Slightly annoying to those of us that paid for it – but on the upside more will read now. Get your Pas 78 on by downloading now.

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Picture perfect

When illustration is great it’s wonderful and these examples from hethe prove that point. Reminds me a lot of the Jamie Hewlett and brings back fond memories of Tank Girl.

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