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Pinky This is my friend Pinky, who is a big Canterbury supporter. He’s currently visiting my office and he reminds us that we’re pulling together for Christchurch and Canterbury here.
JY&A Consulting, 2011-style You’re the first members of the public to see it: the jya.co website. We’re retiring the old jyanet.com/consulting section of the corporate website—I designed that in 2002 and while I am still proud of it, design trends and even our company’s work have moved on. It’s the first site we’ve done where the majority of the fonts are embedded and I’m not thrilled with the font smoothing in most browsers. Overall, however, I’m happy with the message we’re presenting now.
Reddish tint My view a few hours ago. Bugger the Sports’ Stadium cutting out half my bay view. But the sky had a lovely red tint to it.
The literary type We needed a quickie image of the books we’ve been involved in for the JY&A Consulting website revamp. This isn’t complete but it was a quick five that I grabbed and shot on a cell. Sometimes, I do marvel at the technology we have. Not that long ago we’d be shooting this on film and heading down to the photo store.
JY&A Consulting This site design will be retired soon, for three reasons: (a) it’s dated (I designed it in 2002); (b) the graphics are too small for the 2010s; and (c) the big blocks of colour only had the right shape when viewed in Internet Explorer (in 2002, that’s what I was using). I still like the design, but it is time for a change, mainly to keep up with the times.
Creative Review - The Helvetica killer
Aktiv is a font aimed at getting rid of the omnipresent Helvetica.
While I like Helvetica, I must admit that I’m getting a bit sick of it, like when eating too much chocolate gives you diarrhoea. It is used way too much, and for absurd uses (such as long text, like in the article for instance…).
Aktiv is a beautiful font that, when compared to Helvetica, really brings out its flaws. I never realised how ugly some Helvetica letters are (look at the bold “t”!).
Breaking the monotony I like Helvetica, but for similar reasons, we created Lucire as our in-house sans serif. This Aktiv looks nice, though it reminds me a bit of Dalton Maag’s BMW Type and Haas Unica (which is not a bad thing).
