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Who needs a hand, two legs, or a foot? Not the cast of Mad Men, according to Rolling Stone. Who let this go to press? This atrocity was brought to our attention by the good people over at Jezebel.com.
Photo courtesy of Jezebel.com
Now I understand that it can be hard to get everyone to look good [...]
Ah yes the infamous brown letter that ends up in our garbage. It can confuse our clients and at one time make us double guess the status of our domain. Rest assure, it’s typically just spam.
I’ve been a fan of hand drawn typography since I started my design career and just stumbled across this video and had to share. Beautiful!
This music video from Ratatat’s new single Drugs is so awful, yet so captivating. The entire thing is based off stock video compilations of various Getty stock photo shoots. Enjoy!
Whenever we’re designing something new at mediumrare, we usually take a few hours to compile a ‘moodboard’ of what we are striving for visually. In these moodboards, we lay out many images of different web sites, print items or branding pieces that we can draw some inspiration from, whether it’s typography, color palettes, types of [...]
I’ve struggled with font management when using multiple machines in the past, but the sweet sweet combination of Dropbox and Suitcase make all those problems go away.
Since I’m usually designing on 3 computers (laptop/work/home), I need to have all my fonts synced up to make sure I don’t have any issues when working on a project [...]
A common problem I’ve run into in Photoshop is the inability to move a group of layers around my document due to having a locked layer in the group. For example, if you look at the following screenshot, you’ll notice a locked layer at the bottom of the group (Layer 2530). If I try to [...]
During day to day development, there are many extra steps we take to optimize websites and web applications for our clients. Inside are six quick tips that we usually employ so that the websites we design then develop continue to perform snappy days long after we launch.
We love to make websites for other people, but somehow making one for ourselves kept getting put on the back burner. It took some time, but we’re proud to launch the new Mediumrare website and blog for your viewing and reading pleasure.