Author: Curtis Newbold

How Visually Literate Are You? A 15-Question Quiz to Test Your Skills

The Huffington Post just released a fascinating infographic developed by Pixart Printing–a European leader in selling graphic and print services–about printing costs. Would you believe that if the entire world used Comic Sans instead of Helvetica, we’d use 69 million more cartridges of ink? Or if we used American spelling instead

[ezcol_2third]In an age of digital evangelism, churches have a special and important opportunity to communicate their message to the world through their webpages. As might be expected, some religions do better than others at communicating their message. As you’ll see in the slider below, some church homepages focus on leadership,

You’ve probably been asked to create a brochure or a flier or a poster before. And if you don’t have a background in graphic design, you may feel uneasy about taking on the challenge. At the very least, you probably have inadequate and maybe even tossed around the phrase, “I’m

A lot goes into making a good website. Whether you use a website for your small business or for your personal portfolio, usability and user-experience matters. You want to make sure that whoever visits your site has a good experience. But how do you know if the website you’ve created

There are fifteen punctuation marks in the English language, each of which serves a variety of purposes. A couple months ago, I charted each of the fifteen punctuation marks in order of how much each punctuation mark does. As insightful as that may (or may not) have been, that chart

Do you ever look at something someone has created–a new book, or a work of art, or even a new process at work–and say to yourself, “I wish I could come up with creative ideas like that”? We’ve all been there. But the reality is, creative people have something in

If you’re in a profession where you see presentations on a regular basis, you’ve probably heard all the hate-talk directed at Microsoft PowerPoint. The hatred runs deep. On a list of hated design-ish things, it fights for first place with the typeface Comic Sans. In fact, it has become so

With the college football season right around the corner, I couldn’t help but play around with some of college football’s most iconic logos. A couple visual communication theorists (see below) suggest that by adding simple shapes to designs, we humans inadvertently anthropmorphise (give human-like characteristics to non-human objects or shapes) designs

While there are countless ways to ruin good writing, there is probably no quicker way to lose writing credibility than by exhibiting punctuation errors. Punctuation is the visual cue in our language that we use to increase comprehension, to change speed and tone, and to improve the overall reading experience.