corporate identity

Last week I got my new business cards. The folks at Zalsman did a great job printing the range of colours carefully selected by Rob Krijgsman. I believe in this case offset print makes a noticable difference to digital print. The colours seen on screen (my digital previews) match the ones on paper quite well. The maroon really "pops" and the even the subtler green gradations are clearly demarcated. I also received some letterheads, most in full duplex, full colour. All of it looks equally wonderful. So I'm sure these stationaries will bring some extra sparkle to the already joyous task of sending invoices. :)

If you mouse over the image you can see the back of the card.

Code Culture has a brand-spanking new layout. My wonderful friends Leon and Rob from WAT Ontwerpers have concocted a colourful corporate identity, logo, and website design. The drupal theme for this website, I built myself. Though this is still a work in progress (and it probably will be a work in progress for the remainder of it's life), many of the elements of the new design are in place. Let me point out some highlights:

• The logo can be placed over any image and still retain it's expressive power. The header image can be altered to match a specific section's topic or style.
• Good old Helvetica is serving some nicely layed out text styles. Most (semantically relevant) html text elements have been molded to a calm well readable rhythm. Blockquotes, links, linespacing, indenting, lists, etc have all been carefully layed out.
• We have minimised wasted space by wrapping the text under the right column.
• To further demarcate sections and whitespace, we've added some nice supportive visuals to the layout.
• And don't forget the stuff most of us never see! Browser text resizing and print styles have been optimised.
• Cross browser support: the template has been tested in firefox, opera, safari, ie6 and ie7.