The graphic design and website design blog of Phases Design Studio in Denver, CO

Unilever, multinational purveyor of food and household cleaning products, has placed GPS devices inside boxes of their Omo brand laundry detergent as part of their new marketing campaign. The “Try Something New Promotion,” gives Brazilian Omo users the opportunity to win a video camera and a family outing.

One of our favorite branding partners, Ann Lillie of Vine Street Communications, is helping to run a branding workshop at the Denver Athletic Club for local small businesses who need a hands-on tutorial to help put their brand over the top.

Choosing a typeface is one of the most challenging and enjoyable aspects of web design for Denver branding firm founder and all around typegeek Kandra Churchwell. Here are 5 tips to help you choose and effective one for your web design project.

In this week’s Week Links, we look at typography; the good, the bad, the ugly. We meet the man behind the Worst. Font. Ever. We learn about the history of typography, the difference between typefaces and fonts, and visit a blog with a great bad fonts post and an illegible title.

In a piece on the relative strength of credit unions through the financial crisis, and the move your money local movement, a blogger at the Huffington Post interviewed a Phases client – Westerra Credit Union – and linked to one of the ads we created for them.