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GRAPHIC DESIGN & BRANDING
Archived writing from my design blog 2010 - 2012 (RIP).
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Archived writing from my design blog 2010 - 2012 (RIP).
The old fashioned GIF has had something of a resurgance in my inbox. The charmingly retro animations keep popping up in promotional emails, like the one above from CB2. I like getting them; they're engagaing and add a twist of humor and whimsy to ...
Occupy Design, a website out of San Francisco, attempts to streamline the visual identity of OWS by creating "freely available visual tools around a common graphic language to unite the 99%." The site offers high res graphics for download, includi...
Chip Kidd breaks down his cover and book design for Haruki Murakami's latest novel 1Q84.
Even though it was clear Steve Jobs was battling severe health problems, I was still shocked when I learned that he died yesterday. I didn't anticipate feeling such a great sense of loss at his passing. Aside from the recaps of Jobs' many achievem...
??? In the International Herald Tribune, Alice Rawsthorn asks, "Can Anybody Be a Designer?" a question inspired by a crop of current exhibitions which present "the concept of design as a fluid, instinctive process, open to everyone..." Read her arti...
Clever riff on the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster???sadly available to Brits only at Hooper and Shaw in Cornwall. Tip of the hat to Remodelista Daily.
Urbanized, the latest from documentarian Gary Hustwit (director of Helvetica and Objectified), will be released in November. Poster design by Build.
I grew up in Philadelphia with an art-loving father, who frequently brought me ("dragged" would have been my verb of choice at the time) to the Barnes Foundation. In the late 80s, early 90s, the Barnes collection hadn't yet reached the height of i...
Most likely, Diego Stocco will either inspire you or make you feel like a totally boring and uncreative slug. As a composer/musician, his instruments of choice have included a tree, sand, a piano on fire and the contents of his local drycleaners, ...
Last Christmas, I discovered a Preserve toothbrush in my stocking. I can get close-minded when it comes to changing my routine but this arrived at a perfect moment; I had already concluded that all non-electric toothbrushes work basically the same...
Last month's National Geographic Photo Journal section featured a selection of photographs taken by Murray Fredricks over the course of several annual trips to Lake Eyre, a "flat, arid salt sink in Australia with only the horizon to define its 3,7...
While browsing the Interwebs, I came across the Digital Time-Lapse Camera from Photojojo. Its sole purpose is to take digital time-lapse video, with settings for 1 minute, 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours or 24 hours, and is supposedly hardy...
Update! Postcardly has changed its template system so square photos will not be cropped. Instagram lovers like myself can now Postcardly away knowing our precious compositions will be replicated in full, as in the example above. See the comments s...
It's T-less than two weeks until the 2012 Presidential election and with the candidates basically tied in the polls, Undecided Voters are having their quadrennial moment. I have never actually met an Undecided Voter???though I suspect that has to do...