NEWS ARCHIVE
May 2008
ADAA
Armin will be a judge in this year’s Adobe Design Achievement Awards.
April 2008
Opposites Attract ’08
A four-part series programmed by UnderConsideration and hosted by the Art Directors Club, OA’08 brings together designers for moderated conversation on what sets them apart that brings them together.
Dejando Huella 11
Armin spoke at the 11th edition of Dejando Huella, a design conference with lectures and workshops celebrated in the city of Queretaro, Mexico.
Dyslexflix
A new adventure, outside the confines of design, for UnderConsideration: Dyslexflix: Recommending Wrong.
UC.DOD Updates
A properly and fully functional web site for the Department of Design is now operating.
March 2008
Fuel
Armin was the keynote speaker at the AIGA Detroit Student Portfolio Review 2008, hosted by Eastern Michigan University.
October 2007
UC.DOD Opens
UnderConsideration now operates its Department of Design to serve clients and their myriad needs, as well as to develop its own design requirements.
July 2007
Triennial’s Last Days
Last chance, before another three years have to go by. Stop by the Cooper-Hewitt before July 29 to catch the Triennial and spot Speak Up.
UCDA Conference
Armin will be speaking at the 2007 UCDA Design Conference in Toronto, Canada.
May 2007
3 x 3 = Good Advertising
With four web sites running on all internet cylinders through UnderConsideration, we have established an exclusive advertising program, dubbed 3 x 3, that guarantees 33% of all page impressions. Interested? Intrigued? Inquire.
April 2007
The Word It Book
After almost a year of designing and producing, The Word It Book: Speak Up presents a gallery of interpreted words published by HOW Books is now shipping. And, because we like you so much, we have put together a behind-the-scenes look of some of our favorite photos.
February 2007
Art Directors Club Judging
Bryony served on the jury for the Art Directors Club 86th Annual Awards in the Graphic Design category.
Type Directors Club Judging
Armin served on the jury for the Type Directors Club TDC53 competition.
January 2007
Quipsologies
Yet one more notch in UnderConsideration's on-line belt: Quipsologies. A site devoted to finding the most interesting and relevant bits as they relate to design. Design community-at-large literally welcome to contribute.
HOW Conference
Armin will be speaking at the 2007 HOW Conference in Atlanta, GA.
December 2006
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial
From December 8, 2006 until July 29, 2007 Speak Up will reside in the halls of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum as part of its third triennial, Design Life Now. A live comment feed — programmed by House of Pretty — welcomes museum dwellers to the world of Speak Up.
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[ Pictures: 1, 2, 3, 4 ]
New York’s High Priority
Starting in November and ending in December, Speak Up ran a contest to design the High Priority illustration in the year-end double issue of New York magazine. 200-plus entries later, Spencer Fruhling won the contest with his ode to fast food establishements, earning him $500 and a spot — usually reserved, by invitation only, for some of the best designers and illustrators across the globe — in the popular section of the magazine.
November 2006
The Word It Book
Content and design is finished for The Word It Book: Speak Up Presents a Gallery of Interpreted Words to be released in Spring 2007.
Brand New
UnderConsideration launches its third major web site, Brand New. This one devoted to identity work. All the time.
STEP 100
Armin was a judge for the arduous STEP 100 Show by STEP Inside Design magazine, along with Robynne Raye of Modern Dog, Sam Shelton of Kinetik, Stefan Bucher of 344 Design and Bart Crosby of Crosby & Associates.
October 2006
Portfolio Center Seminar
Armin spoke about UnderConsideration, and the graphic ups and downs of his career on October 19 at Portfolio Center in Atlanta, GA.
LGDA, The 100 Show
Bryony was a judge in The 100 Show of the Louisville Graphic Design Association along with Dave Taylor of Planet Propaganda and Dustin Summers of The Heads of State.
September 2006
Teachme3, Venice, Italy
Bryony and Armin participated in a panel, titled “Design blogs: scrivere di design” [Design Blogs: Writing about Design], for Università Iuav di Venezia’s Teachme3: Comunicare l’oggetto conference in Venice, Italy on September 30, 2006.
School of Visual Arts
Bryony and Armin have joined the faculty of the undergraduate design program at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where they jointly impart the portfolio class for fourth-year students.
July 2006
Portfolio Center Seminar
Bryony spoke about UnderConsideration on July 4 at Portfolio Center in Atlanta, GA.
April 2006
AIGA Raleigh
Bryony spoke — she in person, while Armin joined via voice iChat from Brooklyn — about UnderConsideration on April 20 at the AIGA Raleigh chapter.
March 2006
National Design Triennial
Speak Up has been selected for the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s third National Design Triennial, “Design Life Now”.
September 2005
The design encyclopedia
The second major initiative by UnderConsideration launches. The design encyclopedia is a wiki-based, user-built encyclopedia devoted to design.
Step Inside Design
Along with Design Observer and Be A Design Group, Speak Up was featured in Jude Stewart’s Oz Speaks article for the September/October issue of Step magazine.
June 2005
HOW Design Conference
For the 15th annual HOW Design Conference in Chicago, IL, Armin Vit participated in a blog panel moderated by Steven Heller. He was also a contestant in Ironic Chef where he beat the unsuspecting competitors.
November 2004
The Push Pin Influence
New York’s AIGA chapter has gathered three designers, among them Armin Vit, who will talk about the influence that Push Pin has had over their professional path. The Push Pin Influence will feature Seymour Chwast, Milton Glaser, Noreen Morioka, Paula Scher and Martin Venezky and will be moderated by Steven Heller.
Thinking with Type
In Ellen Lupton’s new book, Thinking with Type, published by Princeton Architectural Press, Speak Up is highlighted as a positive example of web hierarchy.
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September 2004
UnderConsideration Relocates
Leaving lovely (but windy) Chicago behind, UnderConsideration and Speak Up have relocated to New York.
July 2004
TypeCon
For TypeCon 2004 in San Francisco, Armin Vit presents If you build it will they use it? (And will they like it?). A talk featuring thirty minutes of footage shot in the streets of Chicago where he asks passersby their opinion on certain typefaces.
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[ Snippet from Gotham, 1.7 Mb ]
Speak Up in the Press
- Communication Arts, Web Watch, Editors, September/October 2004
- Communication Arts, Resources, Editors, July 2004
- Communication Arts, Resources, Editors, July 2004
June 2004
Brand Identity & Package Design
Armin Vit speaks at the Brand Identity & Package Design conference in New York on June 23rd. His concluding session, titled Don't Forget About Graphic Design (And how to Embrace Criticism), reviews major corporate rebrandings from the past years.
May 2004
Emigre Interview
Emigre 66, Nudging Graphic Design, features an interview by Rudy VanderLans with Speak Up founder Armin Vit.
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[ Pictures: 1, 2 ]
Speak Up in the Press
In one form or another, good and bad, Speak Up has been mentioned in the following:
- HOW, Designers + Internet: Forums, Doug White, June 2004
- Print, Blog Me, Blog Me Not, Steve Heller, May/June 2004
- Emigre 66, Introduction by Rudy VanderLans, Dumb Ideas by Mr. Keedy, Castles Made of Sand by Lorraine Wild, Princeton Architectural Press, 2004.
- I.D., Blog Wild, Colin Berry, May 2004
- Communication Arts, The Portfolio That Puts You In Control, Ellen Shapiro, March/April 2004
- Communication Arts, Conference Review, Anne Telford, January/February 2004
- HOW, Designers + Internet: Forums, Doug White, June 2004
- Print, Blog Me, Blog Me Not, Steve Heller, May/June 2004
- Emigre 66, Introduction by Rudy VanderLans, Dumb Ideas by Mr. Keedy, Castles Made of Sand by Lorraine Wild, Princeton Architectural Press, 2004.
- I.D., Blog Wild, Colin Berry, May 2004
- Communication Arts, The Portfolio That Puts You In Control, Ellen Shapiro, March/April 2004
- Communication Arts, Conference Review, Anne Telford, January/February 2004
March 2004
The 5W’s of Speak Up
Speak Up is featured in the April/March issue of STEP inside design in their column 5W’s. The article is written by Speak Up founder Armin Vit aided by quotes from readers’ and participants’ own 5W’s.
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February 2004
AIGA @ Marwen Workshop
For AIGA’s first-ever workshop at Marwen, UnderConsideration was invited to participate.
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Portfolio Center Workshops
UnderConsideration veers off Peachtree Street to impart a couple of workshops.
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Speak Up Redesigns
A new structure provides room to grow while a revision to the design improves usability and readability. Michael Clark provides his handlettering prowess to create the new identity for Speak Up.
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