Online
- FPO (For Print Only) / Celebrating the reality that print is not dead by showcasing the most compelling printed projects.
- Art of the Menu / Cataloguing the underrated creativity of menus from around the world.
- Quipsologies / Chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis.
- Speak Up (2002 – 2009) / Discussing, and looking for, what is relevant in, and the relevance of, graphic design. Archives Only.
- Word It (2003 – 2010) / Encouraging creative diversity in the community through monthly, one-word challenges. Archives Only.
- Brand New Classroom (2010 – 2011) / Providing a space for critique and opinions on student identity work. Archives Only.
Publishing
- The 2010 Brand New Awards / 2011, self-published.
- Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work / 2010, self-published.
Events & Judged Competitions
- Brand New Conference / A one-day event on the development of corporate and brand identity projects by some of today’s most active and influential practitioners from around the world.
- Brand New Awards / Celebrating the best identity work produced around the world.
- FPO Awards / Celebrating the best print work from around the world.
Writing
- Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design / 2009, Rockport.
- Women of Design: Influence and Inspiration from the Original Trailblazers to the New Groundbreakers / 2008, HOW Books.
- The Word It Book: Speak Up Presents a Gallery of Interpreted Words / 2007, HOW Books.
Graphic Design
- Department of Design / Designing corporate and brand identities and full development of printed and digital matter for clients.
Friday Likes BY Armin
Friday Likes 43
Today we go full on Nordic with firms and clients from Denmark and Norway and an aesthetic that you just can’t get either on this side of the pond or even in other parts of that side of the pond. What I’m trying to say: They got serious design skills up there.
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DATE: May.03.2013
POSTED BY: ArminCATEGORY: Friday Likes COMMENTS:
Friday Likes BY Armin
Friday Likes 42
All Likes stroke my fancy today. Wait… that sounds terrible. But you get the point.
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DATE: Apr.26.2013POSTED BY: ArminCATEGORY: Friday Likes COMMENTS:
TAGS: denmark, florida, restaurant, stroke, sweden,
Opinion by Simon Wennberg Posted BY Brand New
Danish Broadcasting: Consistent much?
Known to all Danes simply as DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation is the official English name for Denmark’s public broadcaster. Founded in 1925 to operate the radio monopoly, it extended into television in 1951 when it launched Denmark’s first — and, for many decades, the only — TV network. Today it operates six national TV networks, ten national radio networks, eleven regional stations and a series of related services. This year DR is making major changes to its schedules and overhauling some of its TV channels and in January it revealed a refined logo as part of a new identity system designed mostly done in-house, spearheaded by Anders Thulin, DR’s design editor, who, along with typographer Elias Stenalt Werner created the new corporate logo, while custom typography for service logos was created with Copenhagen-based Kontrapunkt. In-house agency DR Design drew up guidelines and applied the new identity system for various media.
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DATE: Mar.06.2013POSTED BY: Brand NewCATEGORY: Entertainment COMMENTS:
TAGS: denmark, extended, logo system,
Opinion BY Armin
Not Your Parents’ Librarians
With campuses in Copenhagen and Aalborg in Denmark, the Informationsvidenskabelige Akademi (IVA for short and “The Royal School of Library and Information Science” for English) serves around 1,000 students ranging from undergraduates to PhD candidates in the field of library and information sciences and it operates under the Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs. Facing the challenge of being considered behind the times, the school recently changed to its current name from the previously old-fashioned moniker of Danmarks Biblioteksskole (Danish Library School) and introduced a complete new identity by Danish studio Make.
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DATE: Dec.02.2010POSTED BY: ArminCATEGORY: Education COMMENTS:
TAGS: denmark, flexible identity, icon, make,
Books about logo design, the designers that create them and the meaning of branding.
