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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Department of Design / Designing corporate and brand identities and full development of printed and digital matter for clients.
Opinion BY Armin
It’s Good to be the King
Established in 2003, King is one of the leaders in cross-platform, casual, social games with 150 exclusive titles available in 14 languages and has grown to become the second largest developer — behind powerhouse Zynga — of games on Facebook and a leader in mobile with over 108 million monthly players generating over 12 billion game plays per month. Interestingly, according to their advertising page, 75% of their players are women and 70% have children. King has offices in London, Stockholm, Barcelona, Bucharest, Hamburg, Malta, Malmo and San Francisco. Today, King introduced a new identity designed by London-based venturethree.
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DATE: Mar.27.2013
POSTED BY: ArminCATEGORY: Entertainment COMMENTS:
TAGS: gaming, orange, script, venturethree,
Friday Likes BY Armin
Friday Likes 17
It’s been a few weeks since I last did this and it’s back with a bang. Two superb eye candy pieces sandwich a more conservative piece with work from Russia, Canada, and the USofA.
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DATE: Sep.21.2012POSTED BY: ArminCATEGORY: Friday Likes COMMENTS:
TAGS: apparel, gaming, non-profit, russia, toronto,
A B-Side BY Armin
Iplay
Established in as Oberon Media, Iplay, which takes its new corporate name from its consumer online portal, is an interactive games marketplace and a “multi-platform casual games company” providing distribution of interactive game entertainment for such partners as Microsoft, Yahoo and AT&T. The new logo, designed by Berkeley, CA-based Thermostat represents “[Content], curation and connectivity with an orbiting group of letter Is that expresses connectivity. We use the RGB color spectrum graphically to represent all digital media content and curation by how the shapes overlap and form a new shape of a play button in the center.” A few application images below (or after the jump).
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DATE: Aug.13.2012POSTED BY: ArminCATEGORY: Technology The B-Side COMMENTS:
Books about logo design, the designers that create them and the meaning of branding.
