Chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis.
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• Quipsologies, is a division of UnderConsideration, chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis.
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UnderConsideration is a graphic design enterprise that runs a network of blogs, publishes books, organizes live events, and designs for clients.
online
Brand New / Displaying opinions, and focusing solely, on corporate and brand identity work.
FPO (For Print Only) / Celebrating the reality that print is not dead by showcasing the most compelling printed projects.
Brand New Classroom / Providing a space for critique and opinions on student identity work.
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.
publishing
Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work / 2010, self-published.
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.
live events
2010 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.
graphic design
Department of Design / Designing corporate and brand identities and full development of printed and digital matter for clients.
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Washed Up, a photo series by Alejandro Duran who has collected plastic detritus that has “washed ashore from forty-two nations on six continents” onto the shores of Sian Ka’an, Mexico’s largest federally-protected reserve. Beautiful yet very sad.
08.23.2011
Inker Linker, a fabulously-designed open directory for printers to list their services. Brought to you by Jessica Hische.
08.23.2011
Solitaire Win by Skrekkogle is “a three dimensional sculpture of the old Windows game ‘Solitaire’.” This is so badass and sarcastic. I love it.
08.22.2011
A twist in realism - artist Alexa Meade covers her subjects and objects in acrylic paint, creating surreal painted photographs.
08.22.2011
Beautiful illustrated alphabet by Jakub Konvica inspired by Karel Hynek Mácha’s poem May.
08.20.2011
After evaluating all of this year’s new baseball-related logos, Ballpark Digest has named the Joliet Slammers logo by Dan Simon of Louisville’s Studio Simon “2011 Logo of the Year.”
08.19.2011
Nice modernized-vintage photos by Portuguese photographer, Ana Dias. Why does summer have to end?
08.19.2011
It’s Almost is a clever web application where you can create a countdown for anything you want in however long you want. Built by Type/Code.
08.19.2011
