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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.

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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.

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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.

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by armin

These dishes by Duncan Shotton are specifically designed for soy sauce as it naturally creates a gradient in shallow depths, and fills in the 3D shapes.

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11.28.2016

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by armin

Arrival’s production designers explain the logic behind the “written” alphabet of the movie’s aliens.

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11.28.2016

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by diane zerr

Ok Go is back at it again with another fun music video, One Moment.

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11.23.2016

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The Awesomer

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by doug bartow

London’s new Design Museum opens tomorrow: Everything you need to know about the new building.

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11.23.2016

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by james i bowie

On the occasion of Monday night’s Raiders-Texans game in Mexico City, the National Football League commissioned Mexican artists to reimagine the helmets of all 32 league teams.

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11.21.2016

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by diane zerr

Molly and her partner Teddy Blanks created emojis featuring 40 faces from Old Masters Paintings.

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11.21.2016

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Swiss Miss

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by ricardo cordoba

Comp, a redesign of the classic composition notebook, by Aron Fay—currently on Kickstarter. Read about Fay’s research into the history of the composition book here.

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11.21.2016

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AIGA Eye on Design

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by armin

We will be on a rare family vacation all of this week so there will be little to no posts from me until next Monday, November 28. Happy Thanksgiving to anyone who celebrates it or at least gets the day off.

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11.21.2016

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by ricardo cordoba

Triboro Design, the Brooklyn-based studio which had previously created a one-color version of Massimo Vignelli’s NYC Subway map, has now issued “Wrong Color”posters of the same map, using “only the most inappropriate colors” — which turn out to be combinations of CMY (cyan, magenta, and yellow) and RGBK (red, green, blue, and black).

Related Quip:
Vol. 47 | No. 120

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11.18.2016

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by ricardo cordoba

New reissue from designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth, a.k.a. Standards Manual: a facsimile of the standards manual for the symbol of the U.S.A.’s Bicentennial, designed by Bruce Blackburn in 1974. (While you’re at it, check out their website, which also offers their earlier editions: facsimiles of the 1975 NASA Graphics Standards Manual and the 1970 New York City Transit Authority’s Graphics Standards Manual.)

Related Quips:
Vol. 105 | No. 10
Vol. 93 | No. 35

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11.18.2016

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