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BOOK REVIEWS

The Anatomy of Design: Uncovering the Influences and Inspirations in Modern Graphic Design / Postmodern Bible Stories / Fresh Dialogue 6: Friendly Fire / Typography 26 / Dialogue: Relationships In Graphic Design / The Face of Human Rights / D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself / Hillman Curtis on Creating Short Films for the Web / This Ain't No Disco: New Wave Album Covers / Robert Brownjohn: Sex And Typography / More Paperwork / Evil Doesn't Live Here: Posters of the Bosnian War / Freitag: Individual Recycled Freeway Bags / Cipe Pineles: Two Remembrances / Fresh Dialogue Five / Design Research / America (The Book) / Graphic Agitation 1 and 2 / The Bauhaus Ideal: Then and Now / How to Grow as a Graphic Designer / Rethink Redesign Reconstruct / Grid Systems / House Industries / Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility / False Flat / Zing / They Say They Want a Revolution: What Marketers Need to Know as Consumers Take Control / Make it Bigger / Thinking with Type / Profile: Pentagram Design / Changing Faces / Designing for People / Supermarket / Singing to the Deaf / 20th Century Type, New and Revised Edition / Citizen Brand / Peace: 100 Ideas / The Project 50 (Reinventing Work) / The Culting of Brands: When Customers Become True Believers / The Designer’s Guide to Astounding Photoshop Effects / Nozone IX : EMPIRE / H.C. Ericson: Corpus / Logo, Font & Lettering Bible / Creating the Perfect Design Brief / Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter / Dot Dot Dot #7 / Fresh Dialogue 3 & 4 / No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism / karlssonwilker inc.'s tellmewhy: The First 24 Months of a New York Design Company / The Illustrated Voice by Craig frazier / Kyle Cooper by Andrea Codrington / Project M — Vol. 1 / Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Progressive Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century by Steve Heller / I am Almost Always Hungry by Cahan & Associates / The Substance of Style by Virginia Postrel

BOOK CLUB
BRANDING AND IDENTITY

Let the (Logo) Games Begin / Flexible Consistency, Consistent Flexibility / The Ritzilhouette / The Hardest Working Presidential Candidate Logo / 100 Unused Logos and What they Reveal about my Design Inclinations / London, How do I Hate Thee? Let me Count the Ways, 1, 2… 2012 / Nissan and the Black Experience / Cisco: The Bridge between the Old and the New / The Handy Reference Guide to Corporate Identity — Revised. / Cooperless Shoesource, or, The Rebranding that Finally Pushed me Over the Edge / Recent Rebrandings 13: All FutureBrand / Recent Rebrandings 12 / Recent Rebrandings 11: Landor Landor Landor / Recent Rebrandings 10 / Recent Rebrandings 9 / Recent Rebrandings 8 / Paul Rand’s Final Logo Part 2Doug Evans + Partners / And… Logo Action! / “Big Yellow”: More Curves, Less Yellow / AIGA: It’s Just a Name / AT&T Says Bye-bye to Saul Bass / Paul Rand’s Final Logo? / Quark Reloaded / Fitting In / Recent Rebrandings 7: Television / Brand Loyalty? / Recent Rebrandings 6: Mergers / Recent Rebrandings 5: Food & Beverage / Recent Rebrandings 4: Financial Services / Endorsements / A new New School / And the Winner is … / DC Comics Sports New Logo / Another Pretty FaceVISA Rebrands / throwing rocks / Recent Rebrandings / Your Page in the Business Advice Book / Santa™ / Seven Hundred F***ing Dollars / Duck a l’brand / Recent Rebrandings / Warning: Pop Culture Appropriates Warning / Welcome to Generation i / You’ve Got New Logo! / Recent Rebrandings / Hip, Hip… Kay! / GE: the Great Escape / Why, Why, Y? / Flip the Logo, who Cares? / TBS is Laughing Matter / Our Own Worst Clients* / A More United United Way / Unilever: 25 Times Friendlier / Where Do Standards Manuals Go When They Die? / NYC 2012 / Eye, Travel Experts Rebrand / Google, Googled, Googling, Googleth… / Pantone: 3 Statements, 3 Questions / Absolut Time / Generation Brand / The secret power of the Blue Square / Sensitive Everywhere / Logo Drawdown / Sporting Design / Love is in the Air / Pretty Hammers / The Ligaturization of Sony / a nickel…two dimes… / Chuck does Halloween / Newest Lee Brand / The Swoosh: Symbol Beyond Redemption? / MoMA Revamps their Logo / VH1: Behind the Logo / 7up — Flippin’ it: dnL / The Next Big Thing / iTunes Music Store vs. BuyMusic.com / Decline in US Brand Power? / Apple — The Ultimate Brand Promise? / RE/MAX, Re/do Time? / Good/Bad Consumer Brands / Advertising Agency vs. Branding Consultancy / Hewlett-Packard: Caught Between a Logo and a Hard Place? / Clean up Aisle 5 - Walgreens Needs New Logo / Stock Photo Rebranding Month / The Sound of Branding / UPS Says Bye-bye to Rand / Designer’s Guide to Brand Strategy / The Few. The Proud. The Designed. / Identity Standards / What is a Brand? / Hiding Behind New Logo? / Repurposed Logo / Sports Branding / Logos Gone Bad / Different Identities

BUSINESS
BUSINESS ARTICLES
CRITIQUE

Hancock: A Poster Critique / iNeed: Technology, Theft, and Desire? / If you can Read this URL you are Driving too Close / Sales Copy Gone Wild / Visual Literacy and the International Male Image / On “Just”, Awesomeness, and ™ / Bookmarkography: How Things Fall Apart / Money should Stink / Wine in a what? / If a Tree Falls in Times Square and Nobody Notices, have Designers Failed? / Globalization’s Unspoken Costs: A Response to Christopher Liechty / The Instrument: Telescreen in the Briefing Room / A G who Believed Itself to be a Fish / W[h]ither The Conference? / What Type Are You? / Ready, aim, fire! / Designers, heal thyselves / ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION Design Observer Observed / Wartime Web: The Military Escalates Its Online Presence / Careful Design / Are We That Boring? / The Dude Abides / Dear Emigre, Tag, you are Dead! / Ferocious Kitty-cats / Dangling Listicles / Design the Vote / AIGA National Conference Focused Session: Who Will Lead Design In The 21st Century? / AIGA National Conference: The Future / AIGA National Conference: A Non-Review / AIGA National Conference: Review Part II / AIGA National Conference: Review Part I / Burning Bridges and Building Community / “Progress” in Current On-Air Graphics / CritiqueThe Alphabet / Industrial Design and Business / Design Equals WritingOr, a Rough Reaction to the Quiet Excitement Generated by the Publication of David Barringer’s American Mutt / Room Service, Anyone? / Posterchild / MOVE — But, Where? / Jenny Craig or Bust / This Way to the Excess / MTV2: New Dog, Old Tricks? / The Meaning is The Use / Why Awareness is not Enough / Target: Design For All? / Triage / The Yellow Ruth / 2004’s Best & Worst / Speak Up Poster Critique › 121-153 / Speak Up Poster Critique › 91-120 / Speak Up Poster Critique › 61-90 / Speak Up Poster Critique › 31-60 / Speak Up Poster Critique › 01-30 / ’Til We Meet Again / CD Packaging, I Knew Ye Well / Gain Vision, Gain Value / Massive PostPart 4 / Massive PostPart 3 / Massive PostPart 2 / Massive PostPart 1 / It’s All About the Money / State of the State of the Protest / Food Fight / Hazardous Freedom / Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll… and Print? / Emigre 66 › Mute / Emigre 66 › No More Rules / Hell, Maybe! / Emigre 66 › Dumb Ideas / Emigre 66 › Preface / Fat Fight / A Different Kind of Award / What are we Doing? / Shelves of Inspiration / Skin Deep / A Branded Education / The Icky Mouse Club / Design: Alive and Well, and Living in the Midwest / From Objects to Experiences / Uni ted / Design of the year? / Review - The Power of Design Part V / Thanks AIGA / Review - The Power of Design Part IV / What Happens Next? / welcome to the ranks, private. / Review - The Power of Design Part III / Review — The Power of Design Part II / Review — The Power of Design Part I / AIGA Conference — Blow by Blow / Book Cover Reviews, Reviewed! / The Emperor’s New Tailor / seriouSeries No. 1 — Rick Valicenti / Even God Needs a Masthead / Does Your Kid Have Good Taste? / Design Clichés / Adplacers / Green means…stop? / Window Maximizing. How Rude! / New Creative Zine: Idanda / AIGA L.A. Pays Homage to ‘92 Riots / Bringing Why to Life / Gigposters, Good Gigs? / Making the Invisible Visible / Got Change for a Twenty? / AIGA: Listen Up / mrowr! / a brief, albeit amusing, history of desktop publishing / The Dangers Humour of Poor Information Graphics / AIGA Chicago Incite/Insight Series / Dusting Off a Classic / Penguin Classics’ new look / HOW Online Finally Redesigned / Catchy titles / Not so Kinky / News You can Read / Design’s Top 100 - Part 2 / The Art of Graphic Wit / Brand Council / Design’s Top 100 / Interactive Should Not Translate to Poor Design / …Just a Thought / Loglobalization / Cool? / it’s a Wide World After All / One Look for All / Face Lifts / Music by Design - CD vs Vinyl / Music by Design / Slow Company / Shelf Presence / 18 and Counting

DESIGNER / DESIGN FIRM PROFILE
DESIGN ACADEMICS
DISCUSSION

Typo Terror / The Great Leap Forward / A Letter to President-Elect Obama from a Young Designer / The Visual Perils of Graphic Design History / Wanted: Fierce Graphic Designers / Glide’08: The Infrastructure of the Web as Design Education / Design Cities: Where you at? / A Case for Pink / Judging Books by their Covers and Movies by their Posters / Getting Proper Feedback from Clients / Dear Mr. Bierut, / Interestingly Trite / The Video Flipthrough is the New Finger Hold / Pay Attention and Give a Shit / The Wall that Lou Dorfsman Built / See Jane Die / Booksourcing: Design Books / To Collaborate, or Not to Collaborate / Booksourcing: Identity / Booksourcing: Magazines / Booksourcing: Books / Upgrade my Nation / Booksourcing: Packaging / Booksourcing: Posters / You’ve Got Letter / The Graphic Manipulator / Got Rituals? / Jury Duty / Landmark Web Sites, Where Art Thou? / The Mommy Track: Six Months In / Up Next for AIGA: Next and 2015 / The Ultimate Brand Experience from the Unlikeliest Brand: D’oh!Or, Overanalyzing The Simpsons / Dark and Fleshy: The Color of Top Grossing Movies / The Perils of “Designed by Committee” as a Pejorative / Doing What Matters / Typography, The Good and The Evil / The Contest as Fuel for Creativity / Intellectual Property, Ripoffs, And What Have You / Crouching Towards Bethlehem / Graphic Designer vs./and/or Mom / They Might (Not) Be Giants / Thoughts on Portfolios from Someone Making One / Speak Up: Now What? / The Siren Song of the Personal Project / Public Surveillance? / Does Design Matter in a Big Museum? / Game On: The Battle of White and Black / Model Transformation / Endangered Culture: New Orleans’ Mardi Gras Indians / Dealing with “Women” Part I: The Rant / Avon, Mary Kay, Tupperware, Levi's, MTV and YouTube: A Continuum of Community / The Half Full / 21: The Magic Number / D.I.F.Y. / Here. Not Anywhere Else. / Chasing the Perfect part 1.1 / Going Postal / Design vs. Designers / Contrast in the News / The David Bowie Rules / Drowned Alive: Performance Art or Performance Stunt? / Thinking vs. Feeling / The Printer’s Devil’s Dictionary / Culture of the Quick / Those Pesky, Somewhat Dreaded, Utterly Irrestistable Four Things / Computer = Fart, or Digital Immersion Is Not Design / Logo-Licious or Lame?Fortune Decides / The m5 Optimistic Globalization / Seeing Red (hardly) / I’ve got dust in my eyes… / Seeing Instead of Reading? / Pizza Flyers: The Height of Good Graphic Design? / Attack of the blogs! / Still Going, and Going, and…. / Is God Really In The Details? / Test for Hire / To Shop or Not To Shop / No Work? No Problem. Part II: Distinguishing Yourself / Designimator: Fact or Fiction? / Almighty Designer, The / Tiger: Love It, Reinstall Panther, or Buy More RAM (formerly Tiger: Love It or Hate It) / on-again-off-again revolving door / Surviving Business Travel / The creative works of General Motors / Flip-flops or Oxfords? / It Seems As Though The Whole World Is Reading Today / Redesigning A Design Magazine / I’m with Stupid / Moving On / Is graphic design enough for a lifetime? / Designer Awards / what are words worth? / It Is So Amazing Here / Why the Y? / The End of the World as we Know it? / critique? / Opportunity or Opportunistic? / The Sublime and Ridiculous / Love ’em or hate ’em / 42. / The Secret Life of our Designs / Design Metrics / 15 minutes at 300 degrees / You’ve got to serve someone / Design Leadership / $.75 per minute / Clients: The Good, The Bad & the Ugly / What do you do? / Economic Temperature Check / Portland Posters / Focus Group Test / Y’know… for da kids / My First Love / “Graphic” Design? / It’s All About Options / A Plea for Stickers / Sweetheart, let me tell you a story… / Task a Minute / Up Next: Reviving Late 1990s Buzzwords / Nothing New Under the Sun / What is Design? / The “C” word / To Hell with Mentoring / The Design of Space / Neither Rain, nor Sleet / Pornography Perils / You Read Best what you (don’t) Read Most / Beyond the Looking Glass / Never Good Enough / We Are You? / Up Front / In Last Place? / That Sound You Hear Sucking / Design is for the Rich / Designer on Designer / In Search of Authenticity / The Grass is Always Greener… / AIGA Leadership Retreat - St. Louis / Believing the Good in Brands / Always a Student / Truth Before Trend / World Events and Creative Juices / Looking in the Mirror and Flexing / How Do You Do It? / Armin Vit’s Recliner of Rage / Canvas Trends / Should Graduates Start Their Own Businesses? / Does Evil Empire Equal Poor Design?Is New Automatically Bad?Are we Making Sense? / tortilla flats / Hiring Young, Recent Graduates — Why or Why Not? / my, how things change / the big bang / Spectrum Scheming / Designer Wages and Cost of Living / Where do Trends Begin? / Presidential Candidate, Graphic Design, Grassroots… Right on! / CEOC, MD, VP, JD, SCD, ED… / Is Communication still a Viable Communication Method? / Ah HA! Success! / Logo, Company Name, Slogan, Name, Title, Address, Phone, Fax, Cel, Email, Web Address / Those Who Can, Teach / Design and the Written Word / Can You Have a Life? / Clients. / The Web isn’t Print: A Reminder / Design Types / A Verb or a Noun? / Failure is Not an Option! / Designspeak / Risky Business / my precioussssssss / What if… We Ran the Show? / Lowest Common Decorator / you want fries with that? / Es el Diseño Gröfico Universal? / Are There Too Many Of Us? / Ergo / Thinking the Way we Think / Do Non-selected Comps go to Heaven or Hell? / Pinned Down / Where’s the Love? / Under the Microscope / Mayflies / Open to Interpretation? / 20/20 / Who Made the Marks? / Taking Credit / Unseen Things / My, That’s A Very Large Book You Have There / Designers’ Office Fetish / Designer Cars / för thösë äböüt tö röck… / Futurism / Beg, Borrow and Steal / The Right Answer / The Power of Election Design? / The Graphic Designer Handbook / Why (objectively) are you a Graphic Designer? / How ’bout them Awards? / What Can You Do? / Are the Ladies in the House? / Design is Newsweekworthy / Covered-up Quiz / (pre) The Power of Design / The Process of Design / “When did you first fall in love with hip-hop?” / hunting the horny backed toad / Any Ballot Designers in the House? / To Spec or not to Spec? / Midlife Crisis — Does it Affect Designers? / All About The Jacksons (Not Those Jacksons) / Nobody Did it Better / B.U.G. (Big Urban Game) / Better Living Through QuarkXPress / Designers for Democracy? / What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Designers Love Conferences / What do brands mean to you? / Graphic Design now sold on Ebay / All You Need is Fame / Confess and Be Absolved / Graphic Design Can Prevent Hunger / The Diversity of Design / What’s Wrong with Speak Up? / How to Apply Bad Logos / Design Regrets / “Aesthetics is the killer app.” / Design Speak / Couching a Critique / Asking the Tough Questions / Profiles in Courage / Summer Movies / Hell No — Reviewed / Dream Project / Is the Dark Side Prevailing? / Multiple Design Options: Should Clients Be the One to Choose? / Help for “Design Help” / Your Favorite Designer / To Board or not to Board? / If I Were Famous… / Plays Well With Others / AIGA: Sold Out / Dept. of Maniacal Obsessiveness / What Makes a Graphic Designer? / Happy Earth Day ’03 / is kaletra right for you? / Emigre No. 64—“Rant” / All the Ladies in the House say “Yeah” / Where do you Draw the Line? / War: “Apologies to…” / Does Technology Dictate Trends? / Your First Logo / Why is design important? / News Channels Rely on Stars / Usability Question / International Women’s Day / Career Switcharoo / Big. Small. You. / And the Oscar Goes to… / Questions for Ellen Lupton / Graphic Design vs. Art / Leaving a Job / Showmanship Over Craftsmanship? / The Allure of Paper / Design vs. Advertising / Celebrity = Automatic “Oooh-Ah” Factor? / From Design to Designing / Fonts on Your Desktop / A New Year / Print or Web? or Both? / ‘Tis the Season for Catalog Design / Role Reversal / Designer’s Price Tag / Top 10 Records of 2002 / More Inspiration / Time Will Tell / Greetings From Seattle / Experimental / The Importance of Graphic Design / Who Do(n’t) You Love? / Walker / Coffee Table Books / Recycling Ideas / Design by Numbers / Fight Club / Color Me Good / Typos: Web and Print / Royalty-free ain’t that Bad / Design Deals / Rockin’ Design / Pedigree / Straight? Edge? / Oh no! / Awards? No, Never. / Ethics? Hahaha / Bad Boy / The Eternal Debate / Spec’ This!

ESSAYS

Media Safe Havens / I   D O   D E C L A R E / Cuteness and Green Design for a Brighter, Cuter Future / Not The Party She Planned / Pick One / Rick Poynor: Ipse Dixit / Untitled / unclear, although / The Zign is on the Wall / Bare Bones / War Effort / Pity… / Laura Fields and the Page Three Sutra / Logophobia / The Discovery and Use of Appropriation, by a Conflicted “Graphic Design Student” / Got Game? / Serving It Up / An homogenized world? / One Size Fits All / If you’re Bad we’re Going to McDonalds. / Will I? / Life is Choices / Design Entrepreneurship: Is It Right For You? / Condemned Paper / Designing for Deception / ADHD, Creativity, & The Commercial Art Industry / Keep It Simple, Stupid:The Case for Reviving Communication / Cha- Cha- Change … / MONEY: The Branding of a Country through the Design of its Currency / A Century of Candy Bars: An Analysis of Wrapper Design / The Best Book in the World / For the Love of the Game / For Keepsake! / “This is historic times.”-George W. Bush, April 20, 2004 / A Contribution to the Ethical Taxonomy of Political Signage / The Once and Future Brand / Individuality Lost / Design and Meaning / Graphic Design as Weapon of Territorial Terror / The Agony of DeFeet / Fluid Prose / Concrete Poetry / Design’s Glass Ceiling / No Work? No Problem, Part I: Shaping Your Image / Please be Careful / Graphic Design in Search of Conscience / Is that a Graphic Designer with your Client, or are you just Happy to See me? / One Thousand-Forty-Two Words on Challenging Assumptions

HARDWARE SOFTWARE
INTERNATIONAL
INTERVIEWS
MISCELLANEOUS

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