No. 72
The dingbat font we’ve all been waiting for: “Adanac is an iconic font representing aspects of Canadian culture and history.” [Via Drawn]
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Apr.29.2009
No. 71
Some classic books re-imagined as Atari 1980s Atari cartridges. [Via Drawn
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Apr.29.2009
No. 70
Robert De Niro has donated “1,300 boxes of papers, film, movie props and costumes” to the Harry Ransom Center at UT, documenting his career from the 1960s to today.
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Apr.26.2009
No. 69
The digital collections at Public Collectors is bound to be a time-sucker if more people add to the already awesome collections. [Via Many Stuff]
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Apr.26.2009
No. 68
The new Typographica. Excellent.
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Apr.26.2009
No. 67
Tattoo artist Scott Campbell laser-etches stacks of $1 bills. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]
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Apr.22.2009
No. 66
Here is one more compilation for the day: 35 truly original hand-made type experiments. [Via Design You Trust]
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Apr.22.2009
No. 65
“After assigning a color to every letter in the alphabet, I apply tiny dots of paint over every character on the page.” Wwo wonderful works by Lauren DiCioccio at 20x200: Vogue JUL07:pg145 and VanityFair MAY08:pg269. [Via Magtastic]
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Apr.22.2009
No. 64
I’ve never thought highly of typography in advertising — it’s typically an afterthought — but here is a pretty decent collection of 40 ads with imaginative typography. [Via Nice Fucking Graphics]
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Apr.22.2009
No. 63
New York magazine editor, Adam Moss, explains the big and tiny type on its covers. “It’s impossible to describe graphic design, but you want to create a visual tension on the cover.” [Via Design Observer]
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Apr.22.2009
No. 62
Popular songs redone as if they were computer alert windows. My favorite is Welcome to the Jungle.
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Apr.22.2009
No. 61
I will be Quip’n very lightly over the next few days as we move to Austin. Thank you for your patience.
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Apr.21.2009
No. 60
As officially closed as it gets: The new portal for the Speak Up archives is done.
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Apr.21.2009
No. 59
Art lovers rejoice. Not. Here is a timeline of layoffs and cutbacks at museums around the U.S.. [Via NotCot]
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Apr.21.2009
No. 58
A sentence I never thought I would write: A story about Comic Sans in The Wall Street Journal.
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Apr.21.2009
No. 57
A good shadow and gradient go a long way online. Smashing Magazine, shows a few tips and tricks.
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Apr.21.2009
No. 56
Major League Typos: Meet Adam Dunn and Ryan Zimmerman, professional baseball players for the Washington Natinals.
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Apr.20.2009
No. 55
The Spectrum of Online Friendship, from passive interest to investment. [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]
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Apr.19.2009
No. 54
Forty logos that use Helvetica. (I have my doubts about some of them). [Via Evasee]
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Apr.19.2009
No. 53
A 1968 chart of UFO shapes. [Via Monoscope]
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Apr.15.2009
No. 52
STEP Inside Design magazine’s last issue is on newsstands now. Sad, it was a great magazine. It will next merge with its sister publication Dynamic Graphics to create, um, Create.
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Apr.15.2009
No. 51
Nerdiest design t-shirts available: Graphic Design Heroes T-shirt Series by Paul Nini. “Wolfgang Weingart ist mein Homeboy.” Ha!
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Apr.15.2009
No. 50
A Flickr set of U.S.-issued World War II posters. [Via Coudal]
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Apr.15.2009
No. 49
I Love Typography introduces We Love Typography, a smorgasbord of type basically.
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Apr.15.2009
No. 48
Pretty sweet work by Network Osaka. [Via Nice Fucking Graphics]
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Apr.15.2009
No. 47
Massive ad agency BBH spends $1,500 on the controversial Crowdspring site for the design of their logo. Recession or stupidity? You decide.
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Apr.14.2009
No. 46
A look at the interior design of the fro-yo (frozen yoghurt) culture: Blobby and colorful. [Via NotCot]
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Apr.14.2009
No. 45
Video of a jolly Australian fellow on the subject of TV idents.
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Apr.14.2009
No. 44
Amazing composite photographs of New York scenes: People yawning, people smoking, nurses, the homeless, and more. [Via Design You Trust]
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Apr.14.2009
No. 43
Virgin sure has a bucketload of logos for all their brand extensions.
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Apr.14.2009
No. 42
Design firm Airside presents a juicy process post about their logo work for client Dream Ranch. [Via Nice Fucking Graphics]
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Apr.14.2009
No. 41
Artist Fran Grom drills thousands of little holes into artistic eggshells.
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Apr.13.2009
No. 40
Hilarious: A blog devoted to photographing bird nests in signage lettering. [Via SwissMiss]
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Apr.13.2009
No. 39
Frog wonders what an advanced Social Security card could look and function like.
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Apr.13.2009
No. 38
Follow-up to No. 32 below: The matching graphic for tracking the career evolution from intern to Chief Creative Officer as a copywriter. [Via Nice Fucking Graphics]
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Apr.13.2009
No. 37
More than 50 pop-culture interpretations of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]
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Apr.10.2009
No. 36
A sketchbook designed specifically for sketching T-shirts, i.e., it’s in the shape of a t-shirt. [Via Design You Trust]
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Apr.10.2009
No. 35
Best business card related YouTube video ever: Your business card is CRAP! Well, okay, there is the American Psycho business card scene.
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Apr.09.2009
No. 34
Adrian Shaughnessy gives you Ten Graphic Design Paradoxes.
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Apr.09.2009
No. 33
Interesting: “Armed with digital cameras and note pads, our designers visit retail environments to photograph and observe product packaging on shelf in search of common design threads and competitive opportunities. If you’re a brand manager, marketing professional, package designer or student, Patterns is for you.” There is an 80-page free preview here.
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Apr.09.2009
No. 32
Nice, simple and funny graphic tracking the career evolution from intern to Chief Creative Officer in the advertising industry. [Via NotCot]
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Apr.09.2009
No. 31
Grain Edit gathers some tasty vintage Porsche posters.
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Apr.09.2009
No. 30
Studio on Fire is en fuego with this letterpress poster featuring a “1950s Diner Vampire Fight Scene.”
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Apr.08.2009
No. 29
Quite endearing story: “Back when my younger brother and I were growing up, we made up imaginary football teams that we ‘played for’ in the back yard. […] We’d make up team names and I’d draw helmets for them […]. I recently found eight of these early logo drawings […].”
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Apr.08.2009
No. 28
The first graphic user interface? Say hello to 1981’s Xerox Star 8010. [Via ISO50]
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Apr.08.2009
No. 27
Fantastic use of toilet paper cardboard rolls to make face sculptures. [Via Design You Trust]
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Apr.08.2009
No. 26
This month’s newsletter from our Seattle friends at Modern Dog is particularly great: Includes a collection of all Art Walk posters and logo explorations on an old project.
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Apr.07.2009
No. 25
Eager to pimp your designs Watchmen style? Now you can with Dave Gibbons’ Gazette typeface. [Via HOW]
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Apr.07.2009
No. 23
A few tips on graphic design contracts.
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Apr.07.2009
No. 22
Sweet commercial for Sprint loaded with smooth infographics by the talented Superfad folks.
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Apr.07.2009
No. 21
The ScanDock, a nifty little stand for your iPhone to photograph letter-sized documents (if you don’t have a scanner I guess) or small still lives. [Via HOW]
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Apr.06.2009
No. 20
Paul Shaw, please be my pen pal and send me awesomely addressed envelopes like you do for Eye.
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Apr.06.2009
No. 19
“This medallion is the most branded object in the world.” Enough said. [Via iLT]
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Apr.06.2009
No. 18
Oddly fascinating: Video of all the recurring dance routines and moves in Walt Disney cartoons. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]
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Apr.06.2009
No. 17
Nice campaign for WWF, using magnetic boards so that people can place their coins as donations to reveal the shapes of animals.
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Apr.06.2009
No. 16
A very young Darth Vader James Earl Jones recites the ABCs.
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Apr.04.2009
No. 15
Psyop rocks some corrugated boxes in this ad for the UPS store. The (sound) punch-line is pretty good. [Via Motionographer]
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Apr.04.2009
No. 14
“Xerox Corporation scientists have invented a way to make prints whose images last only a day, so that the paper can be used again and again.” [Via Design Mind]
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Apr.03.2009
No. 13
Do-it-yourself dresses, in paint-it-yourself and assemble-it-yourself editions. [Via Evasee]
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Apr.03.2009
No. 12
The Smoking Type Generator: Type something and watch it form as the cigarettes burn.
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Apr.02.2009
No. 11
With these new body scanners, you might as well go naked to the airport.
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Apr.02.2009
No. 10
Tired of looking at your computer-filled workspace? Check out this Flickr set,
Workspaces - No computers! [Via Drawn]
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Apr.02.2009
No. 9
A t-shirt of Super Mario as if drawn by da Vinci.
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Apr.02.2009
No. 8
Okay… Google Reader is doing some weird stuff… I think I fixed something. If you use GR and the community feed is still not working let me know.
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Apr.02.2009
No. 7
Designer Peter Buchanan-Smith to be keynote speaker at Winthrop University Senior show.
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Apr.02.2009
No. 6
From blog to print: Photographic documentation of the first publication from It’s Nice That.
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Apr.01.2009
No. 5
FontFont introduces FF Dingbats 2.0, now with rubber duckies.
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Apr.01.2009
No. 4
MyFonts interviews Eric Gill. *
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Apr.01.2009
No. 3
“In hopes of drawing attention to my work and this site, I am offering free Pen & Ink illustrations.” You heard the man, go ask Mark Mahorney for a free drawing.
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Apr.01.2009
No. 2
A video interview with everyone’s favorite Israeli type experimentalist, Oded Ezer.
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Apr.01.2009
No. 1
A new dollar sign has been approved by U.S. congress. * [Via Design Observer]
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Apr.01.2009
Vol. 28, April 2009
Thank you for reading and contributing. Remember: Quip Responsibly.
Past Volumes are accessible through the archives.
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Apr.01.2009
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Takaaki Matsumoto is giving a free lecture this coming Tuesday, May 5, at FIT in NYC. This is the latest event in the on-going
FIT Visiting Artist Program
.
QUIPPED BY Josh B
Apr.30.2009
There Won't be Enough People to Bury the Dead
.
QUIPPED BY The Swine
Apr.30.2009
Need some color palette inspiration from the masses?
Look no further.
Apr.29.2009
Just discovered
Design Float
. Apparently its the Reddit (or Digg) of the design world. I still prefer to Quip here. :)
QUIPPED BY Niki V.
Apr.29.2009
Laura Miller argues that Twitter and e-mail aren't making us stupider... they're making us
more distracted
.
Apr.29.2009
Woah...
Mt Dew & Pepsi throwback
? Everyone is jumping on the vintage bandwagon!
QUIPPED BY Mike
Apr.29.2009
New rustic script font by Sudtipos
Matogrosso Script
Apr.28.2009
Gorgeous. A
Tarot deck
inspired by Albrecht Dürer.
Apr.28.2009
Lovely new bread packaging from Canada:
Silver Hills redesigned
QUIPPED BY Dan O
Apr.28.2009
The art of Penguin
science fiction
.
Apr.28.2009
It's a circle jerk of enormous proportions.
QUIPPED BY Niles
Apr.27.2009
A Melbourne man has completed a six-month-long quest to turn topography into typography.
Victorian Topography Typography
Apr.26.2009
Wow.
Promotional knit beer sweaters
from the 70s and 80s.
Apr.25.2009
cause/affect (http://causeaffect.aigasf.org/) is a biennial graphic design competition which celebrates the work of designers and organizations who set out to positively impact our society. Produced by AIGA San Francisco, this is a competition for do-gooders who do good work. Send in your entries before June 19, 2009.
Apr.24.2009
Farewell Speak Up – 25 Must Read Articles from the Archives
A look back through the archives to highlight some of the articles that had the greatest impact.
Apr.24.2009
100
Abandoned Houses.
Via
DO.
Moran out… but not down. Tally-ho! VR/
Apr.23.2009
A Treasury of Wood Type
Online
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Apr.23.2009
Theory:
Our Dreams of the Future
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Apr.23.2009
Arisman Seen…
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Apr.23.2009
"A Week in your Life
- 13 Book d'Autore."
QUIPPED BY Moran
Apr.23.2009
So maybe
designing furniture
isn’t all that difficult. Maybe you just need the right pencil.
QUIPPED BY Moran
Apr.23.2009
If you watch CSI, you'll know all about these
high resolution security cameras!
(youtube link)
QUIPPED BY Niki V.
Apr.23.2009
GQ Asks Flickr User to Give Up Photo for Credit Only
Apparently the recession hits us all in differing ways.
Apr.22.2009
A printing press,
four men, one camera.
QUIPPED BY Moran
Apr.22.2009
BREAKING NEWS:
The World Digital Library is finally online. Kiss your free time goodbye.
QUIPPED BY Moran
Apr.22.2009
The 10 Most Perverted Old School Video Games.
Some of these actually look challenging. HA! Hahahahahahahaha!
QUIPPED BY Moran
Apr.22.2009
More
on Andre and Dan. NOTE TO SELF: Get busy on that book idea.
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Apr.22.2009
That reminds me…
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Apr.22.2009
A BRIEF REVIEW:
The Typographic Desk Reference.
VR/
Apr.22.2009
The exciting thing about a recession…
Someone else's turn.
VR/
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Apr.22.2009
The "Jenga" Effect.
VR/
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Apr.21.2009
Nosign:
"A year ago I couldn’t have imagined where I would be now."
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Apr.21.2009
"Oceans Eleven"
Muppet style!
VR/
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Apr.21.2009
Here's a twi[s]t:
Twitter opera contest back for second round.
VR/
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Apr.21.2009
If it's not one thing, it's your mother:
The Best Beer In America.
VR/
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Apr.21.2009
Barnaby Barford:
The Good, The Bad, The Belle.
Whatever…
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Apr.21.2009
An oldie but a goodie!
"D’Altra Parte è Così"
by Nicola Ferrarese.
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Apr.21.2009
Thunderhouse
by Stephen Miggas.
VR/
QUIPPED BY Joe Moran
Apr.21.2009
Charlie Don't Surf!
But Clark does.
VR/
QUIPPED BY Joe Moran
Apr.21.2009
Never Sleep.
A new book by Andre and Dan.
VR/
QUIPPED BY Jan Roome
Apr.21.2009
In praise of
portfolio reviews.
VR/
QUIPPED BY Aej Mnoor
Apr.21.2009
Clifford Stoltze:
An Interview about posters -- and stuff.
VR/
QUIPPED BY Joe ranmo
Apr.21.2009
One & Other:
Just in case you're going to be in London this summer, and not doing anything else.
VR/
QUIPPED BY Joe Moran
Apr.21.2009
Speed Painting with Ketchup.
Yummy!
VR/
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Apr.21.2009
The World Is a Mess.
Agree or Disagree.
VR/
QUIPPED BY Joe Moran
Apr.21.2009
Typography Two Ways.
VR/
QUIPPED BY Joe Moran
Apr.21.2009
Does everyone know about
Coilhouse
already?!?!? Thanks for sharing!
VR/
Apr.21.2009
"The Obamas" illustration on the cover of Wizard magazine #211
references
a recent and controversial New Yorker cover
.
Apr.21.2009
Graffiti book review by a death row inmate.
QUIPPED BY Niles Kelly
Apr.21.2009
"The Homeland Security Department says it can
save $3 million
by firing consultants who create new logos." Guess
Ze Frank
is out of a job.
Apr.21.2009
Jason Kottke interviewed by Nora Young about "
curating the web
."
Apr.20.2009
Linked before, but this time actually live:
'
OBSTRUCTURES
RECOGNIZE THAT ALL STRUCTURES OF DESIGN ARE POTENTIAL OBSTRUCTIONS'
Apr.20.2009
Look at this
fucking hipster.
Apr.20.2009
oldie but goodie (plus sweet videography skillz):
christvertising
Apr.17.2009
Pretty amazing
posters inspired by movies.
I really dig the Annie Hall image.
Apr.17.2009
Slate openly
mocks
the ubiquitous Webby awards.
Apr.15.2009
Alice Rawsthorn writes about
the glass Heinz Tomato Ketchup bottle
.
Apr.15.2009
BMW's clever response to Audi's goading.
Apr.14.2009
Vintage
book plates
galore!
on
Seven Roads
Apr.14.2009
A nice collection of
vintage Italian posters
QUIPPED BY Mike
Apr.14.2009
You must see
this set
of 20 unique Twitter icons from famous illustrators like Frank Chimero, Jeffrey Bowman, Alex Mathers or Chris Maier
QUIPPED BY Adi
Apr.14.2009
The Personal Web Design Degree
The Personal Web Design Degree is an experiment in using the crowd to develop an online curriculum for web design education.
Apr.13.2009
The Simpsons are going
Postal in May
.
Apr.13.2009
Amazon purposefully
de-ranking
GLBT materials? Or a
'glitch'
?
Apr.13.2009
An interview with Kodakgirl, a.k.a. Martha Cooper
, photographer and author of the books Subway Art and Going Postal.
Apr.12.2009
Nicely designed, sweatshop free, American made, organic graphic t-shirts.
Refreshing.
QUIPPED BY Diane
Apr.10.2009
Related to Quip No. 14 (below)...
Another look at the designer accused of stealing his own work and billed $18,000
.
QUIPPED BY Ricardo
Apr.10.2009
Any t-shirt designers out there looking for a new place to submit your t-shirt designs for Moolah? Check out
Shirt Fight
.
Apr.09.2009
Now available in English:
Pioneers of Spanish Graphic Design
, by Emilio Gil. (See the Spanish original
here
.)
Apr.09.2009
Who is
Max Kerning
?
QUIPPED BY Niki V.
Apr.08.2009
Women in Israeli government?
Not if Photoshop can help it.
QUIPPED BY Josh B
Apr.07.2009
The
unspoken rules
of graphic design.
Apr.07.2009
A publication for design...business!
http://designbusinessreview.com/
Apr.07.2009
100 Brands of Interest II
Apr.07.2009
The Back in Black T-Shirt Exhibit
is on May 16 in Tampa, Florida and probably will feature some of your favorite artists.
But the t-shirts are limited edition and if you can't make it in person can order them online!
Apr.07.2009
Interview with Dress Code NY about their new book
Never Sleep
about the process of moving from design student to design professional.
Apr.06.2009
Designer is
accused of stealing
his own work and billed $18,000.
via
reddit
.
QUIPPED BY Niki V.
Apr.06.2009
Brand everything!
Identity for the World Financial Crisis
.
Apr.06.2009
LINK:
TalkingDesign Kuwaiti Style
Apr.05.2009
"Visual Aids for the Pushcart World":
An article on a new illustrated guide for New York City street vendors
. And
more work by Candy Chang
, designer of the guide.
Apr.05.2009
NYC's sewer grates, newspaper stands and pay phones speak up in
"The Lost Tribes of New York City"
, a stop-motion video by Andy and Carolyn London.
Apr.03.2009
Please don’t miss any of these
amazing new apps
for iPhone & iPod Touch!
QUIPPED BY Catalin
Apr.03.2009
Beard Revue
has begun aggregating the best beard art from around the web the first Thursday of every month. It's a veritable smorgasbord of stellar artists from around the world, and April's is not one to miss.
QUIPPED BY mb
Apr.03.2009
50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory.
via PSDTuts+.
QUIPPED BY Niki V.
Apr.02.2009
Scientists make the
blackest black
ever.
QUIPPED BY Josh B
Apr.02.2009
New design concept for photovoltaics:
Lunarpanels
.
QUIPPED BY Sam
Apr.01.2009
Keep your tweets at the top of your followers' timeline with
Stikky Tweets!
Apr.01.2009
Gmail introduces
Autopilot
.
Apr.01.2009
Following its 2007
exercise in taxi logo redesign
, The New York Times is requesting
logo designs for 1 World Trade Center, a.k.a. Freedom Tower
.
Apr.01.2009
April Food Day ~ Bloggers Fighting Hunger
April Food Day
Please consider donating to this worthy cause to help fight hunger in America via food banks.
Blog Action Day / Hunger 2009
Apr.01.2009