Contemporary graphic designers are called on to manage and present data and information in compelling and functional ways across an array of media—not deal in the birth of perfected and mod geometries to be gawked at and/or corporately acquired. Things have changed no matter how much we may want to deny it. However, we do
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traveling table
Unstructured, Miasmic, and without Edges(not so, but it may include such things)
Originally posted: Oct 26, 2013 This will not do the subject(s) justice so consider this a net cast wide and full of large holes—call it a survey or line drawn roughly around a few things. It comes from talking with student designers (you) who are defining individual interests or following an inclination with little or no
Read on »Matt on Processand Play
“…I feel balance is important. Time spent designing needs to be balanced with time spent not designing, lest the design become stale with overuse.” — Matt L.
Read on »The Prolog cut short, undialogedThe Ripe Satire, uncomediedAnd all for the
Earnest Seeking Ones, uncompromisingTo the Full Lot, unnumbered!
Resource-filled
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Both/ANDALL media
//so the cool thing about putting video on an overhead projector is that the camera can’t interpret the image properly and it makes things look like they’re breaking apart- see the part with my hand and the brush? pretty perfect.// —Andrea
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Narrative Environments
All environments hold a story—some are more explicit than others, some more active, dynamic, educational and desirable. Keep the baubles of the past—that static decoration that filled the food court and a role long gone. Sculpture, architecture, landscape, information and interaction design have grown together and synthesized to bring something more. I spoke with some
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Extra credit for the first right answers to the questions in the right column.
Read on »Graphic DesignStudy Sheetscourtesy of AIGA
Земля людей Артавазд Пелешян
Artavazd Pelechian
Read on »Graphic Design Shows
Just a reminder of two graphic design shows you may want to visit— Paul Rand (Atlanta) Graphic Design Now in Production (Winston-Salem, NC)
Read on »The consequences of multiple open h3 tags
You can practically hear the Jaws theme as you scroll.
Read on »Pop Chart Lab
Check out these (mostly) pop culture info prints. The cheese chart is nice.
Read on »well worth a read—AIGA, direction, language, purpose, more
Less than a day ago, Design Observer posted an open letter from several past AIGA presidents, medalists, and board members to the AIGA and its current board. I hope you will read it. The letter concerns the proposed sale of the AIGA national “headquarters” building and a campaign which pits a characterized old static mindset
Read on »Learn Code
It has been a while since I visited Codecademy’s site—maybe a year or so. I followed them for a while when they first started up. The W3Schools tutorials are useful for the novice coder, but these folks have some super nice features. Go check it out. Whew—I thought I was missing something and I was: the rest of
Read on »More Water Maps(these are close to home)
Over the last few days I’ve posted several information and educational design references. Of those, two had focus on water—where it flows and how much there is. Hope you have put the study on them and found good reason. Now here is a third submitted by Hannah with a view of Georgia. Take a look
Read on »Joost Grootens
Check out his portfolio of atlases—wonderful design.
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Herbert Bayer1953
Timelines, Sequences, Maps—simultaneous and beautiful. The complete atlas is at the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection and is well worth a studied look. Details! Also, take a quick read of Steven Heller discussing the Atlas at Print Magazine and An Infographist is Just a Visual Journalist from Swiss Infographics.com
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It is only graphic design or any of its cousins when it is published. Either requested from a server and distributed to many displays or pulled from a press and shared, it is the original when it is many. Saved singularly precious in a case under a bed, in a glass box, or pasted and
Read on »New / Reminder System
Secret Law of Page Harmony (Retinart.net) Canons of Page Construction (Wikipedia) Grid (Thinking with Type) thegridsystem.org
Read on »Especially practical application of information design
An intelligent first aid kit. Also, Pentagram is not above poop jokes, and this pleases me.
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Thanks to all of you who have been posting—it is good to see an online culture develop. Some of you mentioned you were required to blog in the past and added that being required to participate soured it for you. I think (know) there are great benefits to writing, reading, forming online dialog, and just
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For those of you who aren’t familiar with the blog Brain Pickings, written by Maria Popova, you should get familiarizing. It’s a great source for all types of creatives trying to tackle the creative process. There have been a number of posts there that have great answers to the question posed in “How do you
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