400 level transmedia

Graphic Design /
Visual Communication /
Interaction Design /
UX Design /
Data & Information Visualization /
Instructional Design /
Service Design /
Social Design /
Ontological Design – Transition Design /

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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Matt on Process
and 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.  

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Both/AND
ALL 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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Q&A

Extra credit for the first right answers to the questions in the right column.

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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Herbert Bayer
1953

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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Original Copy

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

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New / Reminder
System

Secret Law of Page Harmony (Retinart.net) Canons of Page Construction (Wikipedia) Grid (Thinking with Type) thegridsystem.org

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Culture is __________ .

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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Sharing Information

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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