AIGA: Rejustified
It’s time to take a new look at AIGA’s ‘Justified’ design competition.
Videos
Brevity is the Sol Lewitt
Criticism / Existentialism / Absurdism
Something is Happening
Girl ages a lifetime in 5 minutes.
Copyright Basics
18 minutes on copyright law from a Harvard professor.
Lightbulb Jokes and Serious Play
John Cleese explains how play is the key to creativity.
Ordinary Things
Poetry, my kitchen, and what you can learn from both
The Art Of The Pitch
Don Draper takes three minutes to introduce one word.
How to be Black
“If You Don’t Buy This Book You’re Racist”
Young Eyes
A couple of years ago I linked to a post about explaining design to 10-year-olds. Now it seems that 5-year olds want to explain…
Perspective
The view from 80,000 feet
PieLab
Changing the World, One Slice at a Time
Tubby or Not Tubby
That is the question…
Pleasure To Burn
Fahrenheit 451 to be released as an eBook…
Moonrise Kingdom
Futura! Futura! Where for Art Thou?
Helvetica: Not What It Used To Be
Michael Vanderbyl and David Meckel playing The Font Game
Noticing, Appreciating, Moving
Everything I want you to teach you about graphic design this semester, summed up in six minutes.
Did you know that Graphic Design at CCA now has a Facebook page? Did you know that CCA design faculty member Jeremey Mende won…
200 Years In 4 Minutes
Hans Rosling’s amazing augmented reality animation…
The Shape Of Design
Frank Chimero on Kickstarter
Who Died & Made You Boss?
James Victore’s new Monograph, Victore, or, Who Died and Made You Boss, is on shelves now. If you haven’t already ordered it, this promo…
George Lois
Here’s a great little behind-the-scenes video of the legendary “Mad Man” George Lois. He was hired to shoot an ad for TruFocals, and ended…
Colbert Salutes Doyle
Last night the Cooper Hewitt presented its National Design Awards in New York. Designer Stephen Doyle was honored with an introduction by none other than…
Banksy
No one knows who the street artist Banksy really is, so what better place for him (her?) to flex his street art chops than…
The Letter W
Over on Brand New today, Armin Vit writes about Wellesley’s recent identity update (designed by Base). Essentially, it’s a modified Garamond W; nothing too…
Urbanized
Following the success of Helvetica and Objectified, filmmaker Gary Hustwit announced has announced the third film in his design trilogy. Design Writer Alissa Walked…
“Design is about people, not things”
Smart Design’s Tom Dair received the Cooper Hewitt’s National Design Award last week, and was promptly quoted in a speech by Michelle Obama. The…
My Kingdom For A Horse
Charles S. King, designer of the iconic Range Rover died last week. He was 85. Whatever you think of cars, SUVs or the Range…
Top 10 Design Insights
I’ve shown this to most of my students at one time or another, partly because its one of the funniest things I’ve ever…
Celestial Symphony
This little gem has been making the rounds of late, but its still worth sharing. Solar Beat is an orbital music box of sorts…
The Cat is Out of the Bag
Puma recently announced their revolutionary new shoebox design (or as they put it, “the best shoebox ever”). Working with CCA faculty member Yves Behar the…
Video Process Books
The best way to document the process of a 4D project is, as you might expect, in 4D. The folks at Apt Studios did…
We Love Infographics
Whatever your politics, this is a pretty compelling use of information graphics to tell a story (not surprising considering that Edward Tufte is now…
Bohemian Rhapsody
In case you thought there is only one way to do something — or if you thought that once something has been “done” it…
Tetris on a Grand Scale
Type + Image
One of the ongoing formal challenges of graphic design is the need to successfully integrate type and image. This is a recap of some…
The Big O
About a year ago I had the pleasure of meeting and listening to Sol Sender, designer of the now classic logo for the Obama…
Logorama
Check out this Oscar-nominated short film, Logorama.
5 Secrets From 86 Notebooks
Michael Beirut digs into the 86 notebooks he’s kept over his career…
Rotating Kitchen
The Rotating Kitchen by Zeger Reyers was put into motion during the opening of the exhibition Eating the Universe at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany, last…
I [Robert Indiana] NY
This is what we strive for in design.
