
AIGA: Rejustified
It’s time to take a new look at AIGA’s ‘Justified’ design competition.
It’s time to take a new look at AIGA’s ‘Justified’ design competition.
Criticism / Existentialism / Absurdism
Girl ages a lifetime in 5 minutes.
18 minutes on copyright law from a Harvard professor.
John Cleese explains how play is the key to creativity.
Poetry, my kitchen, and what you can learn from both
Don Draper takes three minutes to introduce one word.
“If You Don’t Buy This Book You’re Racist”
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…
The view from 80,000 feet
Changing the World, One Slice at a Time
That is the question…
Fahrenheit 451 to be released as an eBook…
Futura! Futura! Where for Art Thou?
Michael Vanderbyl and David Meckel playing The Font Game
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…
Hans Rosling’s amazing augmented reality animation…
Frank Chimero on Kickstarter
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…
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…
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…
No one knows who the street artist Banksy really is, so what better place for him (her?) to flex his street art chops than…
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…
Following the success of Helvetica and Objectified, filmmaker Gary Hustwit announced has announced the third film in his design trilogy. Design Writer Alissa Walked…
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…
Charles S. King, designer of the iconic Range Rover died last week. He was 85. Whatever you think of cars, SUVs or the Range…
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…
This little gem has been making the rounds of late, but its still worth sharing. Solar Beat is an orbital music box of sorts…
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…
The best way to document the process of a 4D project is, as you might expect, in 4D. The folks at Apt Studios did…
Whatever your politics, this is a pretty compelling use of information graphics to tell a story (not surprising considering that Edward Tufte is now…
In case you thought there is only one way to do something — or if you thought that once something has been “done” it…
One of the ongoing formal challenges of graphic design is the need to successfully integrate type and image. This is a recap of some…
About a year ago I had the pleasure of meeting and listening to Sol Sender, designer of the now classic logo for the Obama…
Check out this Oscar-nominated short film, Logorama.
Michael Beirut digs into the 86 notebooks he’s kept over his career…
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…
This is what we strive for in design.