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2010 I.D. Annual Design Review

2010 I.D. Annual Design Review Since 1954, the I.D. Annual Design Review has recognized the best in product, furniture, graphic and environment design, from the iconic to the obscure. The I.D. Annual Design Award 2010 recognizes the best design work in nine categories: Concepts Consumer Products Environments Equipment Furniture Graphics Interactive Packaging Student Work Transportation Enjoy!

What advice would you give to a graphic design student?

From Frank Chimeri Anonymous asked: What advice would you give to a graphic design student? Design does not equal client work. It’s hard to make purple work in a design. The things your teachers tell you in class are not gospel. You will get conflicting information. It means that both are wrong. Or both are true. This never stops. Most decisions are gray, and everything lives on a spectrum of correctness and suitability. Look people in the eyes when you are talking or listening to th...

Who are Milton Glaser’s role models?

Who are Milton Glaser's role models? 1/Herbert Bayer 2/George Salter 3/Lester Beall 4/Paul Rand 5/Joseph Baum Glaser talks about his role models here: http://www.printmag.com/Article/Milton-Glaser-talks-about-his-role-models Thanks to Printmag.com

HOW Conference: Day 3 / 4 (final day)

Day 2 (Monday) of the HOW Conference was all about Inspiration, primarily because of the sessions I chose to attend. In total contrast, on Day 3 the sessions that I attended were filled with practical advice. The general session I attended was Visual Storytelling, presented by Nancy Duarte. I saw Nancy last year at HOW and was just as impressed this year! She's an amazing presenter. She teaches us to use stories and emotion to improve your message, whether it be a sales presentation, speaker ...

HOW Conference: Day 2

I have to apologize not getting day 2 online earlier -- the conference has been a whirlwind! So here we go .... Monday, June 7 | Day 2: The day started out with two sessions by two incredibly strong, creative women. The first was the general session, Inspiration: You Are What You Keep, Gail Anderson. Gail is an inspirational, not to mention obsessive, designer for the Rolling Stone magazine. She's a collector, and everything she has acquired over the years has been an influence in he...

HOW Conference: Day 1

Yesterday was the first day of the HOW Design Conference in Denver, Colorado! Woo Hoo! This is my 11th year attending and I rely on it as a source of renewal and inspiration annually. As I always do, I started off with the morning with the pre-conference studio tours. We visited 3 studios, plus a letterpress print shop and they openly shared their work and processes with us. Our tour started with Factory Design Lab, a premium and luxury brand firm - very impressive space and work. Our 2nd stop ...

Britain’s Mid-Century Female Designers

From Dwell: Of the iconic women designers working in the mid-20th century, the two most often recognized—and adored—are Ray Eames and Lucienne Day (the female halves of two of the best-known creative couples of the era). While Eames won our hearts with her inventive furniture designs, Day brought modernism to the masses via her woven textile designs. On Saturday, May 15, the Textile Museum in Washington, DC, opens a new exhibit featuring the work of Day and two other mid-century British designer...

AIGA Detroit

Announcing the launch of the new AIGA Detroit website. http://www.detroit.aiga.org/

Get some perspective!

GrandPerspective is an awesome utility that will that will graphically shows the disk usage within your MAC OS X file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space. It uses a so called tree map for visualization. Each file is shown as a rectangle with an area proportional to the file's size. Files in the same folder appear together, but their placement is otherwise arbitrary. What does your hard drive look like?

HowConf 2010 = Networking with like-minded people

The #1 reason I attend the HOW Conference (June 6–9 in Denver) is to network with like-minded people. Imagine being lucky enough to do something for a living that you love – graphic design. Now imagine spending 3 1/2 days with a couple thousand people that have the same passion for design that you have ... It makes for great conversation everywhere you turn. You can start that conversation early by joining the How Conference online forum. There's no reason to go it alone. If your a newbie...