Yesterday Take Me Out to the Old Yankee Stadium- The new Yankee stadium, like most retro stadiums, bears the burden of being faux, a recreation, like a Disney version of reality. It works and it doesn't.... (more)
- Alan Rapp: Personal Space
- Robert Sommer's Personal Space: The Behavioral Basis of Design was published in forty years ago, and its compact title concept -- an invisible but perceptible security zone surrounding an individual -- caught on. But where is Sommer now?
A recent study in Perception finds that listening to music on headphones alters our sense of sociospatial relations. Until these more contemporary strands of inquiry result in a truly new analysis of how we perceive our interpersonal zones today, Personal Spac... (more)
- Today, 06.27.09
- Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's Today.... (more)
- Angela Riechers: Hot Ticket
- To see a play or movie, or ride the Twentieth Century Limited, you needed a ticket, and the development of ticket-dispensing machines paralleled the growth of popular culture.... (more)
- Mad Music
- In 1962, I spent hours listening to Mad magazine's first LP (Big Top Records), Mad "Twists" Rock 'N' Roll. Owning the record made me feel like I was part of a club, which latter evolved into the sardonic, ironic sixties youth culture. It brings me back to a time before art, design, and humor had to be sophisticated to be good.
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- Spoiler Alert! Or, Happy Father's Day
- Dad couldn't help it. He was a natural born spoiler.... (more)
- Today, 06.20.09
- Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's Today.... (more)
- The Beauty of a Park
- The High Line in Manhattan, whose first section opened Monday, would seem to be Olmsted's nightmare.... (more)
- Seymour, An Introduction
- In a world of design consultants, information architects, and experience planners, Seymour Chwast is something refreshingly old-fashioned: a commercial artist. If this is a term that has fallen into dispute, Seymour is the best argument for reviving it.... (more)
- Free Books
- Everyone loves a good book, of course, but lets not forget that the books were FREE! 600 books given away in one day on the streets of New York City.... (more)
- Today Just Add Stock goes live. The first entries for Eye's new awards are coming in -- where are yours?
- Just Add Stock is Eye magazine's new competition for print or online designs that use stock imagery. Anyone can take part, and it's free to enter. The awards are for commissioned design work (made since Jan 08) that uses photographs, illustrations and/or film clips from any image library worldwide. Deadline: 31 July 09.
We want to see how designers have responded to the challenge of working without commissioned imagery, and there's a distinguished panel of judges, including:
Aporva Baxi, creativ... (more)
- 3 days Persepolis 2.0. Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel is detourned to chart new events in Iran
- Appropriations and detournements are a time-honoured tradition in comics, writes Roger Sabin. The 1930s Tijuana Bibles took Popeye and put him in pornographic storylines, a 1970s underground comic made Beryl the Peril a symbol of abortion rights, and who could forget 1988's Breaking Free, with Tintin as an anarchist agitator. Now comes Persepolis re-imagined as a comment on Iran's post-election uprising, spreadpersepolis.com.
It's not known if Marjane Satrapi (see our interview in Eye 50) appro... (more)
- Eye before you buy. Sample some words & images; type & illustration from the past two issues
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You can now read scrollable, zoomable, online versions of several spreads from Eye 72 and Eye 71. This includes extracts from 'The graphic designer as illustrator' and our Reputations interview with Marian Bantjes (both in 72) and from 'Golden Age?' (in type special Eye 71). And Véronique Vienne's review of Antoine + Manuel, also from Eye 71. Subscribe -- or get single issues -- by going to the new online Eye shop, bit.ly/Eyeshop.... (more)
- Save the panda, but keep a low profile. 'WWF's logo was part of the problem, so it had to be part
- Is illustration bringing something new to brand communications? For his Eye 72 feature 'Drawn into conversation', Steve Hare talked to Johnny Tan, executive creative director of BBH Shanghai, about Jianfeng Pan's images for the 'WWF Saves More Than Pandas' campaign, and the state of the art in the Asia-Pacific region.
Steve Hare: Do you see illustration as making a comeback -- or bringing something entirely new to brand communications? Why is this? Obviously it can be a cheaper solution, but may... (more)
- (not so) Secret Blisters. Screenprints on show and on sale for one night only
- 'Secret Blisters' takes place on Friday 26 June -- it's a Print Club London event that features screenprints by designer-illustrators such as Si Scott, Paula Castro, Kate Moross, Anthony Burrill, Eine and James Joyce, who's featured in the latest issue of Eye. See poster (above) for details. The event also marks the 'pre-launch' (RSVPs only) of the book For Love and Money by Liz Farrelly and Olivia Triggs.
Read an extract from 'The orderly chaos of James Joyce' on the Eye site.
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- Not in their elements. When illustrator Tony Meeuwissen met Rolling Stones Keef and Brian
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I briefly met two Rolling Stones in 1967, writes Tony Meeuwissen, thanks to Al Vandenberg, the American master photographer (then an innovative art director) and my only genuine art teacher. He taught me not to do things as others did, but to approach every new venture with fresh eyes, without preconceptions of how things had been done before.
Al came to England in 1965 and quickly became part of the London scene. He got to know the photographer Michael Cooper, who was to mastermind and photogr... (more)
- Eye 72 is on its way. Marian Bantjes, Airfix, MTV and 'the designer as illustrator'
- Here's the cover of the latest issue of Eye. We like it. And no, it doesn't say 'sex', it's a detail of Marian Bantjes' 'Seduction' poster for Yale School of Architecture.
Eye 72, printed on four different paper stocks, features an extensive redesign by Esterson Associates that foregrounds the content -- words and pictures -- but makes use of a new set of 'guest' typefaces for each issue, in this case the serif Newzald and National by Kris Sowersby, klim.co.nz.
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- Heavy metal. Anthony Oliver's Common Knowledge piece about tractor badges from Eye 71
- My father was a design engineer who specialised in heavy earth-moving equipment, writes photographer Anthony Oliver, so I grew up around iconic names such as Kenworth Trucks, Caterpillar and Oshkosh (the most powerful trucks in the world -- not kids' dungarees).
Above: tractor badge, 1967; top: badge, 1950-59
And I was always aware of these solid metal tractor badges. The older ones were probably created in-house by engineering designers, and many, like the one for Hart Parr, would have been ca... (more)
- Smoke and mirrors. Poke's digital agency map for Super Contemporary at the Design Museum
- It's like a very simple video warfare game, chronologically controlled by one knob. As you enter the third quarter of 2001, writes John L. Walters, Razorfish explodes, leaving trailing clouds of black smoke in its wake, followed soon after by fellow digital agencies Deepend and Oven. Poke, the agency that devised this 'game' -- a map of London's digital agencies, was founded around that time, and is shown by a 'green shoot' icon.
Above: The births, marriages and deaths of London's digital creat... (more)
- Up against the wall. Layouts of the forthcoming Eye magazine on the studio wall
- While we're working on the magazine we stick layouts on the meeting room wall, to get a sense of the structure of the issue. The theme of the centre well of Eye 72, out later in June, is illustration -- in particular 'The designer as illustrator'. For more details, sign up for the editor's newsletter, which we'll be sending out later this week.
This issue also marks the our first redesign for years: new typefaces throughout (with one small exception).
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- MEAT 2/2
- Italian graphic design collective MEAT talk about their favourite designers as well as Italian designer Bruno Munari. MEAT often give workshops and they speak specifically about their workshop at the Imagine iT conference in Bologna. They round up the interview musing about the future of MEAT.
Art Chantry - Speak Up interview ::
Jonathan Barnbrook ::
Bruno Munari ::
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- MEAT 1/2
- The Italian graphic design collective MEAT give insight into the gestation of MEAT and give a brief history of the collective. They speak of their past graffiti writing, their clients and the types of projects that come through their studio. Being the designers of the printed matter for the Imagine It conference in Bologna, they speak about the design for the identity and ephemera.
MEAT collettivo grafico ::
Imagine It conference ::
MEAT in PaperIdeas ::
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- Cinzia Ferrera 1/1
- Cinzia Ferrara is an architect and graphic designer. She is professor of the Master course in design at the Laboratory of Visual Communication in Palermo. Ferrara speaks about the mafia in Palermo and the use of graphic design and propaganda to fight mafia activities. She describes the reactions of the public to the anti-mafia design work, organization and campaigns. Ferrara indicates some directions for future advertising, promotional projects and educational programs in schools. She addresses ... (more)
- Heather Shaw 1/1
- Heather Shaw is a graphic design and digital media lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Heather speaks about her teaching philosophy and the importance of teaching interactive and information design in graphic design programs today. She presses for the need to integrate new technologies and trends into contemporary design teaching.
Heather Shaw ::
Heather Shaw bio ::
Processing ::
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- Robothon 2009
- An impression of the Robothon 2009 conference on type design and type technology, held in March at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. You’ll hear Paul van der Laan, Frank Griesshammer, Tal Lemming, Kai Bernau, James Grieshaber, Andy Clymer and Erik van Blokland.
Robothon 2009 ::
Robothon 2009 lectures on video ::
Robothon 2009 photos ::
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- Bruce Connew 2/2
- Bruce Connew continues with the importance of travel in his work, especially in Burma, and the process of constructing books. He concludes by explaining his project I Must Behave, exhibited at the same time as TypeSHED11, at Mary Newton Gallery.
I Must Behave by Bruce Connew - some pictures ::
I Must Behave - the book ::
Mary Newton Gallery ::
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- Bruce Connew 1/2
- Bruce Connew is a photographer based in New Zealand. He tells us about differences and similitudes between photography and design, about objectiveness in photography. He describes the social and political aspect of his work, as well as the role of publishing books.
Bruce Connew website ::
Get Bruce Connew's books ::
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- Masayoshi Kodaira 1/1
- Masayoshi Kodaira discusses music and his evolving tastes, his start as a graphic designer, his dislike of design school and his early career. He discusses his dreams of directing a movie, his current work with Kenya Hara and his inspirations.
Masayoshi Kodaira's website ::
Masayoshi Kodaira profile ::
Rolling Stones magazine ::
Kenya Hara ::
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- Kris Sowersby 1/1
- Kris Sowersby, a New Zealand base type designer, talks about Kenny, an Australian movie, type design as one big ritual, and the gestation of his interest in type. the world of type design in New Zealand (and the lack of a graphic design community). The history of type in New Zealand, his heroes, boxing and clicking a mouse, and what he hates about type design.
Kris Sowersby ::
Village/Chester Jenkins ::
Christian Schwartz ::
Kenny The Movie ::
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- Noel Waite 1/1
- Noel Waite, a graphic design historian, talks about his education and activities in graphic design field. He defines what is specific to “New Zealandish” design in an historical perspective. He explains the influence of Maori culture, as well as current graphic design trends in New Zealand.
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Māori on wikipedia ::
Noel Waite ::
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- Today USAspending.gov: Where Americans Can See where their Money Goes
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USAspending.gov is a new US governmental website designed in accordance to the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Transparency Act): it is a single searchable website, accessible by the public for free that includes for each Federal award:
1. the name of the entity receiving the award;
2. the amount of the award;
3. information on the award including transaction type, funding agency, etc;
4. the location of the entity receiving the award;
5. a unique identifie... (more)
- Yesterday Sputnik Observatory for the Study of Contemporary Culture
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Sputnik Observatory for the Study of Contemporary Culture [sptnk.org] is the latest project from interactive information design hero Jonathan Harris, well known from other info-aesthetics pieces such as I Want You to Want Me, Whale Hunt, Universe, Love Lines, We Feel Fine and Ten by Ten.
If you want to know more about some perplexing themes like Interspecies Communication, Urban Metabolism or 21 Senses, then this site is for you.
According to Chris himself: "The project is the r... (more)
- 3 days DD4D Conference Best-Of Coverage (Guest Post)
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From June 18-20 we attended the DD4D (= Data Designed for Decisions) [dd4d.net] conference at the OECD Conference center in Paris. The conference was organized both by the IIID and the OECD with the goal to bring together statisticians, information designers, visualization researchers, and practitioners (or as the conference stated: "intermediaries between data, knowledge and empowerment"). The conference organizers had invited a number of amazing speakers, including such celebrities a... (more)
- 3 days Typographic Reinterpretation of Cunningham's Dancing Hands
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Ascenders & Descenders is a typographic reinterpretation of Merce Cunningham's dancing hands as recorded by OpenEnded Group for the Loops project.
The piece is a Cunningham dance work reconstructed from textual deconstructions of other Cunningham dance works. Each finger has an associated excerpt from an article, review, or essay on Cunningham from the last 5 decades. These texts become the "ink" with which each finger manifests its movements. Each text is dynamically typeset in 3 dimensio... (more)
- Cykelbarometer: Public Copenhagen Urban Bicycle Counter
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The City of Copenhagen recently launched a public bicycle counter [copenhagenize.com], completely equipped with an air pump for the convenience of cyclists. The urban display counts the daily number of cyclists that use the new Green Path that slices diagonally across the Copenhagen and Frederiksberg pathway system. There is a 'sensor line' in the asphalt on the bike lane a few metres in front of the counter which registers the cyclists, probably via a motion sensor.
The idea is to... (more)
- Communicating the Noise Levels Caused by Heathrow Airport
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The book Unseen Networks of Heathrow Airport [iancarr.net] is accompanied by a small collection of simple data visualization posters that illustrate the noise levels at different locations in and around Heathrow airport buildings and boundaries. The "Spheres" poster portrays noise levels recorded at a Sound levels (dB) location in and around Heathrow Airport by colored circles. The "Matrix" visualization displays the link between each Sound levels (dB) location and the type of sound re... (more)
- NYTimes Michael Jackson's Billboard Rankings Over Time
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The New York Times just released this interactive infographic about Jackson's Billboard Rankings Over Time [nytimes.com]. It show the timeline of how Michael Jackson's songs performed on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and how Michael Jackson's Billboard rankings compare with other notable artists, just as The Beatles, US or Mariah Carey.
More information about how the NYTimes graphics department was able to churn out this graphic so quickly, can be found at the Revolutions blog.
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- Baseball Statistics Minimal Infographics
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Baseball Infographics and other Visual Treats [flipflopflyin.com] consists of a small collection of infographic illustrations of mainly baseball-related statistics. The collection includes sports facts such as a projection of when the Yankees might run out of double-digit numbers, a size comparison of lot of sporty balls, the highest and lowest price for individual game tickets, a map of all MLB locations and their ballpark orientations, basketball shorts then and now, the total lengt... (more)
- Real-Time Visualization Installation of Deutsche Telekom Network Traffic
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The data visualization installation Realtime Information Graphics [zumkuckuck.com] at the "Product Experience Center" of the Deutsche Telekom in Darmstadt, Germany shows the real-time usage of the company`s network infrastructure.
The custom-made visualization software developed by Zum Kuckuck analyzes the international data interchange as well as the network traffic of the Deutsche Telekom in real time, and reproduces it three-dimensionally, creating a cinematic sequence on a large... (more)
- BBC Memoryshare: A Place to Share and Explore Memories
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BBC Memoryshare [bbc.co.uk] is a living archive of memories from 1900 to the present day. Users are invited to contribute, share and browse memories of all their memorable days and life experiences, and see them in the context of recent and historical events. Memories can include text, photos and videos.
Memoryshare is a web service across a number of sites on bbc.co.uk, such as local websites, radio and television. It was launched on the BBC Norfolk site on 8 July 2007, on the BBC... (more)
- Today Driftwood: The AA's summer pavilion
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The Architectural Association has unveiled its latest Summer Pavilion: designed by third year Danecia Sibingo, its undulating form now sits outside the AA in London's Bedford Square
This is the fourth year that the AA has challenged its students to create a temporary Summer Pavilion from sustainable timber -- last year's was a recent D&AD award-winner (see here).
Driftwood was designed by concept designer Danecia Sibingo, a 3rd year student, and her team of Lyn Hayek, Yoojin Kim, Tae... (more)
- Today Javier Mariscal's Villa Julia
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At the Milan Furniture Fair in April, Magis launched a cardboard playhouse designed by the Spanish designer, Javier Mariscal. Now available in the UK as part of the Mariscal: Drawing Life exhibition at London's Design Museum (more on the show itself, next week) "Villa Julia" is a bijou residence with some handsome cladding work and its own garden tap. Viewing recommended...
"Villa Julia" is available from the Design Museum Shop -- though, as yet, doesn't appear to be on the Shop's websi... (more)
- Today D&AD Student Award winners
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Harry Handyside's video for Monkey track, Pigsy in Space, won a First at D&AD's Student Awards. A nice use of tights
Last night at the D&AD Student Awards, two graduate teams collected the Student of the Year prize -- one from Berghs School, Sweden and another from Central St Martins in the UK. 18 Firsts were also awarded. Here's a selection of the winning work...
In the advertising category, Johan Riddarström, David Lundgren, Hampus Mattsson of Berghs School Of Communication in Sw... (more)
- Today Return of the Evian babies
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- Yesterday Brighton Graphics and Illustration degree show
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CR was amid the gently steaming crowd at the opening of the University of Brighton Graphic Design and Illustration show last night, just off London's Brick Lane. Here's a few highlights
Josh White designed a lovely poster for a film festival as well as that for the show (this is his photo)
And this is my (much worse) photo
Several of the students prersented album sleeve ideas. This one is for Tales of Mystery and Imagination by The Alan Parsons Project and Edgar Allan Poe, designed by L... (more)
- Yesterday Twittering on
- Yesterday The Get Involved Poster Show
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Regular readers of the CR blog may recall us posting about London club-night Get Involved's posters in the past. Each month Get Involved approached a different designer or illustrator to create the poster, meaning the night amassed - over its three year tenure at central London venue The Social - a legacy of lovingly designed promotional materials.
Actually, I've got a confession to make - Get Involved, is one of my extra-curricular projects. I couldn't resist commissioning artists and imag... (more)
- Yesterday More Nice Publications
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Despite a painful wrestle with the back end of the then brand spanking new CR website and blog with my Some Nice Publications post back in May - I thought I'd do another round up of nice publications...
If you read the original post, you will have seen images of issue one of Nobrow magazine. Now the Nobrow Small Press has completed its very first screenprinted edition, The Bento Bestiary, which features illustration by Ben Newman and words by Scott James Donaldson. The book, hand screenpri... (more)
- 3 days Kanye West's golden stage show
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We happen to know that Mr Kanye West is a frequenter of the CR blog and has linked to some of our choicest bits via his excellent site. So it's nice to be able to return the favour with these mock-ups of what you can expect to see if you have tickets for Kanye's European tour. We're guessing keywords in the brief for the stage set may have included "gold" and "shiny"...
And just in case you thought he couldn't pull this off (it could very well play havoc with his ankles) here's a sho... (more)
- 3 days Red Wires: New Economist ad
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The Economist is to debut a new commercial on 3 July which seeks to reach out to a younger potential readership. Red Wires, from agency AMV.BBDO and directed by Tom Carty (he of Guinness Surfer fame), stars wire-jumper Florent Blondeau walking through a city on a series of red wires.
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- Today Dirk Fowler / F2 Design
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Like many, gig-posters provided my first introduction to graphic design. The images seemed to perfectly articulate the ideas and spirit of the bands I was so obsessed with. During a recent “Best of the Best of Poster Designers” conversation, I was reminded of Dirk Fowler’s work and it’s solid place in design history.
With the speed and ease of the Internet it’s easy to see design trendiness proliferate and to focus on the latest and greatest. In a time of gig-poste... (more)
- Yesterday Abner Graboff
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Mr. Angelo by Marjory Schwalje - Illustrations by Abner Graboff c1960
Ward Jenkins has an excellent interview with Jon Graboff over at the Ward-O-Matic. Jon is the son of the uber talented Abner Graboff, an American artist who illustrated a slew of amazing children’s books during the 1950s and 60s. In one part of the interview Jon mentions that his brother informed him that their dad had designed the CBS "eye" logo but didn't receive credit for it. The credit went instead to the chief... (more)
- 3 days Marcus Walters Illustration & Design
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After feeling around, I’ve come to this conclusion: I can afford a relaxing day in the sun and enjoying more work by UK based illustrator Marcus Walters.
Created for Barclays Bank, this illustration is bright and cheerful amidst a neighborhood of homes for sale. The clever type contained within the cloud nicely complements the analogously colored homes. I especially enjoy the intricate details that lie within the trees and the decoration of the homes. I love how Marcus’ hand drawn t... (more)
- Hermann Eidenbenz
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Hermann Eidenbenz - grafa international poster 1936
Beautiful poster from Swiss designer Hermann Eidenbenz. Hermann also designed the Clarendon typeface. Brings back memories of delivering newspapers as a kid.
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- Mike Cina mix
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Mike Cina - Spirit Edit Jazz Mix
In this 4th installment of grain edit mixtapes, we caught up with design nut and all-around awesome guy Mike Cina. When Mike isn’t manning the helm at YouWorkForThem he’s digging through your grand pa’s record collection. Today we’re excited to present an exclusive jazz mix he created for grain edit readers.
Before we get to the mix, I had a chance to pick Mike’s brain on record collecting, typography and album cover art.
When did... (more)
- HypeForType
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Si Scott’s Hunter
HypeForType is looking good. It’s a best of, it’s a who’s who, it’s a one stop typographic super shop featuring lots of inspired designers and typographers making great looking type.
Under the supervision of Alex Haigh (of Thinkdust), HypeForType brings together type designers and gives them a unique spot to showcase their work.
In Exclusive Faces Volume 01, HypeForType brought together the talented Alex Trochut, Si Scott, Jon Burgerman, Hellohik... (more)
- Poster Pick: Andrew Holder - Mountain Town
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Mountain Town archival giclee print 16″ x 21.5″
This week’s poster pick features another amazing print from Andrew Holder. Mountain Town features a trippy farm scene complete with a gushing river flowing uphill and a mountain cut like a gemstone. I can’t get enough of Andrew’s work. Someone needs to loan me a boat filled with cash, so I can buy all his prints.
Mountain Town is printed on 100% cotton rag archival fine art paper. Hand signed & numbered edition of... (more)
- Supercinq Design & Illustration
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One of my favorite past times is sewing, and seeing this poster by Paris based graphic design and illustration studio, Supercinq, makes my crafty little hands flutter with joy!
I love all of the playful shapes and objects within this poster, as well as the clustered mix of fancy hand drawn type. I especially like the color scheme of this piece. The black hand holding a white needle with red thread provides a nice contrast against the lightly textured aqua background.
Raphaëlle Vimont, Mathias... (more)
- HunterGatherer iPhone Case & Laptop Sleeve
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Incase and Arkitip have launched the latest installment of the Curated by Arkitip project with New York-based HunterGatherer. The HunterGatherer 15" Sleeve for MacBook Pro and HunterGatherer Slider Case for iPhone 3G S and iPhone 3G are available today at goincase.com and arkitip.com with availability following shortly in select Apple retail stores and better boutiques.
You can catch a video interview with Todd St. John of HunterGatherer and Gary Benzel here.
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- Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight
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The new documentary about Milton’s life and work, To Inform and Delight, is being released in a number of cities throughout the US this summer. Upcoming locations include:
June 27: ALBUQUERQUE / Guild Cinema
July 2: BOSTON / MFA Boston
July 7: WESTHAMPTON / Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center
Aug 12: AUSTIN / Alamo Drafthouse, AIGA Austin
Aug 27: ORANGE COUNTY / Orange County Museum of Art
Aug 27: ATLANTA / AIGA Atlanta
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- Kind Of a Personal Question, Isn't It?*
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- Judging The Best of Newspaper Design
- I'm in Syracuse assisting with the judging of the Society for News Design’s Best of Newspaper Design competition through Monday. There’s comprehensive live blog coverage, as well as Twittering and Flickring....... (more)
- New York Times Sells First Front-Page Display Ad
- The New York Times will sell display ads on its front page and, in fact, already has, as you can see in the above image of Monday’s front page. The Times would not disclose the rates it charges for...... (more)
- Save NewsPageDesigner
- NewsPageDesigner, the venerable newspaper design portfolio site, is in need of new servers and programming to redesign the site from the ground up. And they need to do it soon so they don't lose the thousands of portfolios that are...... (more)
- Election Front Pages
- Here are the front pages from the top U.S. papers this morning. I’ll add some smaller papers and international ones as they reflect the results in Thursday’s editions. Update: I’ve added a few more pages, including some international pages....... (more)
- Chicago Tribune Redesign
- The Chicago Tribune launched its long-awaited redesign today. A bunch more pages after the jump. The SND site has a look into the project in slideshow and video form, and Poynter has a Q&A with Design Director Jonathon Berlin....... (more)
- SND Vegas Backchannel
- The aforementioned SND Vegas workshop begins Sunday, and I've hacked together a page that collects some of the online conversations generated by the workshop. Content from blogs, Twitter, Flickr, etc., should show up on the page in a timely...... (more)
- Sarah Who?
- The Society for News Design annual workshop is about to kickoff in Las Vegas, and the online polling stations are open for members to vote for officers. But before you discharge that most sacred duty, the Concerned Union of Designers...... (more)
- Obama Front Pages
- Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination Thursday night. Here’s how it played on America’s front pages on Friday morning....... (more)
- Sun-Sentinel Redesign
- The South Florida Sun-Sentinel launched its redesign today. Charles Apple’s got every detail you’ll ever want to know. And over at SportsJournalists.com, everyone’s got an opinion....... (more)
- 3 days Event News: FOWA Summer Sale, Stack Overflow Dev Days Selling out & your chance to speak on the FOWD
- In this edition of “Event News” we offer you the chance to save up to 50% of FOWA 2 day conference passes, announce new cities for the upcoming Stack Overflow Dev Days series of conferences, reveal new speakers and details of the new uber-cool workshop venue for Future of Web Apps London and give you the chance to take to stand side by side with some of the UK’s biggest names in web design in our FOWD Tour “Call for Speakers”. Read on to find out more.
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- Kevin Rose: How to Promote Your Web App
- In this 11-minute interview we ask Kevin Rose, founder of digg and WeFollow five questions about web entrepreneurship. In case you don’t have time to watch the interview, we’ve summarized Kevin’s answers below.
Feel free to share your answers to these questions in the comments below. We’d love to hear your perspective.
What advice can you give new web entrepreneurs?
A great way to gain traction and get coverage for a new web app is approach a well known person and offer ... (more)
- Should you go Beyond Relational Databases?
- Relational databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL and various commercial products, have served us well for many years. Lately, however, there has been a lot of discussion on whether the relational model is reaching the end of its life-span, and what may come after it.
Should you care? Which database technology should you be using?
Of course the answer is “it depends”, but that’s not very helpful. Let me ask you a few questions to help you figure out which technology is appropriat... (more)
- Don't Let Your Baby Die - How to use Social Capital to Market Your Web App
- There’s a worryingly high web app mortality rate right now. I think the primary cause is the lack of marketing knowledge and how to apply it to web apps.
I spoke at FOWA Tour Leeds on this subject so I’m going to summarize the major points below for you. You can also watch the complete video which is synced with my slides.
Marketing has Changed Forever
As recently as one year ago, everyone worked hard at making sure their brand was portrayed in a positive light. The message was tight... (more)
- Six Useful Tips for Web Designers and Developers
- We’ve compiled six useful tips for all you web designers and developers out there. They cover various topics including: accessibility, SQL, web developer plugins for Firefox, HTML emails, design and jQuery.
Feel free to disagree or add your own in the comments below. If you’d like to submit a tip to be considered for future articles, just head over to Tipster and add your own.
Alt Tags and Screen Readers
By: James Fenton
I can’t claim these tips as my own, though my web accessi... (more)
- Six Ways that Google Wave is Going to Change Your Business, Career and Life
- Google recently announced their most ambitious project to date called Google Wave. According to Google, Wave is “what email would look like if it was invented today.”
If you haven’t made time to watch the one hour video, I’d highly recommend you do so today.
What’s the big deal?
I believe there are six reasons why Wave is going to have a huge impact on you. However, this is all predicated on mass adoption of the technology. If no-one uses it, then obviously it won&#... (more)
- Email Power Tips
- I’ve noticed that when I get stressed at work, it’s often because my email inbox is out of control. I’ve got hundreds of unread emails, with no idea which ones are important. I finally decided I needed to learn how to be much more effective with email, so I came up with a few strategies.
Thanks to David Allen and Tim Ferriss, I created a few simple rules to keep me on top of the madness, and here they are:
Check your email twice a day, but never right when you get into the off... (more)
- How to Effectively Manage Your (Huge) Todo List
- We live in hectic times. As information professionals we regularly have to battle overflowing email inboxes, monitor a flood of Tweets, craft attention-grabbing blog posts and on top of all that, remember to buy some milk on the way home.
I’ve developed a pretty effective methodology for making sure you stay focused on the important stuff. Grab a cup of coffee and let’s begin …
Organize Your Todos
The first thing you need to do is get all of your todos in one place. Gather them... (more)
- Launch a Business, Not a Side Project
- I think we have a serious problem in our industry.
I believe it generally started when Basecamp became quite successful and 37signals started to talk about their theories on the subject. Their basic mantra was “Don’t quit your day job to build a web app. Build it in your free time and use your day job to pay the bills until your new app brings in enough money to quit your day job.”
I used to agree with this, but now I think I’ve come full circle.
I’ve seen a lot of ... (more)
- Stack Overflow Dev Days
- We’re really excited to announce a brand new Carsonified event: Stack Overflow Dev Days. It’s a 1-day conference for programmers, in five different cities, and it’s only $99.
As you probably know, Joel Spolsky is one of the founders of Stack Overflow and he summarized the event quite well:
We decided to cram as many diverse topics as possible into a single day event. Like a tasting menu at a great restaurant, we'll line up six great speakers in each city.
This is not going to ... (more)
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