The Future of News panel at NYC Advertising Week in September 2011 was polarized by blind optimism and Grinch-like misery and gloom. Spokespersons from CNN and Flipboard were ebullient – There has ne...
Since our American friend Mr. William A. Dwiggins coined the term ‘Graphic Designer’ in 1922, stripping away the ‘Commercial Artist’ moniker, there’s been a constant struggle for definition of both t...
Before I start, I would like to note that I love the work I do and wouldn’t want to do anything else. At times It doesn’t even feel like a job, but when I sit down to think about it, grap...
In October 2010, Business Secretary Vince Cable gave the government’s approval to a report calling for an unlimited level of tuition fees for higher education students [1]. A month later initial deta...
After some introduction and teasing from Erik Spiekermann, Chip Kidd stepped on stage. He thanked Erik, and announced that “You make me feel like Lady Gaga, only with bigger breasts.” Wha...
An African King may seem like an unusual guest for a conference on typography and graphic design, but King Bansah and Julian Zimmermann’s talk about branding a royal celebrity created a noticea...
Look again, think again was the standout sound byte from Marina Willer’s talk this morning. The invitation to keep questioning and experimenting is pivotal to Wolff Olins work, and as she flick...
Friday closed with words from a design anarchist, Neville Brody. Few designers have divided opinion like Brody, but then fewer can claim his status, widely regarded as one of Britains most influentia...
Each talk at Typo London has been refreshingly disparate from the next, and Andrew Stevens‘ insight into the process of GTF was no different. Interestingly for what is historically a typographi...
Gary Hustwit loves Graphic Design. So much so that he decided to make a film about it. Despite never picking up a camera before ‘Helvetica’ marked his directorial debut, and his fascinati...
Typo London 2011 was kicked off with a visually engaging talk by Dale Herigstad, the Emmy award winning Founder of Schematic (now merged to become Possible Worldwide). With 32 years of experience in ...
Though well known within the industry principally as Founder and Creative Director of the award winning studio Browns, ‘Here and now’ offered an insight into the workings of Jonathan Elle...
Does a designers education have an effect on the way they write in their professional life? We’ve all had the experience of a speech that goes on too long, the audience fidgets, people cough and the ...
Don’t Follow the Web, Follow Your Heart. Dear Student As a new school year is upon you, you’re probably entering your junior or senior year at a design college somewhere. You’ve tal...
…please understand that there are greater opportunities available to you. You have an inherent need to solve problems, visually and conceptually. There is enormous value in this, but you may be...
Brand guidelines — the bible for a brand. Consistency is the key when it comes to relaying a brand’s message across the various different media that it could be presented on. It’s as relevant and ess...
Typography and typefaces in graphic design can be thought of like building and building material in architecture. Typography is much like brickwork. Buildings are built up from brick as words are bui...
The design community was an early adopter of Twitter. Designers, freelancers and studios alike kept an up–do–date channel within a tight and supportive community. Promoting a product was, and still i...
There are few more contentious topics in design than the ownership of work, and with more and more designers using personal websites and blogs as portfolio archives, debates on the subject are resurf...
Let’s face it, whether as part of an agency or not, the work we do (and care about) is in some small way for ourselves, for our own personal portfolio. To me it’s what drives designers to do their be...
Everyone has moments of hating the people they work to serve. Waitresses, bank tellers, and sales assistants all have days when customers get on their nerves. Doctors, lawyers, accountants and dentis...
We at Design Assembly wanted to help promote these beautiful posters designed by Japanese designer Hiromi Suzuki from Wolff Olins to raise funds for the victims of the earthquake that hit Japan in Ma...
Otl Aicher, the German designer, and Donald Judd, the American artist, had a great deal in common. Both lived and worked during the same era (the 1920s to the 1990s). Both retreated to far-removed, l...
I’m frequently asked this question by design students, and cut short by the paradox. In today’s digital age, designers have a plethora of ways to get their names out into the world: personal websites...
‘Only hairdressers give each other more awards than designers’ KesselsKramer Imagine what we could do with the money we spend on entering awards and attending ceremonies. Imagine the diff...
As a child, my dad collected records and in every house we lived, he always built a shelving device to store their ever increasing mass. The records would rest against each other in one long line; ra...
A few years ago I managed to get my hands on a copy of Graphis Packaging 2, a somewhat rare and wonderful resource for graphic designers. After feasting my eyes on the bounty of 1970s industrial and ...
Every time I’m on the verge of a new experience, I feel like a giddy little kid on Christmas morning. All the butterflies I felt as a 5 year-old come rushing back, and I’m overwhelmed with anticipati...
Sensibly evaluating the design of a new football kit can be a tricky business – the line between fashion statement and wearing your team’s badge with an unwavering sense of tribal pride now see...
Choosing graphic design as a career choice has never been more popular; in my decade plus of studying and working in the field, it has become much easier to explain my occupation to strangers. In fac...
You are no longer following . Undo?
English
Suomi
Svenska