Edible Geography is Nicola Twilley’s eclectic blog covering diverse categories such as City of Mobile Services and Smellscapes. All fit to be eaten, in more ways than one. Her thoughts about web-base...
Documentary Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision – Source: PBS Riggio-Lynch Interfaith Chapel – Source: Maya Lin Langston Hughes Library – Photograph credit: Lovelys Powell Civil Rights Memorial – Source:...
Double Takes is a blog about “destination and design”—two worlds that Lauren Kilberg vigorously explores and shares. With destination, Kilberg blogs about discoveries related to Africa , Cartography ...
Harder done than said, rather than “easier said than done”… There was theory at the ninth CreativeMornings event in Chicago, but it wasn’t left idly alone. In his presentation at architectural design...
While scanning the tweets by Brian Gardner, who founded the WordPress design framework, Studiopress, I discovered Susan Nelson. Her website and WordPress themes piqued my interest. She is a self-conf...
Website for The Curator’s Code When Maria Popova, the brainpower behind Brain Pickings, released The Curator’s Code on March 9, 2012, I hastened to use it. I have not yet applied it to Design Feast d...
Source: Susan Murphy Designer Susan Murphy has “a design of a time” at Edenspiekermann, a creative agency in the Netherlands. She was featured by GOOD Magazine as part of their series “Designing Wome...
Yoko Sakao Ohama, a designer and Studiomate, has a delightful feature on her website. It reveals the baseline grid upon which information rests. A pleasant pattern displays. More importantly, the lay...
Ariel Bolles playing with Anais Mitchell and Rachel Riesat the The Living Room in New York City. Photograph by Aurélie Coudière Ariel Bolles is a burgeoning freelance content strategist. In addition ...
Friendly placemat at Jim’s Restaurant in Huntington, West Virginia During the past months, I’ve been observing (from the vantage point of the table) some things at restaurants—mostly how owners/manag...
Photos by Nate Burgos The seventh CreativeMornings event in Chicago was charged with the meme of marriage. Organizer Mig Reyes kicked off the first Chicago CreativeMornings of 2012 with names t...
Image from series Imaginary Alphabets courtesy of Elizabeth Carey Smith I discovered Elizabeth Carey Smith via New York City’s Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne, who tweeted about Smith’s des...
Source: Ryan Evans. Thanks to ace graphic designer and art director Stephanie Di Biase, I was introduced to Ryan Evans, who has a bona fide best practice: he reaches out to see people he’s interested...
To discover illustrators, I browse both printed and online publications. Newspapers are great for this: numerous illustrators make compositions for written stories, particularly op-ed pieces. It was ...
2011 was another year charged with creativity. Here are the people, places and things that I enjoyed discovering and kept in mind, year-long: Everyone To echo my first highlight of 2010, I commend ev...
Photograph of Jay Ryan in his studio by Eric Nakamura The fifth CreativeMornings event in Chicago was a celebration of print. At the Chicago Portfolio School, who sponsored the event, The Bird Machin...
Source: SnOOp Sketches of chairs, circa 1943-1946. Source: studio international Plywood sculpture, Untitled, 1943. Source: studio international Biography by Fembio; Oral history interview (1980) • • •
Source: History of Graphic Design, The Digital Revolution Source: MIT Museum Source: Biography by Janet Abrams, Director, University of Minnesota Design Institute Source: Financial Viewpoints by Lisa...
The sixth CreativeMornings event in Chicago began with a civic call to duty by speaker Scott Thomas (or SimpleScott): Remain responsible. Not only a call, it was also a reminder, a philosophical one,...
Restoration drives renewal. At Steve Jobs’ annual back-to-school announcement (2010) of Apple’s new products and services, the news that kept my attention, more than the latest iPod Nanos and iPod To...
Like some of the previously reviewed books, looks good without the jacket. Following the review of Behance Founder and CEO Scott Belsky’s “Making Ideas Happen”, my collaborator Joe Giovenco and I rev...
Discovered via swissmiss, smartassdesign and Artforge “lovingly crafted” The DUMBO Improvement District (1) website. Some writers are adverse to adverbs, judging them as extraneous. But the use of an...
Based in his beloved city of Memphis, Tennessee, Stephen M. Hackett runs 512 Pixels, a weblog about technology, journalism and design. From Hackett, “The original Macintosh’s screen was 512 pixels ac...
Since seeing Apple’s “Think different” commercial when it aired during the late 1990s, I was hooked. At about a minute’s length, it’s one of the very few ads I enjoy, or even remember. I make it a po...
In his presentation at the fourth CreativeMornings event in Chicago, Jake Nickell emphasized from start to finish: make, make, make. As co-founder of the “monstrous” (per Jim Coudal’s description at ...
It was at Web Heroines where I discovered Jan Cavan, who runs Dawghouse Design Studio, a web-based portfolio “which also doubles as a design blog offering tutorials, freebies and inspiration to the d...
Eleanor Mayrhofer made the big transition from her corporate day job at an American internet firm, launching its operations in Germany, to her passion which is e.m. papers, a designer and producer of...
Since December 2008, I’ve been writing about the intersection of design and metals. Here’s an array of clickable images from recent stories concerning metal as a design medium:
Gabrielle Guy lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. Her design of a report for the “World Vision for their Child Health Now” campaign led me to her portfolio of book design, including artistic ...
With experience in web content and print publishing, as well as writing and editing, Hilary Marsh focuses on many factors in the creation, communication and management of information. Content strateg...
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