Designed by Michael Bagnardi. I’m always pushing students into getting their work out there—it’s all about doing shit that matters. I love to promote great opportunities—NOT spec work. 99designs is a perfect example of this unscrupulous practice. The difference being that spec or speculative work is a method used by for-profit businesses use to get Read more…
1977 Powers of Ten is one of the Eameses’ best-known films. Since it was produced in 1977, it has been seen by millions of people both nationally and internationally. As with A Communication Primer and 2n (a 2-minute Peep Show from the exhibition, Mathematica), in this film, Charles and Ray employed the system of exponential powers to visualize the Read more…
A great collection for Communication Designers Chuck Jones: The Dot and the Line Based on the book by Norton Juster from 1963, this 1965 short film won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film. Created by classic animation artist Chuck Jones, the story was inspired by a the Victorian novella Read more…
Recognized as one of the most influential typographers of the 20th century Herb Lubalin provided more than amazing letterforms, he boldly designed groundbreaking imagery that tackled taboo topics in politics and erotica. I remember visiting the Lubalin Center as a college student in the late eighties and eagerly waiting for Read more…
Michael Beirut talks about the creative influence from his first job with Massimo and Lela Vignelli. In Studio With: Massimo Vignelli from Design Indaba on Vimeo. The elegant and enthusiastic man that taught us the rules of modernism as applied to graphic design will be greatly missed but his canon will remain. Since his Read more…
Fun Fact: Rumor has it that legendary food critic Anton Ego from Pixar’s Ratatouille was inspired by graphic designer Milton Glaser. It is hard to deny the resemblance. Link from Unbeige. When I introduce my students to Milton Glaser, I refer to him as the “Grandaddy of Graphic Design” because in Read more…
In the past few years, hand-lettering has proliferated industries of publishing and fashion, restaurants, retail, and outdoor spaces. It seems to be more than just a fad craft and many fine designers are sharing their secrets. Here is a collection of helpful lessons and tutorials to help you get started or Read more…
Helvetica is a feature-length documentary about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Butterick’s Practical Typography is a wonderful resource. If you are in a hurry it gives you what you need to know Read more…
provided by retinart.net “A method to produce the perfect book.” The perfect book. This is how designer-genius Jan Tschichold described this system. Not the ok book, nor the pretty good book, but the perfectbook. This method existed long before the computer, the printing press and even a defined measuring unit. No picas or points, no inches or Read more…
