[Ted Bertz] After recently finishing a personal project, a book commemorating posters completed from 1987 to 2008 for an agricultural fair held each year in Durham, Conn. — Fair Play: Twenty-three years of Durham Fair Posters — Ted Bertz, founder of Bertz Design Group, reflects on the evolution of the graphic design industry over the same period.
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Beautiful photos + beautiful prints = Edition One Hundred[Cat Jimenez] I started Edition One Hundred because I love to collect art and photography, and most of the art that I loved was simply out of my price range. Art is an act of creation, the love child of passion and imagination, and the results are revered as a testament to our spiritual nature. But the artist, being human, needs to eat, and to sell these objects changes a personal act into a commercial experience. Furthermore >
The art of being Daisy Carlson[Alyson Kuhn] If you’ve frequented high-end stationery and specialty stores over the past 20 years, chances are good that you have admired, and possibly caressed, an Italian leather-bound journal made by Daisy Arts. Now, Daisy Carlson has refined and refocused her design energies on “beautiful solutions for the world’s biggest problems,” she says. “‘Use less, live more” is the easiest way to sum up my design work these days.” Her love of fine paper is undiminished. Furthermore >
‘Contributing to the conversation’ about books & paper[Tom Biederbeck] How on earth did I, a fan of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated, miss the publication of his novel Tree of Codes? Was it during my Dark Period, when I was up in the saucers being analyzed by schwa-like aliens? Tree of Codes tells a story, but it’s also the kind of book that gets you thinking about form and content. And it has something to say about the future of the book — as an object, a carrier of meaning, and an agent of transformation. Furthermore >
I dig history — literally & figuratively.[Kate Blackman] Here is my story of working with my professor, falling into a bagful of family memorabilia, feeling just a bit like Indiana Jones, photocopying for hours and hours … and, through creating my family portrait, ultimately realizing how much I want to encourage other people to explore their roots in a meaningful way. Furthermore >
Destination: Design is Love[Troy Monroe] A little over a week ago Design is Love celebrated its first anniversary. I’m excited about the progress we’ve made sharing this initiative with a worldwide audience, and the yearlong journey has proved our inclinations to be fact: We can build meaningful relationships by sharing creative ideas and leveraging emotional connections to deepen the work on which we collaborate. It’s not just about doing great “work” — it’s about doing great things together that help shape a community around the idea of “do good.” Furthermore >
The 4 essentials of a design critiqueNearly all designers give and receive critiques in art school. It’s the most common means of formally discussing positive and negative criticism about a creative solution. Clients typically haven’t been trained in this technique, yet are constantly required to provide feedback on design. Terry Lee Stone’s new two-book series, Managing The Design Process — Concept Development and Implementing Design — offers insights and guidance on how to successfully orchestrate all aspects of the intricate collaborative partnership between designer and client, including how to critique design. Furthermore > |
Independent filmmaker, actress and writer Miranda July has a way with words, even when she’s writing them on her stove. Her latest demonstration of wordsmithery (a word I made up) is evident in her “I want to kiss this person” poster, which she suggests is “a good thing to have in your home if words fail. Sort of like mistletoe, but less ambitious.” Furthermore >
07.27.11
Brazilian shoe company Melissa, maker of eco-friendly 100% recyclable plastic shoes, teamed up with Post-It to create a unique marketing campaign for a new line of shoes: Melissa Power of Love. The company used 350,000 colorful stickies to create vibrant designs, covering the outside walls of the Galeria Melissa in São Paulo. Furthermore >
07.26.11
We ‘re always excited to have the opportunity to give back to the community. This week we are happy to announce a partnership with charity: water, an organization committed to bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. Read more about the water crisis and what you can do to help here. Furthermore >
07.25.11
Our friends at Design Observer have posted a marvelous slide show of winning posters from the Chicago 2010 Poster Biennial, which we most recently wrote about here. Furthermore >
07.24.11
Finally! TED curator, Chris Anderson has put into writing what I hear people grumbling about all day long — and, yes, that includes me: “Stop the e-mail madness, please!” Thanks to Anderson’s Email Charter we can now point to a standard of practice for e-mail etiquette. (You know you’re guilty too.) Furthermore >
07.22.11
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