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Poster of the Week

Ghost

Designer: Ghost Client: Neenah Paper Size: 5.

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Author: John Foster

Topics: Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion

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Motorway Signs

Selected by monika parrinder

There's an oft-quoted motorway sign that when heading out of London on the M1, simply points north.

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Author: Steven Heller

Topic: Environmental Design

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Wedding Crashers: The Perfect Girl in Typography

Vince Vaughn sums up his feelings as illustrated in type

From the scene in the beginning of "Wedding Crashers" where Jeremy (Vince Vaughn) says what he really thinks about the idea of dating.

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Topic: Type

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Be a Lover of Books: Thoughts on Books

Book design places a unique set of demands on a graphic designer, asking simultaneously for a deep level of engagement as well as a surprising degree of restraint, along with substantive technical skills.

Topic: Profiles

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Ask Design Bi*ch: Creative Briefs are useful to both designers and clients

Q: Dear Design B*tch why should our design team bother with developing a Creative Brief? --Brit A: That's a great attitude.

Topics: Managing Design, Professional Development, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets

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Wedding Crashers: The Perfect Girl in Typography: Vince Vaughn sums up his feelings as illustrated in type

From the scene in the beginning of "Wedding Crashers" where Jeremy (Vince Vaughn) says what he really thinks about the idea of dating.

Topic: Type

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Garbino Trash Can: Karim Rashid for Umbra, 1997

The Garbino, a play on garbage and legendary silent film actress Greta Garbo, manages to combine the typically contradictory notions of "garbage" and "glamour" into a best-selling product deemed worthy of "art" status by numerous museums.

Topic: Product Design

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The daily grind . . . and grind . . . and grind . . .: Seth Cheeks, CheekyDSN

"You must know how to grind, grind, grind, as in work very hard and very smart.

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Big Puzzles: SpotCo; New York, New York, USA

What started out as a small studio specializing in the entertainment industry has grown under Drew Hodge's steady hand from Spot Design to SpotCo, a full-service advertising agency filled to the brim with talented creatives that, as In Theater magazine says, has created "a quiet revolution in Broadway marketing.

Topic: Profiles

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GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS: RESEARCH FINDINGS VISUALIZED: Research and Process

Graphic organizers are excellent visual tools that help designers connect concepts and see the relationships between information sets.

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Be Seductive: working with editors , illustrators , and information

While there are standard, intellectual, objective ways to evaluate the success of a design—is it balanced, does it communicate clearly, does it provide clues to the reader for navigating the piece?—design is an artistic as well as commercial enterprise and, as such, has the power to reach for so much more than mere competency.

Topic: Layouts

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Process Makes Perfect: Best Practices

But the truth is that there's almost always some sort of carryover, and that most redesigns can't succeed without knowing what to keep.

Topic: Branding Identity

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Nazario Graziano

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