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Designisms

http://designis.ms

A graphic design and art history blog providing inspiration, resources and freebies for creative professionals and students.

Added on: Mar 25th, 2008
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Peter
Listed in: Graphic Design Graphic Design
Tags: art web design graphic design Film print design motion graphics

Recent Posts

Designer Steven Heller interviews author Dave Eggers

Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 10:22 in Film, interview, dave eggers, spike jonze, where the wild things are, maurice sendak, the wild things

I’m a fan of both Steven Heller and Dave Eggers, so I thought I would share this interview from Core77. The two discuss Eggers’ and Spike Jonze’s vision in the film adaptation of “Where The Wild Things Are”, as well as h...
The Epic Battle of Crowdsourcing : Pt 1

Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 14:20 in Microsoft, commentary, crowdsourcing, threadless, bogusky, istock, crispin porter + bogusky, crowdsource, no-spec, spec work, crowdspring, graham smith

Peter asked me to write an article regarding crowdsourcing because like Graham Smith, I don’t think crowdsourcing is entirely evil, but I’m a pretty staunch critic of spec-work. Here’s the thing: I grew up on the internet. Okay. Ple...
IxDA 2010 Global Student Competition

Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 13:06 in georgia, conference, interaction design, savannah, design competition, interactive design, ixda, interaction design association, ixd, interaction 10

The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) has launched a new student design competition as part of their Interaction 10 conference. The theme of the competition is “Excellence in Interaction Design” and is open to any individual student o...
Art & Copy Film Trailer

Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 11:10 in Film, Advertising, scratch, errol morris, adbusters, mad men, doug pray, surfwise, madison ave, hype!, art and copy, art & copy

The film, Art & Copy, by Doug Pray (Surfwise, Scratch, Hype!) documents the creative direction and inspiration found in the last fifty years of the advertising industry. While Pray is used to filming the independent, underground side of culture (...
iPhone Development with Adobe Flash CS5

Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 17:46 in apple, iphone, actionscript 3, adobe flash, iphone sdk, interactive design, flash develop, flash on iphone, iphone develop

Yep, you read it right. The capability to develop iPhone apps using Actionscript 3 is finally upon us. Before the end of the year, Adobe plans on releasing the beta version of the next major release of Adobe Flash Professional (CS5), which will allow...
A Plea to Graphic Designers on Craigslist

Posted on Friday October 2nd, 2009 at 17:29 in craigslist, compensation, commentary, freelance, per hour, what to charge

A funny request on Craigslist that I happen to agree with! these companies are really taking advantage of us—WE ARE PROFESSIONALS JUST LIKE ANY OTHER—10$ an hour ?????? INTERNS???? AND they want you to know print and web HOW COULD WE SURV...