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Mother loves BNE
BNE Was Here sticker -- Photo taken in Sukhumvit, Bangkok by Nat Wein Thanks to Mother I recently interviewed, via email, a graffiti artist known as BNE. Mother is big ad agency with big clients (like Coca-Cola and Stella Artois), that does interesti...
Celeste Prevost: Designisfine
Celeste Prevost After a stint in Colorado where she earned recognition for a clean, often humorous body of work now detailed on her newly redesigned site Designisfine, designer/illustrator Celeste Prevost has landed her creative talents in Minneapoli...
Creative Photoshop CS4 by Derek Lea
ou don’t need me to tell you that Creative Photoshop CS4 is not your typical Photoshop book. The cephalopod woman on the cover does that pretty well. Now that that’s out of the way, let me first explain that this book is a new edition of ...
Does Bad Branding Indicate Bad Products?
I have some very important questions for you: (1) Have you been injured in a work related accident? (2) Are you struggling to lose those love handles nobody loves? (3) Is your home worth less than you owe? You’ve heard these questions before, es...
Agnieszka Gasparska: Kiss Me I’m Polish
Agnieszka Gasparska at her KMIP storefront HQ (Photo: Andrea Brizzi – www.andreabrizzi.com) Agnieszka Gasparska is the Creative Director and founder of design firm Kiss Me I’m Polish. Her clients include GOOD, Thrillist, Refinery29, Ertegun ...
Jeff Hamada: Booooooom
Jeff Hamada is a self-described small Japanese artist working out of Vancouver, BC. He was recently selected as one of 100 artists to collaborate with Converse and Product(RED) to celebrate Converse’s 100th year anniversary. He currently freela...
Secrets in Design
I have trouble keeping a secret. But I delight in finding them. An author’s inside joke, a superfluous self portrait, well-designed error pages, virtual Easter eggs, are all fun secrets to uncover in design. One of my design heroes, Ootje Oxenaar,...
Camilla Meijer: Bringing the Outdoors Inside
Born in Sweden, Camilla Meijer is a London-based pattern designer specializing in wallpaper and textiles. Camilla’s technical training in Graphic Design has taken her on an unexpected, botanical path of pattern design. She elegantly draws upon her...
Photoshop CS4: What’s New and What’s Missing in Masking
Extracting detailed objects from a background can be a tricky thing in Photoshop, particularly when dealing with fuzzy edges like hair, fur, and leaves of trees. The Quick Selection tool and the Refine Edge feature introduced in Photoshop CS3 go a l...
Making The Old New Again
Since it’s Friday, and because New York Fashion Week starts a week from today, we’re going to bring a little glamour into today’s post and take a look at the redesign of Interview magazine. Andy Warhol’s old pop culture bible has gotten a fac...
Letters to Letter Carriers
My neighborhood features dozens of examples of information design: notes to the mail service team. Residents create hand- and computer- generated notes to articulate the specifics of home architecture (“mail slot is in the alley on the left”), wh...
Discontent Designers
Poster by Milton Glaser Design and politics have been on my mind lately (see yesterday’s post) and apparently, I’m not alone. Eastern Michigan University Gallery has invited some of today’s most illustrious design stars to show posters that t...
Exhibiting Graphic Design
Graphic design in the gallery can come across like a fish out of water. The gallery context facilitates engagement through looking and has historically discouraged touching or using. Design is made for the public to use and enjoy. The context of use ...
Millenium Promise Competition Winners
An image from Jisuk Jung’s winning campaign Back in March we wrote about Design 21’s Millenium Promise competition. Now the winners have been selected. First prize went to the animated campaign “Eight Goals” by Jisuk Jung of South Korea. ...
Coming To A Small Screen Near You
Those of us who missed this film’s theatrical release last fall can now enjoy the captivating feature-length indie in the comfort of our own lap top as the movie has just become available for download on iTunes. “Helvetica”, which is direc...
