Ad Reinhardt fretted about the meaning of life. He agonized about the purpose of painting. He questioned everyone, critiqued everything, and worked incessantly. In other words, he was a graphic designer.
Assigned a page of an atlas for a graduate class in graphic design at the Yale School of Art, Eric Nevin created a log of love letters to the islands of the sub-Antarctic. The writing charmed us and the history adds something to our understanding of
Designers often bemoan the lack of coverage given to graphic design in mainstream media. Yet when design catches the attention of journalists and commentators it usually results in a vicious mugging rather than hearty praise.
This post is the source for the most definitive/recent/tested method (in the scope of this blog) of gzipping your CSS when either Apache compression module is not available for use. Note: This post was originally published on June 13th, 2004. It is
You may not have heard of Martin J. Weber, but he was a graphic artist, typographer, art director, and most important, inventor of various photographic techniques that gave two-dimensional surfaces the illusion of being reproduced in three dimension
The San Antonio Express-News has changed up its front page, saying it needs to reflect the reality of readers being "more informed, more wired &emdash; and yes, much more busy taking it all in." There's an "interactive" graphic online...
We Are Play is the name for 6 French graphic designers that do visual performances during events. Their name speaks volumes about their work. It all seems to be in play, some play seems to be with the style, some with the technique, but it all demon
I first met Sol Lewitt in 1986, when he and Carol and their young daughters moved to Chester, Connecticut, a small town on the Connecticut River where I have a graphic design studio. We met at an opening at the Chester Gallery...
Edward Tufte has a short paean (with many examples) to Megan Jaegerman, a graphic artist at The New York Times from 1990-1998. Her work is smart, finely detailed, elegant, witty, inventive, informative. A fierce researcher and reporter, she writes..
Hardly a day goes by without me using this awesome web application. Out of the ever amazing Adobe Labs, comes Kuler - a color choosing, creating, designing, modifying, mixing, matching web application that makes choosing a color scheme easy - even i
In 1945, architect-turned-graphic-designer Donal McLaughlin designed a lapel pin for a conference in 1945 that became one of the most widely seen symbols in the world: the emblem for the United Nations. Tomorrow is his 100th birthday.
Leon Friend (born in Warsaw in 1902) was a career art teacher at the Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, New York, with a special passion for what he called graphic design. This is his story and his influence.
Maybe it’s just me, but I hate when I clients says, “just do whatever, we trust you.� As much as I like creative freedom, I hate having to remake good designs; which is what usually happens when the client gives me creative guidelines.
Aw the days of grunge; Kurt Cobain, torn jeans, and flannel jackets. How could a fad like that ever fade away?rnrnThe grunge style is a great way to create some visualy stunning designs and websites. Grunge styles let you break away from the
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