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02.28.2017
Chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis.
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• Doug Bartow
• Josh Berta
• Niki Blaker
• James I Bowie
• Ricardo Cordoba
• Diane Zerr
• Quipsologies, is a division of UnderConsideration, chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis.
• Quipsologies uses TypeKit to render P22 Underground, Skolar Web by TypeTogether, and Coquette by Mark Simonson.
• Quipsologies is run with Six Apart’s MovableType 6.8.8
• All comments, ideas and thoughts on Quipsologies are property of their authors; reproduction without the author’s or Quipsologies’s permission is strictly prohibited
• Search through our archives (starting with Vol. 45 September 2010)
UnderConsideration is a graphic design enterprise that runs a network of blogs, publishes books, organizes live events, and designs for clients.
online
Brand New / Displaying opinions, and focusing solely, on corporate and brand identity work.
FPO (For Print Only) / Celebrating the reality that print is not dead by showcasing the most compelling printed projects.
Brand New Classroom / Providing a space for critique and opinions on student identity work.
Speak Up (2002 – 2009) / Discussing, and looking for, what is relevant in, and the relevance of, graphic design. Archives Only.
Word It (2003 – 2010) / Encouraging creative diversity in the community through monthly, one-word challenges. Archives Only.
publishing
Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work / 2010, self-published.
Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design / 2009, Rockport.
Women of Design: Influence and Inspiration from the Original Trailblazers to the New Groundbreakers / 2008, HOW Books.
The Word It Book: Speak Up Presents a Gallery of Interpreted Words / 2007, HOW Books.
live events
2010 Brand New Conference / A one-day event on the development of corporate and brand identity projects by some of today’s most active and influential practitioners from around the world.
graphic design
Department of Design / Designing corporate and brand identities and full development of printed and digital matter for clients.
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Submitted by our readers and Quip’d by UnderConsideration
Ari Weinkle’s Growths project explores “juxtaposing the elegance of copperplate calligraphy with abnormal organic formations”. Be sure to check the wicked video at the link.
02.28.2017
Foundry.nu is trying to build the most comprehensive list of Type Foundries, ever. Submit your own choices.
02.28.2017
“Brutal East” by Zupagrafika provides 8 paper models to “playfully explore and reconstruct some of the most controversial brutalist edifices erected behind the Iron Curtain between 1960-1980s.”
02.28.2017
Logobook, curated by the design community Svizra, is a showcase for outstanding logos.
02.27.2017
The controversy around Vancouver’s new logo has quickly pivoted from “my 8-year-old could do that” to “it looks like” to “respect designers.”
02.25.2017
The Casual Optimist has a great post about Alan Aldridge, who died last week.
Shown here, top row, left to right: album covers for The Who (1966) and Elton John (1975).
Middle row: artwork from The Observer magazine (UK), November 1967, about The Beatles’ songbook.
Bottom row, left to right: Aldridge in 1970 (photograph: Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty) and in 2008 (photograph: Luke Hayes).
(More images here.)
02.24.2017