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The Anatomy of Design: Uncovering the Influences and Inspirations in Modern Graphic Design / Postmodern Bible Stories / Fresh Dialogue 6: Friendly Fire / Typography 26 / Dialogue: Relationships In Graphic Design / The Face of Human Rights / D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself / Hillman Curtis on Creating Short Films for the Web / This Ain't No Disco: New Wave Album Covers / Robert Brownjohn: Sex And Typography / More Paperwork / Evil Doesn't Live Here: Posters of the Bosnian War / Freitag: Individual Recycled Freeway Bags / Cipe Pineles: Two Remembrances / Fresh Dialogue Five / Design Research / America (The Book) / Graphic Agitation 1 and 2 / The Bauhaus Ideal: Then and Now / How to Grow as a Graphic Designer / Rethink Redesign Reconstruct / Grid Systems / House Industries / Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility / False Flat / Zing / They Say They Want a Revolution: What Marketers Need to Know as Consumers Take Control / Make it Bigger / Thinking with Type / Profile: Pentagram Design / Changing Faces / Designing for People / Supermarket / Singing to the Deaf / 20th Century Type, New and Revised Edition / Citizen Brand / Peace: 100 Ideas / The Project 50 (Reinventing Work) / The Culting of Brands: When Customers Become True Believers / The Designer’s Guide to Astounding Photoshop Effects / Nozone IX : EMPIRE / H.C. Ericson: Corpus / Logo, Font & Lettering Bible / Creating the Perfect Design Brief / Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter / Dot Dot Dot #7 / Fresh Dialogue 3 & 4 / No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism / karlssonwilker inc.'s tellmewhy: The First 24 Months of a New York Design Company / The Illustrated Voice by Craig frazier / Kyle Cooper by Andrea Codrington / Project M — Vol. 1 / Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Progressive Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century by Steve Heller / I am Almost Always Hungry by Cahan & Associates / The Substance of Style by Virginia Postrel

Chasing the Perfect part 2 / Chasing the Perfect part 1 / Screen — First Session / Questions for Screen are Ready / Third Book Club: Screen / Third Book for Book Club / Go Rant on Rant / Book Club : Fair Warning / Emigre 64 › Rant / Next Book Club: Rant / Second Book / The Cheese Monkeys - Spring Semester / The Cheese Monkeys - Fall Semester / GD Book Club - Book 1, Week 1 / Design Book Club - Book No. 1 / Graphic Design Book Club

Experience Vs. Opportunity, in Brief / Designer Sobriety: More than a Twelve Step Process / Client Taxonomy: Bruisers, Nodders, and Champions / Thanks, Toast. / Have You Hugged Your Client Lately? / Justice League of Designers / To Brag or Not to Brag / Bad Behavior / What does a portfolio look like these days? / I got Laid on Halloween / On the Value of Design: A look at Stationery Package Creative Fees / Cough up the Files Buddy — V2.0 / certifiable / Defying Gravity:When your Company Exists in the Ether Above your Head / From the Ground, Font and Pantone Swatch Book Up / The New Competition / The Improbable Art of Estimating / Freelance Nation / A Career in Graphic Design — in Three Acts / A Service or Product? / Mr. Kaneign and Mr. Wolfe Discuss Work / Where’s the Truth? / Tax Tips, Tricks & Techniques / And now for something completely different… / Getting in the Door… and Staying in / A Thought on Commercial Design / Learning Curve / Instant Design / Time Tracker / How’s it Going? / Love over Money / How the Other Half Lives / Making Chicken Liver Smell Like Peppermint / Accountability / Speak Up Goes to Harvard and Survives / Net Worth-less / Living La Vida Solo / Temperature Check / monopoly! / Apples and Oranges / Cough up the Files Buddy / Business Questions / Business Resources / Project Too Big? / More Than Artists? / Working With Others / Say ‘no’ to Tax Cuts. Please. / Designers/Retailers / Spec’ This! (again*) / Can’t with, can’t without

Contracts, Lawyers and Ethics / Design Organizations - Why Bother? / I’m a Designer. I don’t Sell Logos. / Is it Really That Bad Out There? / Why is the Business of Design so Hard?

Hancock: A Poster Critique / iNeed: Technology, Theft, and Desire? / If you can Read this URL you are Driving too Close / Sales Copy Gone Wild / Visual Literacy and the International Male Image / On “Just”, Awesomeness, and ™ / Bookmarkography: How Things Fall Apart / Money should Stink / Wine in a what? / If a Tree Falls in Times Square and Nobody Notices, have Designers Failed? / Globalization’s Unspoken Costs: A Response to Christopher Liechty / The Instrument: Telescreen in the Briefing Room / A G who Believed Itself to be a Fish / W[h]ither The Conference? / What Type Are You? / Ready, aim, fire! / Designers, heal thyselves / ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION Design Observer Observed / Wartime Web: The Military Escalates Its Online Presence / Careful Design / Are We That Boring? / The Dude Abides / Dear Emigre, Tag, you are Dead! / Ferocious Kitty-cats / Dangling Listicles / Design the Vote / AIGA National Conference Focused Session: Who Will Lead Design In The 21st Century? / AIGA National Conference: The Future / AIGA National Conference: A Non-Review / AIGA National Conference: Review Part II / AIGA National Conference: Review Part I / Burning Bridges and Building Community / “Progress” in Current On-Air Graphics / CritiqueThe Alphabet / Industrial Design and Business / Design Equals WritingOr, a Rough Reaction to the Quiet Excitement Generated by the Publication of David Barringer’s American Mutt / Room Service, Anyone? / Posterchild / MOVE — But, Where? / Jenny Craig or Bust / This Way to the Excess / MTV2: New Dog, Old Tricks? / The Meaning is The Use / Why Awareness is not Enough / Target: Design For All? / Triage / The Yellow Ruth / 2004’s Best & Worst / Speak Up Poster Critique › 121-153 / Speak Up Poster Critique › 91-120 / Speak Up Poster Critique › 61-90 / Speak Up Poster Critique › 31-60 / Speak Up Poster Critique › 01-30 / ’Til We Meet Again / CD Packaging, I Knew Ye Well / Gain Vision, Gain Value / Massive PostPart 4 / Massive PostPart 3 / Massive PostPart 2 / Massive PostPart 1 / It’s All About the Money / State of the State of the Protest / Food Fight / Hazardous Freedom / Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll… and Print? / Emigre 66 › Mute / Emigre 66 › No More Rules / Hell, Maybe! / Emigre 66 › Dumb Ideas / Emigre 66 › Preface / Fat Fight / A Different Kind of Award / What are we Doing? / Shelves of Inspiration / Skin Deep / A Branded Education / The Icky Mouse Club / Design: Alive and Well, and Living in the Midwest / From Objects to Experiences / ~~Uni~~ ted / Design of the year? / Review - The Power of Design Part V / Thanks AIGA / Review - The Power of Design Part IV / What Happens Next? / welcome to the ranks, private. / Review - The Power of Design Part III / Review — The Power of Design Part II / Review — The Power of Design Part I / AIGA Conference — Blow by Blow / Book Cover Reviews, Reviewed! / The Emperor’s New Tailor / seriouSeries No. 1 — Rick Valicenti / Even God Needs a Masthead / Does Your Kid Have Good Taste? / Design Clichés / Adplacers / Green means…stop? / Window Maximizing. How Rude! / New Creative Zine: Idanda / AIGA L.A. Pays Homage to ‘92 Riots / Bringing Why to Life / Gigposters, Good Gigs? / Making the Invisible Visible / Got Change for a Twenty? / AIGA: Listen Up / mrowr! / a brief, albeit amusing, history of desktop publishing / The ~~Dangers~~ Humour of Poor Information Graphics / AIGA Chicago Incite/Insight Series / Dusting Off a Classic / Penguin Classics’ new look / HOW Online Finally Redesigned / Catchy titles / Not so Kinky / News You can Read / Design’s Top 100 - Part 2 / The Art of Graphic Wit / Brand Council / Design’s Top 100 / Interactive Should Not Translate to Poor Design / …Just a Thought / Loglobalization / Cool? / it’s a Wide World After All / One Look for All / Face Lifts / Music by Design - CD vs Vinyl / Music by Design / Slow Company / Shelf Presence / 18 and Counting

April Fools: An Unsung Modernist-era Hero/a> / Bookmarks: USA / Bookmarks: Netherlands / Interview with Font Bureau’s Dyana Weissman / Bookmarks: Spain / Bookmarks: France / An Eye for an Eye: A Visual Remembrance of Lou Dorfsman, 1918 – 2008 / The Stenberg Brothers in 200 Words / Nagi Noda (1973 – 2008) / Otl Aicher: An Expanded, Abridged Story / It’s on the Internet, so it must be True: I was a Member of Push Pin Studios / Alex Trochut: From Barcelona with Love / Frederic Goudy: 1 in 9 million / Corita / Henry Wolf / Design Writing Research / The Pixies ruined Everything / Paula Scher Redux / Who’s Making Waves? / What makes Rand so great? / Thirst Goes Universal / Portland Design / Introductions / New York City. / Dear Old Dwiggins / A Couple of Mexicans / Monday Variety / Barry Deck / Victore: Open 23 Hours / Friday Variety / This is Cho Good / Chicago: More than Sausages / Tomato / I Want my MTV / Variety / Kidd has you Covered / Timeless / Powerhouse? / Pee-Kay / April / Pixel Goddess / No Eye Candy / Mix with Design / Design Spice / Hungry? / Chase

How Designers Fail / Writing Books for Graphic Design Students / Of Fonts and Students / Grad School: Beast, Burden, or Blessing? / The Workshop as Fuel for Creativity / Student Economics / The 1960s Revolutions: Race, Sex, Culture, and Design Education / a mini canon? / what to teach/who should teach / Attention! / Design School Part 3 - getadesigneducationonlinerightnow.com / Design School Part 2 - Can a line be Happy? / A Design Matriarchy? / Design School Part 1 - Moments / The Wind Tunnel / your theory on design theory / Sure, You Walk The Walk… / remembering ronald reagan / Writing a Masters Thesis is hard / From the Eyes of a Student, Again and Again / Playground / What is Useful History? / What would you tell them? / A Teacher’s Point of View / Life After School / Rules of Engagement / they crawled out of the woodwork / 2003 Advertising & Design Club Student Competition / The ~~Dell~~ Mac Interns / Too Cool for School? / Design in Bloomfield Hills / Fabrica

Typo Terror / The Great Leap Forward / A Letter to President-Elect Obama from a Young Designer / The Visual Perils of Graphic Design History / Wanted: Fierce Graphic Designers / Glide’08: The Infrastructure of the Web as Design Education / Design Cities: Where you at? / A Case for Pink / Judging Books by their Covers and Movies by their Posters / Getting Proper Feedback from Clients / Dear Mr. Bierut, / Interestingly Trite / The Video Flipthrough is the New Finger Hold / Pay Attention and Give a Shit / The Wall that Lou Dorfsman Built / See Jane Die / Booksourcing: Design Books / To Collaborate, or Not to Collaborate / Booksourcing: Identity / Booksourcing: Magazines / Booksourcing: Books / Upgrade my Nation / Booksourcing: Packaging / Booksourcing: Posters / You’ve Got Letter / The Graphic Manipulator / Got Rituals? / Jury Duty / Landmark Web Sites, Where Art Thou? / The Mommy Track: Six Months In / Up Next for AIGA: Next and 2015 / The Ultimate Brand Experience from the Unlikeliest Brand: D’oh!Or, Overanalyzing The Simpsons / Dark and Fleshy: The Color of Top Grossing Movies / The Perils of “Designed by Committee” as a Pejorative / Doing What Matters / Typography, The Good and The Evil / The Contest as Fuel for Creativity / Intellectual Property, Ripoffs, And What Have You / Crouching Towards Bethlehem / Graphic Designer vs./and/or Mom / They Might (Not) Be Giants / Thoughts on Portfolios from Someone Making One / Speak Up: Now What? / The Siren Song of the Personal Project / Public Surveillance? / Does Design Matter in a Big Museum? / Game On: The Battle of White and Black / Model Transformation / Endangered Culture: New Orleans’ Mardi Gras Indians / Dealing with “Women” Part I: The Rant / Avon, Mary Kay, Tupperware, Levi's, MTV and YouTube: A Continuum of Community / The Half Full / 21: The Magic Number / D.I.F.Y. / Here. Not Anywhere Else. / Chasing the Perfect part 1.1 / Going Postal / Design vs. Designers / Contrast in the News / The David Bowie Rules / Drowned Alive: Performance Art or Performance Stunt? / Thinking vs. Feeling / The Printer’s Devil’s Dictionary / Culture of the Quick / Those Pesky, Somewhat Dreaded, Utterly Irrestistable Four Things / Computer = Fart, or Digital Immersion Is Not Design / Logo-Licious or Lame?Fortune Decides / The m5 Optimistic Globalization / Seeing Red (hardly) / I’ve got dust in my eyes… / Seeing Instead of Reading? / Pizza Flyers: The Height of Good Graphic Design? / Attack of the blogs! / Still Going, and Going, and…. / Is God Really In The Details? / Test for Hire / To Shop or Not To Shop / No Work? No Problem. Part II: Distinguishing Yourself / Designimator: Fact or Fiction? / Almighty Designer, The / Tiger: Love It, Reinstall Panther, or Buy More RAM (formerly Tiger: Love It or Hate It) / on-again-off-again revolving door / Surviving Business Travel / The creative works of General Motors / Flip-flops or Oxfords? / It Seems As Though The Whole World Is Reading Today / Redesigning A Design Magazine / I’m with Stupid / Moving On / Is graphic design enough for a lifetime? / Designer Awards / what are words worth? / It Is So Amazing Here / Why the Y? / The End of the World as we Know it? / critique? / Opportunity or Opportunistic? / The Sublime and Ridiculous / Love ’em or hate ’em / 42. / The Secret Life of our Designs / Design Metrics / 15 minutes at 300 degrees / You’ve got to serve someone / Design Leadership / $.75 per minute / Clients: The Good, The Bad & the Ugly / What do you do? / Economic Temperature Check / Portland Posters / Focus Group Test / Y’know… for da kids / My First Love / “Graphic” Design? / It’s All About Options / A Plea for Stickers / Sweetheart, let me tell you a story… / Task a Minute / Up Next: Reviving Late 1990s Buzzwords / Nothing New Under the Sun / What is Design? / The “C” word / To Hell with Mentoring / The Design of Space / Neither Rain, nor Sleet / Pornography Perils / You Read Best what you (don’t) Read Most / Beyond the Looking Glass / Never Good Enough / We Are You? / Up Front / In Last Place? / That Sound You Hear Sucking / Design is for the Rich / Designer on Designer / In Search of Authenticity / The Grass is Always Greener… / AIGA Leadership Retreat - St. Louis / Believing the Good in Brands / Always a Student / Truth Before Trend / World Events and Creative Juices / Looking in the Mirror and Flexing / How Do You Do It? / Armin Vit’s Recliner of Rage / Canvas Trends / Should Graduates Start Their Own Businesses? / Does Evil Empire Equal Poor Design?Is New Automatically Bad?Are we Making Sense? / tortilla flats / Hiring Young, Recent Graduates — Why or Why Not? / my, how things change / the big bang / Spectrum Scheming / Designer Wages and Cost of Living / Where do Trends Begin? / Presidential Candidate, Graphic Design, Grassroots… Right on! / CEOC, MD, VP, JD, SCD, ED… / Is Communication still a Viable Communication Method? / Ah HA! Success! / Logo, Company Name, Slogan, Name, Title, Address, Phone, Fax, Cel, Email, Web Address / Those Who Can, Teach / Design and the Written Word / Can You Have a Life? / Clients. / The Web isn’t Print: A Reminder / Design Types / A Verb or a Noun? / Failure is Not an Option! / Designspeak / Risky Business / my precioussssssss / What if… We Ran the Show? / Lowest Common Decorator / you want fries with that? / Es el Diseño Gröfico Universal? / Are There Too Many Of Us? / Ergo / Thinking the Way we Think / Do Non-selected Comps go to Heaven or Hell? / Pinned Down / Where’s the Love? / Under the Microscope / Mayflies / Open to Interpretation? / 20/20 / Who Made the Marks? / Taking Credit / Unseen Things / My, That’s A Very Large Book You Have There / Designers’ Office Fetish / Designer Cars / för thösë äböüt tö röck… / Futurism / Beg, Borrow and Steal / The Right Answer / The Power of Election Design? / The Graphic Designer Handbook / Why (objectively) are you a Graphic Designer? / How ’bout them Awards? / What Can You Do? / Are the Ladies in the House? / Design is Newsweekworthy / Covered-up Quiz / (pre) The Power of Design / The Process of Design / “When did you first fall in love with hip-hop?” / hunting the horny backed toad / Any Ballot Designers in the House? / To Spec or not to Spec? / Midlife Crisis — Does it Affect Designers? / All About The Jacksons (Not Those Jacksons) / Nobody Did it Better / B.U.G. (Big Urban Game) / Better Living Through QuarkXPress / Designers for Democracy? / What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Designers Love Conferences / What do brands mean to you? / Graphic Design now sold on Ebay / All You Need is Fame / Confess and Be Absolved / Graphic Design Can Prevent Hunger / The Diversity of Design / What’s Wrong with Speak Up? / How to Apply Bad Logos / Design Regrets / “Aesthetics is the killer app.” / Design Speak / Couching a Critique / Asking the Tough Questions / Profiles in Courage / Summer Movies / Hell No — Reviewed / Dream Project / Is the Dark Side Prevailing? / Multiple Design Options: Should Clients Be the One to Choose? / Help for “Design Help” / Your Favorite Designer / To Board or not to Board? / If I Were Famous… / Plays Well With Others / AIGA: Sold Out / Dept. of Maniacal Obsessiveness / What Makes a Graphic Designer? / Happy Earth Day ’03 / is kaletra right for you? / Emigre No. 64—“Rant” / All the Ladies in the House say “Yeah” / Where do you Draw the Line? / War: “Apologies to…” / Does Technology Dictate Trends? / Your First Logo / Why is design important? / News Channels Rely on Stars / Usability Question / International Women’s Day / Career Switcharoo / Big. Small. You. / And the Oscar Goes to… / Questions for Ellen Lupton / Graphic Design vs. Art / Leaving a Job / Showmanship Over Craftsmanship? / The Allure of Paper / Design vs. Advertising / Celebrity = Automatic “Oooh-Ah” Factor? / From Design to Designing / Fonts on Your Desktop / A New Year / Print or Web? or Both? / ‘Tis the Season for Catalog Design / Role Reversal / Designer’s Price Tag / Top 10 Records of 2002 / More Inspiration / Time Will Tell / Greetings From Seattle / Experimental / The Importance of Graphic Design / Who Do(n’t) You Love? / Walker / Coffee Table Books / Recycling Ideas / Design by Numbers / Fight Club / Color Me Good / Typos: Web and Print / Royalty-free ain’t that Bad / Design Deals / Rockin’ Design / Pedigree / Straight? Edge? / Oh no! / Awards? No, Never. / Ethics? Hahaha / Bad Boy / The Eternal Debate / Spec’ This!

Media Safe Havens / I D O D E C L A R E / Cuteness and Green Design for a Brighter, Cuter Future / Not The Party She Planned / Pick One / Rick Poynor: Ipse Dixit / Untitled / unclear, although / The Zign is on the Wall / Bare Bones / War Effort / Pity… / Laura Fields and the Page Three Sutra / Logophobia / The Discovery and Use of Appropriation, by a Conflicted “Graphic Design Student” / Got Game? / Serving It Up / An homogenized world? / One Size Fits All / If you’re Bad we’re Going to McDonalds. / Will I? / Life is Choices / Design Entrepreneurship: Is It Right For You? / Condemned Paper / Designing for Deception / ADHD, Creativity, & The Commercial Art Industry / Keep It Simple, Stupid:The Case for Reviving Communication / Cha- Cha- Change … / MONEY: The Branding of a Country through the Design of its Currency / A Century of Candy Bars: An Analysis of Wrapper Design / The Best Book in the World / For the Love of the Game / For Keepsake! / “This is historic times.”-George W. Bush, April 20, 2004 / A Contribution to the Ethical Taxonomy of Political Signage / The Once and Future Brand / Individuality Lost / Design and Meaning / Graphic Design as Weapon of Territorial Terror / The Agony of DeFeet / Fluid Prose / Concrete Poetry / Design’s Glass Ceiling / No Work? No Problem, Part I: Shaping Your Image / Please be Careful / Graphic Design in Search of Conscience / Is that a Graphic Designer with your Client, or are you just Happy to See me? / One Thousand-Forty-Two Words on Challenging Assumptions

Pervasive.Advertising.Mobi / Open Letter to Adobe / Data Mining / Laptop Buying Guide for Designers / Open Source…for designers? / MacWorld Yummies / 2B or not 2B / Tech Tuesday: Apple Unveils AirPort Express / Tech Tuesday: Jumbo Shrimp / Tech Tuesday: Send and Receive / Tech Tuesday: Conceptualize, Organize, and Diagram / Open Source Design? / Hardware Geeks / This Old Mac / Apple Happenings / Software Hardware alliances / Apple trumps competition again / Quark — Here it is / (Be)Light Friday Reading / Keynote - Raising the Mediocrity Bar? / Don’t Just Delete, DELETE / Optimaze Opti-may-not / Laptops Vs. Desktops / A Designer’s Worst Nightmare / Time for InDesign? / Private Character Editor / Software Dispute / Friday 13th / Happy Mac

An International Poster Biennial Winds up in Chicago / Newborn: In more Ways than One / Globalization and Design / The Berlin Voice / Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot… And Like Designing / Viva la Political Correctness / A Short Visit to Milan / Trying to do a Dutch accent / Howzit Goan, Eh? / Findings in the Dominican Republic / The Great Divide / Friday Variety / Venezuela: Overshadowed by Politics

Rodrigo Sanchez [Español] Stefan Sagmeister / Stuart Bailey / Adrian Shaughnessy / Martin Venezky / Natalia Ilyin / Andrew Blauvelt / Claude Garamond / David Carson / Nick Shinn / HIllman Curtis / Rick Valicenti / James Victore / Tomato / Aesthetic Apparatus / 2 Rebels Co-Founder Denis Dulude / Art Chantry / Rudy Vanderlans / Steve Heller

6. Brook Lorntson / 5. Paul Kimball / 4. Arturo Elenes / 3. Jason Lee / 2. Kiran Max Weber / 1. Armin Vit

Book Printing, The Hard Way / To Check or not to Check / When Ink Meets Paper / Letterpress / Best Print Shop? / Briar Press

Above the Fray: Bayer’s Notgeld and Designing in Crisis / Compostmodern09 Reviews, 3 of 3 / Compostmodern09 Reviews, 2 of 3 / Compostmodern09 Reviews, 1 of 3 / Twelve Words about San Francisco Graphic Design / Dear Lulu, The New Standards / ADAA: The Top Print Communication Projects / Thoughts on Thoughts on Democracy / Chicago International Poster Biennial Night / AIGA/NY Smart Models: Duffy & Partners / AIGA/NY Smart Models: 37Signals / AIGA/NY Smart Models: Douglas Riccardi / AIGA/NY Smart Models: Athletics / AIGA/NY Smart Models / The Black Book of Colors / Newsworthy is Communityworthy / Sagmeister’s Show Stinks / Designers do Care, After All / “What is a Typeface?” Alex / Nexterday: A Review of AIGA Next / Ffffantastic Bookmarking / Radiohead and the Requiem for Packaging / Thank Pugh / The Creative Revolution / Don’t hate the Gansta, Hate the Game / Madvertising / When Helvetica Freezes Over / Idiocratic Design / Must-See TV: Top Design / Spreading Doubt to the Masses / Baby Designer / The Sun, the Moon, the Stars / Dealing with “WoMen” Part II: The Reckoning / World Series of Restraint Culture / Solos: Matali Crasset / Our Futurist Past / An Inconvenient Piece of Spinach

The Proof isn't in the Pudding, it's in the Proofs / An Homage to Shigeo Fukuda / Christmas Eve, Referenced / Hall of Design: Academics Edition / The Chicago International Poster Biennial on Display / Inside the Graphic Design Archives at RIT / Paying it Forward / Inside the Herb Lubalin Study Center / The Making of Sham, Wow! / Top 10 Design Questions: Student Edition / Small Design Ephemera: The Alternative Portfolio / Speak Up: V1.0 through V4.0 / Small Design Ephemera: The Endeavor / The Powerbook! The Powerbook! The Powerbook’s on Fire! / Design Research? / 8 Minute Abs / ICON 4: I Done Sprained My Elby Bone / ICON 4: Elvis Mitchell Owes Me A Dollar / Ultimate Character / Baby Names My Wife and I Have Rejected / The Other Other Rand / Decorationism / Logo Smackdown III / The Art of Perfection / Projects that make you : ) / Ode to my Sketchbook / Posters, posters and more posters / Hard Knocks / A Rewarding Experience / High for Low / Furry Friends / Tree Up / A New Symbol for… / Chri…I mean, Holiday Cards & Promos / Get it all out / Show your Speak Up Pride / Just Married / Tell us about your Nightmare / Non-Marketing Design / The Designer’s Black Book / Logo Sins / Logo Smackdown Deux / Logo Smackdown / Flash Your Badge / One Color Wonders / What’s on your desk? / Cards & Gifts / Marked, for Life / Trash Collector / Self-Righteous Self-Promotion / The Designer’s Burden / Speak Up: Screw-Ups / Guess / Extra Curricular Activity / What’s on Your Desk? / Updating the Library / Low Points / Big-up Yourself / Story Telling / Show and Tell

Parting Thoughts / Letting Go / Goodbye, Speak Up / A Texas State of Mind / New: Word It / Now on Twitter / Word It for March / Word It for February / Attend Compostmodern 09, our Treat / Word It for January / Word It for December / Women of Design, Now Available / Word It for November / Word It for October / Booksourcing: Bathroom People / Word It for September / Booksourcing: Pins Wanted / Word It for August / Word It for July / Word It for June / Word it for May / New Book Recommendations / Self-Promotion: Opposites Attract ‘08 / Self-Promotion: Dyslexflix / Word It for April / Word It for March / Word It for January / Word It for December / Tennis, Anyone? / Word It for November / UnderConsideration, Untethered / Word It for October / Word It for September / Word It for August / Word It for July / Word it for June / Word It for May / Stop Being Sheep, Year 4 / The Word It Book / Pop Goes the Pop-up Window / Word It for April / Word It for March / UnderConsideration Survey 2007 / Word It for February / The Design Encyclopedia Wants You / New: Quipsologies / Word It for January / Live from the Cooper-Hewitt / High Priority Contest: The Winner / Word It for December / High Priority Contest: The Entries / High Priority Contest: The Last 24 Hours / High Priority Contest / New: Brand New / Word It for November / Word It for October / Word It for September / Word It for August / Word It for July / Word It is looking for YOU / Word It for June / Word It for May / Speak Up v4: Alive and Well / Speak Up Goes to Raleigh / Word It for April / Hello Triennial! / Word It for February / Word It for January / Word It for December / Comment Windows on and off / Word It for November / Word It for October / Stop Being Sheep, Volumes 2 & 3 / The Design Encyclopedia / Speak Up + Design Observer @ AIGA Boston x You = Good Times / An Anniversary / Word It for September / Word It for August / Quipsologies~ Vol. 20 ~ / Word It for July / Word It For June / Sheepie Auction No. 4 / Word It For May / Spamming Speak Up / Word It for April / Word It for March / Word It for February / Word It For January / Speak Up Posters / Speaking of Posters / Word It For December / seriouSeries No. 4 / Whodunit: Poster Edition / The Poster Winners are… / Word It For November / A Celebration of Death, Arrival and — why not? — Design / The Winner is… / The Votes are in / Sheepie Auction No. 3 / Word It For October / Poster Voting is Now Open / Poster Contest Deadline / Yet More Posters / Oh… by the way, we’re two now / Start Spreading the News… / Poster Contest Deadline Extended / First Batch of Posters up for Viewing / Word It For September / Sheepie Auction No. 2 / Speak Up’s Poster Contest / Sheepie Auction No. 1 / Go Armin, it’s your Birthday… / Commemorative Sheepies / Word It For August / 20 Billion Served… Almost / Guest Editorials / Let me in your Inbox / Word It For July / Word It for June / Word It for June / Speak Up Sells its Soul? / seriouSeries No. 3 / Speak Up is now part of the AIGA / Word It for April / Apologies for Service / T-Shirt Blowout Sale / Word It for March / Quick Survey / Refreshed, Revitalized, Ready to Rock / Speak Up Downtime for Uptime / Word It for February / Open Space Update / Word It for January / Open Space Back in Action / Word It for December / Business Articles Moved / seriouSeries No. 2 / Stop Being Sheep / Word It for November / Speak Up Soireé / Speak Up Goes to Vancouver / Get your T-shirt! / Back Online + Milestone! / Word it - Rethought / Order your Speak Up T-shirt / Open Space Continues / T-shirt Winner / T-shirt Top Three / T-shirt Submissions are in / seriouSeries 0.5 (test run) / Introducing seriouSeries / Speak Up Turns One! / Speak Up T-shirt Design Contest / Open Space Update / Speak Up Survives Ordeal / Interruption of Broadcast / Speak Up Reviewed by Rick Poynor / Open Space Finally Starts / Speak Up goes to Harvard / Speak Up Needs Your Money / Technical Difficulties / Speak Up Goes to TypeCon / Open Space Sign-up / The Open Space Project / Herman Eyes Cooper Black / Speak Up Milestone / We are Bookmark-Worthy / New Business Entry / New Word It & Business Article / Stuff Goin’ on

Now I know my A-B-Cs / Typographic Nostalgia: Bell Centennial / Type Quiz, Hot Shot / Agenda: Offer a Membership to Zapf Dingbats? / Highlights from TypeCon 2008 / Comic Sans: One Good Application / The New(er) Typography: Counterless, Bold and mostly Geometric / Dr. Copperplate and Mr. Gothic / My TypoWeek / The Quick Brown Wirefox Jumps over the Lazy Grid / Designers: New York Commuters Need You! / Typowhimsy / The Mother of all Typographic Movies / Bridging the Gap Between Hip Hop, Sports and Youth Culture / Subtítulos en Acción (SUBTITLES IN ACTION) / News in Type / Deconstructive Typography Captches up / Mis-casting / Type Casting / Saab or Dodgeball? / Leapfrogging the Classics / Typetiquette / Goudy Text States Its Case / Good Typography / My Name is Font. Ultra Pixel Font. / Handbill Typography / Does Mrs. Eaves Need a Rest? / Speak Up: Typographic Quiz / Do people get typefaces? / TypeCon Reviewed / And in this corner…weighing in at a medium bold… / Name that Typeface / Open Source Type / TypeCon2003 Revs Up / Clean Underware / New Emigre Typeface / Fonts Anon~: Catering to the True Amateur / For the Font Addicts / Big Screen Type / Just Say No… to Comic Sans? / Martha Knows Type / Sign up for Typeface Tag / Typeface Classification / Independent Font Directory / Public Lettering Anyone? / Typophile: The Smaller Picture / Basking in the Red Sun / Typographica / A True Story

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