UnderConsideration is a graphic design enterprise that runs a network of blogs, publishes books, organizes live events and judged competitions, and designs for clients.
Online
Publishing
Events & Judged Competitions
Writing
Graphic Design
Online
- FPO (For Print Only) / Celebrating the reality that print is not dead by showcasing the most compelling printed projects.
- Art of the Menu / Cataloguing the underrated creativity of menus from around the world.
- Quipsologies / Chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis.
- 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.
- Brand New Classroom (2010 – 2011) / Providing a space for critique and opinions on student identity work. Archives Only.
Publishing
- The 2010 Brand New Awards / 2011, self-published.
- Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work / 2010, self-published.
Events & Judged Competitions
- 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.
- Brand New Awards / Celebrating the best identity work produced around the world.
- FPO Awards / Celebrating the best print work from around the world.
Writing
- 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.
Graphic Design
- Department of Design / Designing corporate and brand identities and full development of printed and digital matter for clients.
BY Armin
In Brief: The Store of Tomorrow, Today
If you are in New York this coming Thursday see about finagling an invitation to Wolff Olins’ Store of Tomorrow opening. The show “highlights ten platform brands that invite people to take part, to give as well as get.”
DATE: Mar.24.2008
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In Brief: Nebraska Logo Voting
On May 13 you can vote for Scott Kleeb in the Democratic Senate Primary but you can do your Nebraskan duty now by voting for one of his campaign logos. That first logo sure looks a lot like RubyTuesday. [Thanks to Jonah Goodman for the link]
DATE: Mar.20.2008POSTED BY: ArminCATEGORY: In Brief COMMENTS:
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In Brief: Logos from the Good Ol’ Days
They sure don’t make logos like they used to: A Flickr set of “vintage logos from a mid-70’s edition of the book World of Logotypes.”
DATE: Mar.20.2008POSTED BY: ArminCATEGORY: In Brief COMMENTS:
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In Brief: Introducing In Brief
Just a quick note to let you all know of the introduction of a new, non-groundbreaking feature of Brand New: In Brief. This is just a way of allowing us to bring you other identity- and brand-related bits of online goodness that don’t fit in the Before/After format. In Brief will be one- or two-sentence posts linking to something interesting, related to the content of the site. For those of you visiting us on a browser you will quickly spot these items by the change in font and color; for those of you following the site in RSS, the title of the post will always be preceded by “In Brief: [insert].” That’s it. Hopefully this adds something useful to the site and it will sure help in keeping the place hoppin’ while we prepare our reviews.
DATE: Mar.20.2008POSTED BY: ArminCATEGORY: In Brief COMMENTS:
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Books about logo design, the designers that create them and the meaning of branding.
