Art of the Menu (2011 – 2019)
A fairly enjoyable niche blog that provided a foray into restaurant menus from around the world.
…/artofthemenu
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A graphic design firm generating its own projects, initiatives, and content while taking on limited client work. Run by Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit in Bloomington, IN.
Headlines and wordmark
Druk Condensed XX Super by Berton Hasebe for Commercial Type.
Body
Neue Haas Unica by Toshi Omagari for Monotype. Served via fonts.com.
UCLLC logo
Custom lettering by Mark Caneso.
A fairly enjoyable niche blog that provided a foray into restaurant menus from around the world.
…/artofthemenu
One of our longest-running blogs that curated curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry.
…/quipsologies
One of our original blogs that published compelling printed projects.
…/fpo
A one-time effort to bring the Brand New Conference to Europe. The Brand Nieuwe Conference took place in Amsterdam on June 20 – 21,
2016.
bit.ly/bnconfams
A speaker series in Austin, TX, featuring some of the graphic design industry’s most awesome people.
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A quarterly print publication that served as a summary of the most interesting, relevant, and simply fun-to-see projects published each quarter across our blogs. It had a small print-run of 500 and was sold as a subscription or individual issues.
…/quarterly
A judged competition celebrating the best print work from around the world each year. Free online galleries and high-res PDFs for the winners accessible through the link below and a few books still available for purchase.
…/fpoawards
A judged competition celebrating the best identity work produced around the world each year. Free online galleries and high-res PDFs for the winners accessible through the link below and a few books still available for purchase.
…/brandnewawards
A direct descendant of Brand New, it provided a space where identity work by students could be showcased and critiqued. Brand New Classroom posted solely hypothetical redesigns of real-life brands.
…/brandnewclassroom
For 7 years, each month, we would announce a word and people contributed their visual interpretation of it. All submissions were posted.
…/wordit
The design blog that started it all. (For us, at least). Discussing, and looking for, what is relevant in, and the relevance of, graphic design.
…/speakup
A series of events hosted by the Art Directors Club in New York where we invited and interviewed two designers we considered to be on opposite ends of various spectrums.
…/oppositesattract08
A short-lived “humor” blog serving as a public service for those annoyed by wrong movie recommendations on Netflix’s early days, offering a space to release said annoyances by recommending wrong.
…/dyslexflix
Launched with great promise, TDE failed to get the proper traction as a user-built source of reference material with the intention of defining, describing, chronicling and documenting the world through design. (Alternate description: a graphic design wiki).
No link available.
Only four of these small and intimate gatherings took place but they were electric! The first one was at our apartment in Chicago and even Michael Bierut attended to see Rick Valicenti.
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