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The best 60 business cards of 2010 according to Francesco Mugnai.
12.08.2010
Chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis.
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• 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.
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• 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
Nice identity and print materials by Bunch for Hortiart, a Croatian landscaping company.
12.08.2010
Douglas Allen Smith Jr. has legally changed his name to Captain Awesome and has a new awesome signature to go with it.
12.08.2010
Italian design firm Normat, in collaboration with Aoi Huber Kono, widow of famed Swiss designer Max Huber, have reissued his Coccodrillo calendar for 2011 (right, top). From 1952 until 1975 Max created a calendar as a self-promotion — some samples right, bottom — nicknamed “crocodile” after its wide and short shape.
12.08.2010
Jessica Hische demonstrates the line weight variation tool in Adobe Illustrator CS5.
12.08.2010
What? No Sagmeister/Lou Reed? 50 Years of Typography in Album Covers.
12.07.2010
The “Life Calendar” comes with 365 blank emoticons so that you can draw how each day was.
12.07.2010
In a pinch for holiday cards? Use an eraser and stamp your way into holiday card bliss.
A wonderful idea from Snap + Tumble.
12.07.2010
“Numbers: The beauty and the meaning of it.” Beautiful typographic work entirely with numbers by Randy Raharja.
12.07.2010