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about

• 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

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• All comments, ideas and thoughts on Quipsologies are property of their authors; reproduction without the author’s or Quipsologies’s permission is strictly prohibited

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• Search through our archives (starting with Vol. 45 September 2010)

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UnderConsideration is a graphic design enterprise that runs a network of blogs, publishes books, organizes live events, and designs for clients.

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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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by armin

The best 60 business cards of 2010 according to Francesco Mugnai.

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12.08.2010

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Nice Fucking Graphics

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by armin

Nice identity and print materials by Bunch for Hortiart, a Croatian landscaping company.

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12.08.2010

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by armin

Douglas Allen Smith Jr. has legally changed his name to Captain Awesome and has a new awesome signature to go with it.

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12.08.2010

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BuzzFeed

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by armin

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.

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12.08.2010

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by ricardo cordoba

Jessica Hische demonstrates the line weight variation tool in Adobe Illustrator CS5.

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12.08.2010

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Communication Arts

omg. i love illustrator cs5 from Jessica Hische on Vimeo.
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by doug bartow

What? No Sagmeister/Lou Reed? 50 Years of Typography in Album Covers.

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12.07.2010

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Sal Randazzo

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by doug bartow

Rudolph (You Don’t Have To Put On The Red Light)

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12.07.2010

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@perMicah

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by armin

The “Life Calendar” comes with 365 blank emoticons so that you can draw how each day was.

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12.07.2010

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by diane zerr

In a pinch for holiday cards? Use an eraser and stamp your way into holiday card bliss.

A wonderful idea from Snap + Tumble.

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12.07.2010

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by quipsologies

“Numbers: The beauty and the meaning of it.” Beautiful typographic work entirely with numbers by Randy Raharja.

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12.07.2010

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Maia Then

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