Chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis.
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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.
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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An absolutely STUNNING collection of covers for insurance maps, by the Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Company.
Don’t miss this!
02.15.2011
Beautiful people and amazing typography in a series of videos for EF languages schools by Niklas Johansson, Albin Holmqvist, and Gustav Johansson, illustrating the experience of learning a new language in a strange city - Paris, Barcelona, London, Beijing.
02.15.2011
Portugal’s i daily named the best designed newspaper in the World. Must agree.
02.15.2011
Pauer and Octavi, two students from Barcelona on erasmus in Slovenia have taken over the buttons at pedestrian crossings with stickers that turn the everyday button into something a little more fulfilling.
02.14.2011
Locked in a Vegas Hotel Room with a Phantom Flex: 2,564 FPS @1080p
02.14.2011
Arcano, a 26-glyph font by Giuseppe Salerno, originally hand-lettered. Amazing. Probably not fit for financial typesetting.
02.14.2011
Maria Fischer’s student project Traumgedanken (Thoughts on dreams) physically conveys the abstract paths of dreams by using threads pierced through the pages to make physical hyperlinks between ideas.
02.14.2011
Steven Masuch brings you selections from the Japanese Figure Trademark Database picked based “on quality, novelty, and humour.”
02.14.2011
“The Return of the Lost Sock” by Bruno Zalum and Camille McMorrow, a little silkscreen goodie pack with a single sock and eleven tips for what to do with it.
02.14.2011
