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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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For his BFA thesis project Colin Pinegar charted his friends on Facebook based on how close he was to each of them, assigning the darkest purple to his closest friends and lightening from there to pink. He then created a wax portait of himself to create a 3D chart with 451 figurines.
02.09.2012
This is begging for a proper shoot with close-ups and blurriness: 4,979 came together for the world’s largest game of dodgeball at the University of Alberta. It looks like a fight scene from Star Wars involving lasers shooting.
02.09.2012
An impressive range of digital posters by Jonathan Schubert based on the political struggle and human oppression in various conflicts throughout the world.
02.09.2012
A selection of historical political buttons from the Busy Beaver Button Museum collection.
02.09.2012
Word Bumps, a Tumblr featuring “Bits of inspirational writing. Think of this as an online gallery of writing that both inspires and moves you. A collection of favorable words from writers of all different types.” A good collection so far.
02.09.2012
Great series of illustrations by Daniel Mackie showing the habitat within the animal.
02.09.2012
A flowchart/infographic of the average career of a graphic designer. Some funny stuff in there, other seems like stereotypes from the 1980s.
Update: One of our readers noted that it should be specified that this is the average career of a MALE graphic designer.
02.08.2012
Infographic about tattoos by Paul Marcinkowski as a school project — in other words, no humans were tattooed in the making of this infographic.
02.08.2012
