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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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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Roommates, classmates, and coworkers, Joe Anstett and Randall Bruder, collected their shared data over the course of a week then used their home — 7409 2nd Ave, Apartment B2 in Detroit, Michigan — as the main visual tool to showcase their data. The resulting book is currently on Kickstarter.
02.18.2015
LX Type, an alphabet created from Lisbon’s electric wires that power its trams.
02.18.2015
Emoji alphabet by Christopher Rouleau, who writes “Using emoji as pixels in Notes, I made a complete alphabet of reflexive letters, with emojis that start with the letter they are creating.”
02.18.2015
Metamorphabet by Patrick Smith, an iOS app that animates the alphabet in unexpected ways.
02.18.2015
The winners of the DWR Champagne Chair Contest have been announced. Shown: First place winner, Crescent Chair by Bruce Hirschman.
02.17.2015
A very large collection of Russian photography and design from the 1920s to 50s. Turn on Google Translate and go at it.
02.17.2015
“Pizza is the new Black”, a collection of monochromatic pizza pies you wouldn’t necessarily eat.
02.17.2015
Let’s Go Letter Hunting by Friends of Type, published by Princeton Architectural Press, is a handy sketchbook specifically designed for typographic expeditions.
02.17.2015
All NASA ISS expeditions are accompanied by official posters. And some of them are quite strange.
02.15.2015
Class is in session with Tobias Frere-Jones who goes more in-depth than you ever thought possible on the nuances of the “overshoot”, among other topics related to the logic and optics of type design.
02.13.2015
