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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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The Herb Lubalin Study Center has released the first issue of Flat File, a weekly publication featuring one piece of graphic design at a time from the center’s archives. The first issue focuses on Herb Lubalin’s design for Fact magazine. Beautifully presented.
02.19.2016
Zander Brade’s The Passable Designer is our industry’s The Onion, providing “Breathtakingly honest coverage of the world’s least self-absorbed industry”. A few choice headlines pictured.
02.19.2016
Sculptor David Adickes created 43 presidential busts to honor every U.S. President, and not just the few that can be seen at Mount Rushmore. Photographer David Ogden visited their current resting place, a farm not open to the public and shared with all to see.
I would definitely make this a stop on my visit to the South if it were available to the public!
02.18.2016
Can’t help but feel smitten with Hopeless Diamond, a prismatic typeface by Jonathan Barnbrook.
02.18.2016
Damien Hirst will open a new restaurant, Pharmacy 2, that looks, um, clinical. (Obviously takes after his pharma series which are great as art pieces but as restaurant decor?).
02.18.2016
Adele Renault, Rogier Bot, and Niels Shoe Meulman, hunt for upside down “N”s.
02.18.2016
VeryGraphic: Polish Designers of the 20th Century not only looks like a great read but the cover is bad-ass too, with each one painted by hand by Kuba Sowiński, the book’s designer, with the colorful “X”s. You can buy the book in the U.S. here.
02.18.2016
Seriously considering moving if Trump wins the presidency? Cape Breton in Canada has your personal invitation, right here.
02.17.2016
Circle the wagons: the Metropolitan Museum of Art is apparently rebranding.
02.17.2016
Apple has made a public statement in regards to the FBI’s request for backdoor access to the iPhone.
02.17.2016