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by plamen
“This is not my logo” or the Madrid 2020 Summer Olympics bid affair.
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Chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis.
• Plamen
• Doug Bartow
• Josh Berta
• Niki Blaker
• James I Bowie
• Ricardo Cordoba
• Diane Zerr
• 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.
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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
• Search through our archives (starting with Vol. 45 September 2010)
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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In case you missed it yesterday on Brand New — which was first to post this when the video only had 13 views (now at 110,000+ and counting — this is identity designer Adam Ladd’s 5-year-old daughter on her impressions of popular logos. I dare you to not smile or laugh.
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Twenty events from 2011 mashed up together in one illustration by Ars Thanea. Check the link for detail shots. Can you figure out all of them?
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A couple of nice and very helpful “Kitchen 101” posters by Russell van Kraayenburg.
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Amazing hand-drawn, five-color litho movie posters by Indian artist Ramachandraiah, drawing “a poster every three hours. In a week, he creates campaigns for dozens of movies.”
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Typographic Revolt magazine, a newspaper/poster set to flaunt the Hype for Type exclusive font library. Yum.
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In honor of President’s Day Two Paperdolls, a letterpress and design studio, is partnering with Art in the Age on a letterpress exhibition in their Philadelphia store. Titled “The American Alliance of Unpaid Public Servants” they have chosen quotes from the First Ladies.
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The Boneyard is a United States Air Force storage and maintenance facility for in Tucson, Arizona. The Boneyard Project has turned these retired aircrafts into canvases for works of art.
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Check out Bondi, a clever flexible holder/hanger for phones and just about anything.
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