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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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Possibly the most civilized cease and desist exchange ever - Jack Daniels sends a polite letter to a publisher regarding their book cover, the author respectfully makes the changes without accepting the money offered for doing so.
07.22.2012
While it would also make for a great book cover, this is a faux book that serves as packaging for C.T. Lockhart Tennessee Whiskey, designed by Trevor Rogers.
07.20.2012
Oh how I wish there were more images of this: The Golden Alphabet; or Parents’ Guide and Child’s Instructor, a three-quarter-inch-square, 126-page book that follows a rhyme on how to raise kids. Could be yours for $1,250.
07.20.2012
Cardbordia is a kind of funky artistic movement that takes the form of both workshops and large-scale installations where cardboard towns are erected, cardboard costumes are created, and where cardboard weddings take place. Link goes to their Flickr page and here is a link to a PDF that explains it all.
07.20.2012
A visual and aural evolution of PC games. Amazing how many of the early games I played.
07.19.2012
An awesome visualization of what it takes to land the next rover, Curiosity, on the surface of Mars.
07.19.2012
Outfit recommendations so that you can dress like your favorite social media site.
07.19.2012
For this MFA Thesis Exhibition, Matthew Olin assigned a superhero to each type classification based on both of their characteristics.
07.19.2012
Meet Nate St. Pierre, Senior Vice President of Design at Vooza, the mobile web app you never knew you wanted. (If you’ve read this far you deserve to know that Vooza is a spoof of the whole start-up, crazy web-app world and its surrounding hoopla; check the link for the first two videos, which are pretty funny).
07.18.2012
