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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Adobe’s Eames armchair remix project challenges you to mess with the classic and has worked with AJ Joseph, Marian Bantjes, Chuck Anderson, Erik Natzke, Patrick Tighe, and Goodby Silverstein’s Beta group to get things started with six hacks.
06.18.2013
The LSD ABC by Laura Sicouri and Kadavre Exquis. Strange in all the right ways.
06.17.2013
Four sisters, one photographer, 33 photos (one each year from 1975 to 2010).
06.17.2013
A Facebook page that gathers all the ideas for “What new Mac Pro should be”.
06.17.2013
MOCA TV’s The Art of Punk looks at the visual iconography behind Black Flag, including the band’s classic logo.
06.15.2013
File under fun: a mobile Photoshop artist has some real-time retouching fun with bus stop patrons.
06.14.2013
Monotype has posted a show reel of the setup and weeklong events of its recent Pencil to Pixel NYC exhibition. View related Quips here and here.
06.14.2013
I love old maps, but Shannon Rankin presents them in a fresh way through collages.
06.14.2013
