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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Update on Quip 81: H&M were apparently trolled “to bring the ugly side of metal to their campaign, to show that we as metalheads are more aware of the content you are selling people that you are as sellers.”
03.26.2015
Fellow quipsologist Ricardo Cordoba
An interview with Bob Wages, designer of the Atlanta Hawks’ classic “Pac-Man” logo.
03.25.2015
Russell Walks redoes Star Wars in a bunch of different styles, from romance novels to Saul Bass movie posters.
03.25.2015
Fun project by Lucas Heinrich: He clicks on Wikipedia’s Random article link and then designs a book cover based on whatever crazy article he gets, like Banana Equivalent Dose.
03.25.2015
About a year late on this one but just saw it: A kit by Coca-Cola in Vietnam to give used plastic bottles a second life in all kinds of charming ways.
03.25.2015
Michael Bierut interview at Design Indaba, part 2 of 2: “The primitive power of logos.”
03.24.2015
Michael Bierut interview at Design Indaba, part 1 of 2: “How to write a book about your work.”
03.24.2015
Incredible fore-edge paintings on books going back a couple hundred years.
03.24.2015
Did Swedish clothing giant H&M invent underground bands to sell new line of metal merchandise? More on this developing (and bizarre) story at the link.
03.24.2015
