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Get your Design Facts through a nice, simple, sharp user interface with this site conceived by Shane Bzdok (and developed by James Walton).
03.23.2016
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Chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis.
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• Doug Bartow
• Josh Berta
• Niki Blaker
• James I Bowie
• Ricardo Cordoba
• Diane Zerr
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about
• 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.
• Quipsologies is run with Six Apart’s MovableType 6.8.8
• 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)
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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.
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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.
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Department of Design / Designing corporate and brand identities and full development of printed and digital matter for clients.
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UK artist makes Pikachu mosaic out of Pokémon cards for their 20th anniversary.
03.22.2016
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Illustrator Ariel Hart has put together a tarot card set in the style of Lisa Frank.
03.22.2016
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Here is a market I didn’t realize was underserved: overly cute USB-heated plush slippers. LA-based Smoko has a full range of these, making them the “best USB warmer company”.
03.22.2016
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Great title sequence by Sixfingers for “Race for the White House”, a six-part CNN documentary series on key presidential campaigns in U.S. history.
03.21.2016
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With advertising like this it’s hard to grasp why such an awesome product — jeans with jingle bells — didn’t become a timeless, worldwide trend beyond 1970s Germany. More at the link.
03.21.2016
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Mexican folk art meets contemporary 3D in the bubbly, colorful work of Grand Chamaco. (Plus other cool stuff.)
03.21.2016
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Steve St. Pierre is designing a book jacket everyday based on submissions to the question, “What is the title of your life story (up to this point)?” Shown: “A Series of Increasingly Poor Decisions” by Philip Horwitz.
03.21.2016
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Alaska’s retro Grizzly Bear license plate has won the “Best Plate of 2015” award from the Automobile License Plate Collectors Association.
03.20.2016
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