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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.

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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.

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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.

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by james i bowie

Design Week on the new Everton crest, the latest logo to be brought down by the online mob.

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05.29.2013

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by armin

The Gold & Silver compendium by publisher Victionary of metallic use in graphic design is, um, shiny.

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05.29.2013

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NOTCOT

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by armin

Relive eight years of viral videos to the tune of “We didn’t start the fire”. Amazing how old some of these feel.

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05.29.2013

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Incredible Things

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by armin

Animated GIFs for your bicycle. Monkey Light Pro on Kickstarter.

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05.29.2013

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Incredible Things

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by armin

Kind of corny but it still gave me goosebumps and it’s clever: Coca-Cola installs two “Small World Machines”, one in India and one in Pakistan that require two parties from each side to join hands and draw on a line together to dispense a can of soda.

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05.29.2013

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Chris Rooney

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by armin

Best play on the “Keep Calm and Carry On” trend: band-aids.

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05.28.2013

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Design You Trust

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by armin

The largest model ever built with Legos is a 23-ton, 5.3-million-brick X-Wing fighter from Star Wars, built by 32 Lego “Master Builders”.

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05.28.2013

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brandflakesforbreakfast

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by armin

“Optical Ripple”, a groovy new print from artist and designer Simon C. Page. Blurry, on purpose. Or is it?

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05.28.2013

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Jack

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by armin

A cookbook that you have to slice to see the recipes, by OgilvyAction Latina for Carulla Cooking School. Video at the link.

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05.28.2013

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by doug bartow

Shirley, you jest: The City of Detroit is considering whether the multibillion-dollar collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts should be considered city assets that potentially could be sold to cover about $15 billion in debt.

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05.24.2013

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