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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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One of the locations of Sainsbury’s — the second largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom — took out an ad looking for an artist to liven up their canteen for free. An artist replied with a potential ad looking for a supermarket to stock his/her kitchen for free.
05.18.2016
“DARTH BY DARTHWEST” by Fabrice Mathieu, blends Star Wars with North by Northwest.
05.18.2016
From the Department of I Want To Go To There: Typographics, a “design festival for people who use type”. New York, June 17 - 18.
05.18.2016
Designer Ayse Birsel has started a petition to initiate a National Sketch Day.
05.17.2016
Bad Luck, Hot Rocks features letters written about stealing pieces of petrified wood from Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park and the bad luck experienced afterwards. Maybe they should be called Karma Rocks?
05.17.2016
Amazingly vintage photos by Michael Galinsky of 1980s life in shopping malls across America. OMG, “Golden Axe”! I totally plaid that, in the 1980s, in a mall.
05.17.2016
One poster a day by Vasjen Katro for 365 days. Some good eye candy in there, although I would call the project “One JPG a Day” because those are as much posters as this blog is a printed newspaper.
05.17.2016
In the future, kids might ask for a private jet instead of a traditional car. Lilium Aviation is working on a 100% electric short-haul private jet.
05.16.2016
For the rich crossfit-er in your life: a $700 kettlebell sculpture made of marble.
05.16.2016
