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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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This is a beautiful and thorough project headed by Gabriella Garcia: It’s a typographic tour of Broadway, the street that runs the length of Manhattan, where she and her team have chosen 26 great examples of lettering found along its 13 miles.
11.19.2015
Pepperoni pizza wrapping paper by Sarah Fay and Justin Colt. Currently on Kickstarter.
11.19.2015
Nifty—50, a poster project organized by Socio Design in London where they invited 50 creatives to interpret the word “Money”. Each poster is printed as a one-off and will be sold through a process of sealed bids with proceeds going to the Countess Mountbatten Hospice Charity.
11.19.2015
Lauren Beltramo’s typographic account of her city, Charleston, SC: My Type of Charleston.
11.18.2015
Stunning: Pigment, an art supply store in Tokyo opened by company Warehouse TERRADA, features a wall made of 4,200 pigments. Plus, everything they sell you want to buy. Guaranteed.
11.18.2015
Gimme Flair has a great collection of pins and patches that cover everything from pop culture to obscure memes and run the gamut from cutesy to vulgar.
11.18.2015
Little Black Font Book 2 from HypeForType showcases the foundry’s cool fonts through a great collection of type specimens.
11.18.2015
In other Star Wars mash-up news: Cars illustrated as characters. Shown: Boba Fett’s Mercedes G-Class and Darth Maul’s Honda NSX.
11.17.2015
Matthew Olin uses the grid in the holes of saltine crackers to create a hand-stitched alphabet.
11.17.2015
