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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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The Magic Yarn Project has garnered some attention to it’s cause. They create Disney or princess-like wigs for pediatric cancer patients and put smiles on the faces of those children. While the GoFundMe page is close to it’s goal of $20k, they are also receiving an overwhelming amount of offers from volunteers to help make the handmade wigs. The internet can be really good sometimes.
11.12.2015
Archie Archambault creates maps “from the Mind” by talking to locals about how their city is shaped, resulting in broad-view maps, eschewing the detail of GPS.
11.12.2015
Treat yo self to this new Tumblr featuring the books designed by the in-house team at Princeton University Press.
11.12.2015
File this under, “I don’t know why” but Shia Labeouf is watching all of his movies in reverse chronological order for just 72 hours (it began around noon yesterday) and is live streaming his face the entire time. You too, can watch with him since admission is free. Location is in NY, more info at the link.
11.11.2015
A nice archive of some vintage workwear buttons found on eBay (no longer for sale, I’m afraid).
11.11.2015
These towering sculptures by Tara Donovan are made by stacking and gluing hundreds of thousands of index cards.
11.11.2015
The Protopiper spits out tubes to “sketch” objects at actual size in situ.
11.11.2015
Mustache-owners: here is the contraption you always knew you wanted or that will make you shave off that thing. The Stache Shield from Odd Company. Currently on Kickstarter.
11.11.2015
