Chip Kidd Interviews Neil Gaiman!

Be still my beating geeky heart! Look what I found! One of my favorite graphic designers interviewing one of my favorite authors! Don't call me for about an hour and a half, I'll be busy!

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Communications and Graphics Daily

Don't forget to check out my daily paper.… Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Design Daily. -via  Paper.li

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Case Study: The Revenger’s Tragedy Initial Design

This is another case study posts featuring some of my recent work. The purpose of these posts is to share my design philosophy and methodology. I have been working on the marketing collateral for the upcoming GreenStage production...

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A Primer in Mid Century Modern

 Mid-Century modern is an architectural, interior and product design form that generally describes post-war developments in modern design from roughly 1945 to 1965. -from the video Eames Era (Mid Century Modern Design Today) The post war, Mid Century Modern era...

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Steve Jobs on Paul Rand

I found this great interview on YouTube with Steve Jobs discussing designer Paul Rand (1914-1996). The interview focuses primarily on the Next Logo that Rand designed for Jobs' company in 1986. However for the designer there is a lot...

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Steve Heller on the Eclectic Age of Design

I stumbled on this great interview with design guru Steve Heller and had to share. In this eclectic interview, he covers many topics ranging from typography to tea packaging. It is very engaging and well worth checking out for...

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Great Design! EF: Live the Language

If you like good clean design and fantastic video work, check out the great campaign "Live the Language" for the company EF Inter­na­tional Lan­guage Cen­ters, which is, according to their website, ...is the world’s largest privately held education company that...

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9/11, Icons and Printed Ephemera

On the 10th Anniversary of September 11th, it is a good time to reflect on the tragedy. There are those far more eloquent than I am who can discuss the political and sociological ramifications, so I'll pick up a...

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Great Read: Graphic Design Cookbook

To be fair Graphic Design Cookbook: Mix & Match Recipes for  Faster, Better Layouts by Leonard Koren and R. Wippo Meckler is more of a resource than a read actually, but what a resource it is! As the title...

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Digital Ephemera for July 20, 2011

Another Wednes­day has rolled around, so here’s my weekly col­lec­tion of inter­est­ing dig­i­tal ephemera I’ve found pok­ing around the vast Inter­net waste­land. Think of me as your guide through the eclectic dig­i­tal desert… Art and Design A swinging interview with...

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Digital Ephemera for July 13, 2011

  Another Wednes­day has rolled around, so here’s my weekly col­lec­tion of inter­est­ing dig­i­tal ephemera I’ve found pok­ing around the vast Inter­net waste­land. Think of me as your guide through the eclectic dig­i­tal desert… Art and Design Entire Text of Novels Used in Outdoor...

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The role of intuition in design with David Carson

Anyone interested in the process of design should watch this great lecture from design legend David Carson from the TED conference in 2003. His lecture is entitled "Design, Discover and Humor." In it Carson brings us this great quote...

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