Hope you’ve had a great summer, as many of us continue back into the school season, here are some great inspirations and idea starters for August . . . * Stefan Sagmeister’s The Happy Show Is at the Chicago Cultural Center * ‘Revel on the Block’ promotes creativity, community and local business * Students Recognized by ‘Design for Good’ Project * Winners of SEGD Global Design Awards 2013 * Trust me, you’re not a graphic designer * Contemporary Arts Museum gets graphic … and more !
Hope you’ve had a great summer, as many of us continue back into the school season, here are some great inspirations and idea starters for August . . . * Stefan Sagmeister’s The Happy Show Is at the Chicago Cultural Center * ‘Revel on the Block’ promotes creativity, community and local business * Students Recognized by ‘Design for Good’ Project * Winners of SEGD Global Design Awards 2013 * Trust me, you’re not a graphic designer * Contemporary Arts Museum gets graphic
… and more !
Students Recognized by ‘Design for Good’ Project
A public awareness campaign designed and implemented by graphic design students at Illinois Wesleyan University has been recognized by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Design for Good project. The largest professional design organization in the country, AIGA published a case study of the campaign — “What We Eat and Why It Matters” —this week. Design for Good is an innovative movement within the design profession, supported and encouraged by AIGA. Full story : Illinois Wesleyan University See for screen capture or video
Contemporary Arts Museum gets graphic
Everybody’s a graphic designer these days, with Adobe tools and other programs at their disposal. So what defines a great commercial artist now? “Graphic Design – Now in Production” answers with a look at posters, magazines, books, branding imagery, type, products, information graphics and film and TV titles created by some of the nation’s best professional creatives since 2000. Co-organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, the show opens at 7 p.m. Friday (through Sept. 29) at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 5216 Montrose, 713-284-8250, camh.org. Free admission. Full story : Molly Glentzer Arts, Design & Culture Writer / www.chron.com See for screen capture or video
Winners of SEGD Global Design Awards 2013
The Society for Environmental Graphic Design has recently revealed the winners of its 2013 Global Design Awards. The Awards honors the best in environmental graphic design. This year, the winners range from signage for a Boy Scout camp in West Virginia to a suite of high-tech interactives at the Cleveland Museum of Art. They also include a university cafeteria in Turkey, an exhibition on Charles Dickens in New York, integrated wayfinding and placemaking for a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office in Seattle, a research project on signage and mental mapping, and environmental graphics for a wide range of other corporate, civic, and cultural environments. Full story : Society for Environmental Graphic Design See for screen capture or video
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‘Revel on the Block’ promotes creativity, community and local business
The community will unite to get in touch with its creative side and celebrate the power of great urban design July 27 at the second “Revel on the Block” celebration. Local agencies Cadence, C&I Studios and helium creative, in partnership with the FAT Village Arts District, will host the event in coordination with the monthly FAT Village Art Walk at Northwest First Avenue between Fifth and Sixth streets in Fort Lauderdale. Full story : www.sun-sentinel.com See for screen capture or video
Trust me, you’re not a graphic designer
What we are saying is that many people overlook the importance of hiring a professional graphic designer because they have the opinion that graphic design seems relatively simple, especially with so many “off-the-shelf” design templates available. In reality, professional graphic designers are highly trained and educated artists who generally have a fine arts degree or other exceptional art background or skill, and they combine their gift of being an artist with an understanding of how to use the power of extremely advanced software to create visual brilliance. Full story : Mary Ann Henker — Daily Record See for screen capture or video
Stefan Sagmeister’s The Happy Show Is at the Chicago Cultural Center
Graphic design superstar Stefan Sagmeister was in Chicago last week setting up his exhibit The Happy Show at the Chicago Cultural Center, and he brought his monkeys with him. Two giant white inflatable primates popped up in Millennium Park on Friday afternoon and antagonized passersby, as monkeys tend to do, with signs that read, “EVERYBODY THINKS THEY ARE RIGHT.” Two more monkeys fill the fourth-floor gallery of the Cultural Center, heralding Sagmeister’s exhibition on the topic of happiness, that ever elusive emotion. Full story : Jason Foumberg – Chicago-Magazine See for screen capture or video
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