- Pentagram’s New School Rebrand: Best Thing Ever Or Unbearable Monstrosity?
- Perfect archives for collage artists, designers and collectors
- “Happy Town” by Katsumi Tamura wins Golden A’ Design Award
- New Photography Acquisitions at Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
- TypeTalk: How Good Typography Can Help Your Job Search
- UVU arts grads present final projects showcase
- Vordik Designer Spotlight: Damian Watracz
- Exhibit shows art of design legend
- Putting a typeface to the name
- … and more !
The spring represents some special interests for graphic designers — end of school, beginning of the summer buy and travel wave. Here are some starters to get your creative juices flowing :
- Pentagram’s New School Rebrand: Best Thing Ever Or Unbearable Monstrosity?
- Perfect archives for collage artists, designers and collectors
- “Happy Town” by Katsumi Tamura wins Golden A’ Design Award
- New Photography Acquisitions at Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
- TypeTalk: How Good Typography Can Help Your Job Search
- UVU arts grads present final projects showcase
- Vordik Designer Spotlight: Damian Watracz
- Exhibit shows art of design legend
- Putting a typeface to the name
- … and more !
Putting a typeface to the name
In the late 90s, Yale’s visual identity had a case of multiple personality disorder. Yale’s branding—seen on everything from its admissions brochures to its signs to its official stationery—was extremely disjointed.
There was, and still is, only one person in charge of crafting and maintaining Yale’s brand: the University Printer. At the time, this person was Greer Allen, a designer who firmly believed that each department deserved a brand unto its own—unique colors, typefaces, icons, and all. Allen thought the variety of visual marks reflected the intellectual diversity of the university.
Full story : Aaron Lewis – yaledailynews.com Here is the full Yale Identity Program
UVU arts grads present final projects showcase
Virtually all media types fill two joint exhibitions at Woodbury Art Museum’s largest opening of the year with the annual “Bachelor of Fine Arts Final Project” and “Student Art Show” exhibits.
More than 380 student artists submitted works for the show, but approximately 140 pieces made it in the juried showcase. First place for the “Student Art Show” awarded $300 cash to the winning artist, Annalee Morris with “Cosmic Terra” in acrylic. Full story : www.heraldextra.com Here is a Another sample…
TypeTalk: How Good Typography Can Help Your Job Search
Karl Heine, principal and solutionist of creativeplacement with offices in CT and NY, knows what it takes for creatives to nab that perfect job.
One important element that most employers are looking at is a candidate’s typography skills. Full story : Ilene Strizver, creativepro.com
Exhibit shows art of design legend
The Museum of the City of New York is currently showcasing Paul Rand’s works under the title “Everything is Design: The Work of Paul Rand,” a name that not only describes his art, but also the artist’s life philosophy.
An art director, illustrator and graphic designer, Rand was a legendary designer between the 1930s to 1990s, when he reinvented branding by innovating the brand designs and logos of famous corporate brands such as UPS and IBM. Full story : Rebecca Jane Brown, Contributing Writer, Washington Square News Enlarge the Photo
NEXT : Happy Town, New Logo for Parsons, Damian Watracz and Georgia O’Keeffe
“Happy Town” by Katsumi Tamura wins Golden A’ Design Award
A’ Design Award and Competition is pleased to inform that the design project NTT EAST 2014 Calendar “Happy Town” by Katsumi Tamura has been announced as a winner of the Golden A’ Design Award in Graphics and Visual Communication Design Competition Category.
Katsumi Tamura, the designer of the awarded Graphic project NTT EAST 2014 Calendar “Happy Town” demonstrated “We build towns with you is the message that NTT East Japan conveys in this desk calendar. The upper part of the calendar sheets is a cut out of colorful buildings and the overlapping sheets form one happy town. Full story : www.prweb.com Here is a Another sample…
Pentagram’s New School Rebrand: Best Thing Ever Or Unbearable Monstrosity?
It’s appropriate that Pentagram’s new algorithmic typeface for the New School looks like a wonky take on the Star Wars font, because to paraphrase the words of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Internet has reacted to it with a great disturbance, like millions of voices suddenly crying out in terror, then refusing to shut up about it.
The identity, designed by Pentagram’s Paula Scher, was meant to give the New School a modern, innovative look that is widely adaptable to many different platforms and doesn’t look as dated as its old spray-paint logo. But check out the Twitter hate it’s getting! Full story : www.fastcodesign.com
Vordik Designer Spotlight: Damian Watracz
Strategist is the definitive guide to marketing and branding strategy. Damian Watracz
here they interview graphic designer Damian Watracz … who says he is : “dedicated to create beautiful and functional websites and interfaces. ‘m currently available to hire as a freelancer or part-time designer. ” Full story : strategistmagazine.co Here is a Another sample…
New Photography Acquisitions at Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
“New Photography Acquisitions” will open at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum March 27, 2015. This exhibition presents a selection of the newest additions to the Museum’s photography collection, many of which have never been published or exhibited at the Museum.
After Stieglitz’s death and O’Keeffe’s move to the remote village of Abiquiu in New Mexico, the artist continued to be a subject of interest to important photographers of the day, who journeyed to New Mexico and captured the artist in her environment, at home and in the landscape. Important portrait photographers such as Philippe Halsman, Yousuf Karsh, John Loengard, Arnold Newman and Tony Vaccaro followed her west. O’Keeffe friends Ansel Adams and Todd Webb, famous for their landscape photography, composed portraits of the artist–working the stark New Mexico scenery into the frame. Later pictures by Doris Bry, George Daniell, and Arnold Newman portray O’Keeffe in her New Mexico homes and in the surrounding landscape. Full story : Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Here is The Architecture section
Perfect archives for collage artists, designers and collectors
WOW … graphic artists are forever looking for resource and reference materials! Now, there’s an app for that.
Gallica is the digital library of the the National Library of France. It contains imagery in the form of books, periodicals, maps, and other materials containing countless type treatments, illustrations, and photographs. (English Version ) Full story : Gallica par Bibliothèque nationale de France
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