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We're on a skeleton crew for Wednesday before the big holiday weekend, so the ol' blog will be quiet tomorrow. In the meantime, here are a few bits of inspiration and eye candy we've recently added to HOWdesign.com to keep you occupied: • See a collection of design rockstars talking about their favorite-of-all-time pr...ojects in our regular feature, My Best Work: Gail Anderson on her high-school doodles, Michael Bierut on a poster handwritten by his daughter, Louise Fili...
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Posted:2009-11-24 20:59:15 GMT
OK, so this is apropos of nothing design-wise, but it's a crappy-weather day here at HOW HQ, and those of us in the office are marking time before our company holiday starts tomorrow at noon. So when someone posted on Facebook this link to the Muppets version of "Bohemian Rhapsody," you can bet I clicked, grinned and had to share....
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Posted:2009-11-24 19:58:04 GMT
A bunch of news tidbits have been piling up in our in-boxes recently, including these items: • Earlier this month, Neenah Paper launched its second app for the iPhone and iTouch, an eco-calculator (previously available as a web tool and BlackBerry app). Type in the amount of paper you estimate for a project, and the E...co-Calculator tabulates the environmental impact of your paper choice, showing water, energy and wood conservation, among other info....
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Posted:2009-11-24 16:20:54 GMT
The Smithsonian's Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture has opened a new exhibition of more than 100 holiday cards designed by artists for their personal use. The collection includes seasonal greetings by Alexander Calder, Pablo Cano and other artists from the early- through late-1900s. Some of them are a bi...t dark, most make no reference to commonplace seasonal imagery, and all of them bear a certain intimacy, as they were one-of-a-kind pieces intended for a...
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Posted:2009-11-24 15:25:19 GMT
Assistant Professor, Time-Based Media University of Tennessee, Knoxville The successful candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate courses in Design and 4D and assume an active role in the development of curriculum and building of facilities including collaborating on the development of the new Design + 4D area.... Other duties include participation in departmental duties, student advising, and service on committees that support the educational mission of the program....
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Posted:2009-11-24 13:42:53 GMT
Shopping for a rack to store your favorite design mags? Check out this beauty from Crate and Barrel. Oh look, it's already holding a copy of HOW. We love Crate and Barrel and are super psyched that they used the mag in a product shot. How cool is that?! Posted by Megan
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Posted:2009-11-23 14:53:19 GMT
More proof of design's influence on business: Debbie Millman's new book Look Both Ways (published by HOW) just got a great review on 800ceoread, a website and blog about business books. I urge any remotely creative group to order a box of these. It will change the way you think about things, how things work, how things... look, what brands mean to us and how they function, and how all this work and business and function...
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Posted:2009-11-23 14:44:48 GMT
Digital Brand Manager Emmis Communications, New York City Emmis New York Radio, a division of Emmis Communications is currently seeking a Digital Brand Manager with content management skills who can hit the ground running for WQHT, HOT 97 America's premier Hip Hop radio brand. This candidate would be responsible for ...the design, look and feel of the station website and related products....
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Posted:2009-11-23 14:37:04 GMT
Designers! We need your help! HOW is all about bringing you the resources, inspiration and information you need to be more creative and more successful. As we develop new ideas for next year, we want your opinion about what products and resources you need the most. Please take our survey (it's a quick one, promise)....
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Posted:2009-11-23 14:30:00 GMT
Fontfabric offers a small, but interesting, collection of geometric typefaces. Several are available for free download, including 2 weights of Oval, an aggressively contemporary font family. Fontfabric is an independent type foundry , which was launched at the close of 2008 by designer Svetoslav Simov who is based in S...ofia, Bulgaria. Our goal is to create high-quality fonts which stand in a unique class of their own, and which will serve as a good base for any designer project...
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Posted:2009-11-20 20:25:42 GMT
Designer Andrea Pippins (who runs Fly, one of my fave blogs) just announced a project she recently completed for Free People: hand-embellished high-top All-Star Chucks! It looks like they worked with a handful of different designer to make these super short run shoes. If you want to nab some truly unique kicks, check them all out here. Posted by Megan
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Posted:2009-11-20 20:14:25 GMT
Design Director/Graphic Design Manager SRI International, Menlo Park, CA This combined role of design director and manager of the graphic design team within SRI International's Corporate and Marketing Communications Department involves managing activities of the graphic design function and staff in support of SRI's b...usiness objectives. The successful candidate will be able to handle multiple projects and deadlines deftly, meet customer expectations consistently, and direct designers effectively, and will have excellent interpersonal, time management, and project management skills....
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Posted:2009-11-20 13:00:20 GMT
This is such a cool design school project: Students in Jason Santa Maria’s Communicating Design class were assigned the task of designing their own local currency. Inspired by Ithaca Hours and BerkShares, students pulled a neighborhood out of a hat, and were asked to research their neighborhood to determine what charac...teristics should be represented on its currency. via Kitsune Noir Posted by Megan
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Posted:2009-11-19 15:22:37 GMT
Regional Creative Director Carlson Marketing Worldwide, Troy, MI Our services include everything from interactive, creative, loyalty, employee engagement, channel marketing, events and meetings, decision sciences and analytics to seeing a smile on our clients' faces. The Regional Creative Director serves as a seni...or representative of Carlson Marketing’s creative standards, beliefs and reputation working with the VP, Creative-US....
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Posted:2009-11-19 12:35:24 GMT
My friend Claudean, a designer here at F+W Media, sent me a link to the Yee-Haw Industries etsy store and it totally blew me away. You can find T-shirts, cards, calendars, posters and more inspired by and printed with their huge collection of vintage wood type. Of course, my favorite products were all about zombies, li...ke this type-tastic T-shirt: These zombie face prints created from rare metal type: and this handy public service message poster: Posted by Megan
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Posted:2009-11-18 13:29:31 GMT
Interactive Designer with Print Experience Miles Media, Sarasota, FL Miles Media is America's leading publisher of high quality tourism destination print guides, websites and other interactive media. This SARASOTA FLORIDA HQ opening is for an Interactive Graphic Designer with exceptional experience in web page layout..., and knowledge of print design. Our designers contribute to concept development and production of award-winning travel websites that inform and inspire potential visitors....
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Posted:2009-11-18 13:06:12 GMT
Pratt Manhattan Gallery opens an exhibition on Thursday, “Ethics + Aesthetics = Sustainable Fashion.” It purports to be the "first American exhibition to investigate the sustainable practices of American fashion designers, many of whom are based in New York City." The show runs through February 20, 2010; the opening re...ception is Thursday, November 19 from 6 p.m....
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Posted:2009-11-17 21:11:56 GMT
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finding some awesome quotes as we go thru old issues of HOW in prep for the 25th anniversary: “Computers do not make everything look alike. It’s just that so many people tend to sit at the computer and do the same things.”
—Scott Makela, “The Eclectic Imager” August 1994
If you paid ANY attention to the design annuals in the 1990s, you couldn't miss the work of Des Moines, IA-based Sayles Graphic Design. John Sayles' graphic, bold, stylistic work garnered much attention throughout that decade and well into this one. His business partner, Sheree, was a frequent source for HOW on marketi...ng and biz-dev topics, and both of them made more than one appearance at the HOW Design Conference....
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Posted:2009-11-17 15:39:36 GMT
The Font Bureau has combed through its collection to highlight a few faces that are perfect for the upcoming holidays. Narcissus is based directly on a 1921 German revival of Fournier’s celebrated 18th-century ornamented types and conveys an organic charm. Niagara Engraved, on the other hand, recalls the crisp..., elegant, soaring geometry of the early 20th century. Ironmonger Inlaid may have been originally inspired by wrought iron and perforated steel, but in the right context it can be surprisingly festive....
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Posted:2009-11-17 14:03:51 GMT
The Out of Hand International Festival just announced the winners of its inaugural competition. The School of Visual Arts (SVA), in partnership with Giraldi Media, sponsored the festival which is intended to be a showcase for innovative digital content created by students worldwide for playback specifically on mobile o...r other handheld devices. My favorite entry is called Blackrainbow. Entries for the 2010 competition are already being accepted. Posted by Megan
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Posted:2009-11-17 13:46:20 GMT
Graphic Designer Abercrombie & Fitch, Columbus, OH Graphic Designers are responsible for creating brand specific artwork and interpreting current trends into A&F's handwriting. Through trend/vintage shopping, marketing and internet research, Graphic Designers develop seasonal graphic concepts for a wide range of appa...rel categories. After a concept is initialized, A&F Graphic Designers will work with the Research and Development team in our state-of-the-art Innovation and Design Center to develop cutting edge print, applique, and embroidery techniques. Collaboration with Design and Merchandising...
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Posted:2009-11-17 13:26:40 GMT
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HOW is constantly seeking to create events, online tools and products to help designers be more creative, more productive and more successful. As we develop new ideas for 2010, we would love your feedback!In exchange for your help, we're hosting a drawing for three FREE HOW Insider memberships. ...
AIGA president, affable radio host, branding guru (oh, and HOW author) Debbie Millman is hosting a bash next month to celebrate the publication of Look Both Ways (designed by Rodrigo Corral) and the filming of a television pilot for her show Design Matters, directed by Hillman Curtis and produced by the School of Visual Arts....
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Posted:2009-11-16 15:37:01 GMT
Environmental Graphic Designer Erwin-Penland Advertising, Greenville, SC Here’s two words that should spark your interest: pro sports. As in the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL. If you don’t know what those mean, um...sad. If you’re a fan, however, you may be who we’re looking for. You see, we need a highly talented and experi...enced environmental designer eager to work for a national account partnered with pro teams. Like yesterday. What would you be doing?...
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Posted:2009-11-16 12:39:06 GMT
It's not often that we get wind of a new design organization that's forming, but sure enough, this week marks the debut of the Society of Design. What's the deal? We asked Corie Deshong from the Lancaster, PA design firm Go Welsh (whose founder, Craig Welsh, is behind SOD) for scoop: The organization was created with t...he intention to find ways for designers to contribute to the greater community....
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Posted:2009-11-13 14:35:18 GMT
Copywriter JDK Design, Burlington, VT We are Jager DiPaola Kemp Design and we are looking for a copywriter. We don’t require much beyond a grounding in brand strategy and strategic thinking, the ability to write everything from headlines, print ads, brand names, product names, web content, email blasts, hangtags, str...ategy write-ups, presentation write-ups, entire catalogs, videos, POVs, campaigns, poems, rants, T shirts, stickers, point of sale, posters, and anything else that may present itself....
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Posted:2009-11-13 14:23:10 GMT
This new service really caught our eye, and if you're a designer, illustrator or photographer with an extensive online portfolio, you should check it out: ImageRights helps protect copyrights by scanning the web for unauthorized reuse of your work, using image-recognition technology. Upload your image files to the serv...ice, and you'll get a weekly report that details any matches ImageRights has discovered, along with contact info for the infringing sites so you can follow-up with a...
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Posted:2009-11-13 14:19:00 GMT
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HOW is constantly seeking to create events, online tools and products to help designers be more creative, more productive and more successful. As we develop new ideas for 2010, we would love your feedback!In exchange for your help, we're hosting a drawing for three FREE HOW Insider memberships. ...
Next week, the House Industries crew is descending on the Type Directors Club in New York City for two days of typographic goodness. Thursday, November 19, they're setting up a pop-up shop at TDC HQ, where you can purchase any number of House products (color us jealous), followed by an evening presentation, Letter as Image....
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Posted:2009-11-12 13:43:15 GMT
HOW magazine recommends next week's webinar with Jeff Fisher on how to thrive as a creative freelancer.
Graphic Designer - How to Survive as a Freelance Designer - Live DesignCast Registration - Save on B
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Register today to attend this live DesignCast and become a more efficient freelance designer! Session date: ThursdayNovember 19, 2009* Starting time: 4:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time Duration: 1 hour *You will also have access to the archived version of this DesignCast for one year! ...
