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- NAI National Workshop
Hartford, Connecticut
Tuesday, November 17 at 7:00pm - NAI Region 10 Workshop
Corbett, Oregon
Thursday, October 1 at 6:00pm
Interpretation By Design No Paper Airplanes
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Over the Christmas holiday I was able to hang out with two high school buddieswho are now life-long friends. It was a great time to be nostalgic and relive the good ol’ days—before the introduction ofmoral compasses, responsibilities, and obligations. ...
Interpretation By Design From NPR: The Best Album Covers of 2009. Thanks to Kelly Farrell for sending this along.
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In the 10 years Bob and I have been producing All Songs Considered, one thing we've both noticed is how easy it is to judge an album by its cover art. We get several hundred CDs in the mail each week, and as we quickly sort through them, we can often eyeball which ones we're going to like. ...
Chuck Lennox You guys are going to love this new product....
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typographic playing cardsJim Sutherland, a designer at Hat-trick Design, must have either lots of time, or a massive brain. As a personal challenge, he designed a full deck of cards--and then, resolved to depict the suit of the card using only the face-value on it. ...
Interpretation By Design Graphic Design Resolutions for a New Decade
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For the last 10 years, the back-to-back zeroes in the years 2000–2009 have wreaked havoc on typographic design, their rounded forms making those numerals look too far apart unless consciously kerned by an attentive typographer. ...
Interpretation By Design More insight into Shea's worldview and social life. Brace yourself.
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Cereal is quite possibly the perfect food. Some people consider themselves fine connoisseurs of wine and other fine foods. I consider myself a sommelier of compressed grain and sugar. My well-refined palate ...
Interpretation By Design Here's an item from NPR that should appeal to design nerds, science nerds, and detail purists
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'Tis the season for images of snowflakes. Unfortunately, many artistic renderings of snow crystals show an eight-sided structure — something that can't occur in nature. So this year, one scientist decided to set the record straight.
Interpretation By Design In case you hadn't heard, there's been some snow on the east coast recently.
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I have a confession to make. I realize that a lot of you don’t like me already and are only reading this because you thought it was one of Shea’s posts, but this is going to make you like me even less.
Interpretation By Design Shea proves that he is a nerd. Again.
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I try hard not to be a nerd, but sometimes I just can’t help it. With the Nerd Herd being a large part of the IBD community I am proud to say that not only am I a co-founder, I’m also a client. The value of community was confirmed to me in two recent incidents.
Interpretation By Design Why are we fans of Western Carolina University? It just became the first university to pick up IBD as a textbook! Go Catamounts!
Sarena fantastically horrible website. saw this one and immediately thought you would enjoy! :)
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Interpretation By Design Ask a Nerd: Does Graphic Design Matter?
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Help! A client doesn’t want me to use photos on interpretive signs because they “add clutter and don’t help achieve sign goals.” They suggest text only, or text with a map. Do you know of any good, recent research to help me convince them otherwise? —Joan
Interpretation By Design Thanks to friend of IBD Janna Bernstein Rhodes for turning us on to this weird, funny video about a typeface. It makes us feel like we're not alone when people send us typography-based comedy.
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An homage to the Neutra typeface inspired by the song Poker Face by Lady GaGa. 'NEUTRA' is actually pronounced 'NOY-trah', but that escaped our knowledge in the fits of fun we were having doing this project. ...
Interpretation By Design Shea's love/hate relationship with orange.
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IBD Management would like to welcome the return of snarky Shea back from his hiatus after several weeks of posts that were slightly confusing, borderline awkward, and weepy.
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From Friend of IBD Brian Trosko: This is supposed to be a leaked design document explaining how Pepsi arrived at its new logo: http://adage.com/images/random/0209/peps
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Back in July, I wrote a post called “Viva Las Logo!” about the identity system I had implemented for the 2010 NAI National Workshop to be held in Las Vegas. In the post, I noted that I never ...
