Notes On Design

Sieda Johnson, NoD EditorA warm welcome to new NoD Editor Sieda Johnson...

You asked your legal, copyright, and trademark questions, and Jean has answered! All questions are culled from the comments section attached to the original ‘Ask Jean’ post. We invite you to ask more questions...

Friend of NoD and New York Fine Artist Annika Connor (Instructor of Watercolor at Sessions Online) has invited all NoD readers and subscribers to attend the Company Launch Party for ACTIVE IDEAS PRODUCTIONS. AI Productions, Inc...

The term “professional designer” can apply to anything from a service provider to a strategic partner, depending on a person’s individual experience, their approach to problem solving, and their relationship with a client...

The World Wide Web Consortium is planning to implement a new version of the Web accessibility guidelines this year, and it seems like many people have had negative things to say about the version 2.0 update (not official yet)...

Steven Heller’s latest tome, Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-century Totalitarian State, is an intense read. As an object, the book is an impressive chunk wrapped in black striped plastic, with the vibrant colors of propaganda peeking through the stripes from the inside cover...

Felt Laptop Bag by Tom Bihn Ebay has created a new sub-site where “shopping shapes the world.” World of good offers products designed with sustainability in mind...

You’ve probably already heard the news that Adobe announced Creative Suite 4 tv.adobe.com on September 23rd, the latest versions of its ubiquitous design apps...

If you are not actively involved with any social networks you need to stop reading this and sign up for a few. If you are not using social media to get your business out there and interacting in a new way with your clients, you are missing a huge opportunity...

I was already a pretty ambitious designer when I went to the Aspen Design Conference years ago. Mary Catherine Bateson, Margaret Mead’s daughter, spoke and I heard things that hadn’t occurred to me...

Rebecca works her magic with a soup can arrangement in her favorite space in the studio: a harvest table that doubles as workspace and office desk. Rebecca Cole thrives on creating unique floral, garden and interior designs with a rustic, natural aesthetic...

ANDY: Rick, regarding academia and it’s “fixation to ignore the really interesting and productive examples of online collaboration and to only showcase the grand Professors and organizing committee members of such conferences and the menial work they more often are doing” – that’s a real...

Since school is back in season, the inner tubes are deflated, and football is on the tube, I thought it was worthwhile to look back at ten notable summer events in the world of design. 1. June 17: Eames stamps stick The US Postal service honored the design legends we’ve been admiring for years...

Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring, the new novel come graphic design experiment by Zach Plague (aka: Zach Dodson) is equal parts both. It is what you get when a writer, who becomes a graphic designer, is also his own publisher...

Inspired by fellow contributor Chris Costello’s post Paying Your Dues My career also started humbly and I still think about those experiences every time I interview a young designer. I went to Phoenix for interviews near the end of my senior year...

You asked your legal, copyright, and trademark questions, and Jean has answered! All questions are culled from the comments section attached to the original ‘Ask Jean’ post. We invite you to ask more questions...

Good news for right brainers Whereas the craft of design; creating logos, layouts and Web designs, is becoming as much a property of amateurs as it is professionals, designers need to find new areas of unique value that they can provide their clients...

Does every business benefit from design? Think of your favorite hole-in-the-wall BBQ joint, or the local bakery down the block. Each time you go there, do you find yourself mentally re-designing their logo...

For my first guest post, I thought I would indulge myself with a topic that’s been haunting me for the last month or so – the nature of design and what I feel is its inherent (and necessary) idealism...

Renee Rupcich is the assistant art director of Men’s Vogue. Though her career has focused on graphic design and publishing (she was also senior designer at fashion/design magazine Surface), she also studied photography and worked as an assistant in photography studios in San Francisco...

Since it’s Friday, and because New York Fashion Week starts a week from today, we’re going to bring a little glamour into today’s post and take a look at the redesign of Interview magazine...

Design is a commodity A few years back I attended a design management seminar in San Francisco. The seminar was held on a refurbished ferry-boat docked at Pier 3 and featured a notable design speaker. The view of the bay was fantastic, and the information presented at the session was compelling...

Creative achievements seldom happen in isolation. A big part of making ideas happen is controlling how you come across to others...

John Bielenberg specializes in ‘thinking wrong”. This basically means thinking differently. And thinking in plural. Bielenberg believes that bringing a lot of like and unlike minds together to opens the possibilities for revolutionary ideas...

Google is currently building its new marketing unit, Google Creative Lab, which will promote the Google brand and products. The company is busy setting up offices in New York, San Francisco and London, with more to come in the future, probably...

The following post is the third part of an ongoing conversation between guest authors Rick Bennett and Andy Polaine, friends and partners in Omnium – a research group of academics, designers, artists, programmers and writers who work collaboratively (and from different countries) to explore the...

My neighborhood features dozens of examples of information design: notes to the mail service team...

Poster by Milton Glaser Design and politics have been on my mind lately (see yesterday’s post) and apparently, I’m not alone...