“The guys who brought you ArtKrush, the art magazine online, have joined forces again to create a new destination site. CallingMarcel is a national resource center where artists, writers and other arts-related people can get the vital information you need to get ahead.”

“A community blog to discuss, share and encourage exploration into the heart and soul of design from a Christian perspective.”

“At first glance, the terms ‘nostalgia’ and ‘technology’ make an unlikely, even incompatible pair. Technology invites change. Nostalgia resists. Technology looks to the future. Nostalgia clings to the past. But for centuries, these adversarial ideas have been harmoniously fused together to facilitate our acceptance of change and innovation by appealing to our longing for the past. Nostalgia and Technology: Embracing the New through Art and Design explores the role of art as a mediator in society’s acceptance and use of new technologies in the home.”

“I prepared this document as a handout to my October 2005 seminars on Infographic Design to the Visual Communications students at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and the Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay… Information graphics reveal the hidden, explain the complex and illuminate the obscure. Constructing visual representation of information is not mere translation of what can be read to what can be seen. It entails filtering the information, establishing relationships, discerning patterns and representing them in a manner that enables a consumer of that information construct meaningful knowledge.”

“Convincing cautious bosses of the benefits of a novel approach is a tricky business, but it can be done. Here’s how…”

“The Alvin Lustig Archive grew out of our admiration for this important modern design pioneer, one that we believe deserved much more attention than what is currently available. As graphic designers, Lustig’s passion for design in all aspects of life resonates with us and influences our own practice… Now, with more than 425 design examples, www.alvinlustig.com is the premier, educational online archive dedicated to the life and work of Alvin Lustig. We hope that you find this site as inspirational and educational as we did when creating it.”

“…an occasional publication from the Winterhouse Institute that adapts classic journalistic paradigms through the critical lens of visual inquiry.”

“‘Looking at a company’s homepage is like reading its palm…’ This truism appeared in a recent Business Week article about Yahoo. The author goes on to say that Yahoo’s relatively static, but crowded, homepage suggests infighting beneath, as corporate departments battle it out for lucrative positioning. Too many Fortune 500 homepages suffer from the same malady. They reflect too much of the dysfunction behind the scenes, and not enough of the companies’ intended brand messages.”

“There’s been a lot of talk in ‘design thinking’ circles about how the practice of design needs to do more to inform business. You won’t get any disagreement from me. But I haven’t seen a lot of talk of this being a two-way street. We seem to think business folks should appreciate the value that design brings, but we don’t expect designers to appreciate the value that business brings.”

“Determining the scope of any project isn’t an exact science. There is a whole lot of educated guesswork that goes into it. If that weren’t enough, there’s often negotiation that needs to happen, as a potential client might not place the same value on things as you do. We’ve had a few projects so far and most have gone pretty well. A few haven’t gone so well. Those that haven’t have had one glaring thing in common — they weren’t adequately scoped out.”

“The American Press Institute (API) announced today a major yearlong project to invent and test new business models to help newspapers thrive in the next decade. It’s called ‘Newspaper Next: The Transformation Project,’ and API is investing $2 million into this project, which it calls the centerpiece of the Institute’s 60th anniversary.”

“So it’s over. One of the great — as in all-time great — design publications has come to a close. Issue 69 of Emigre will be the last. Emigre the type foundry will live on, but founder, editor and designer Rudy VanderLans has commissioned his last article, conducted and transcribed his last interview, and composed his final message to his readers.”

“In our 25 year history, my company has developed stationery packages for perhaps hundreds of clients. In the past few months, we‚Äôve had a veritable run on them with several projects running concurrently through the studio. Writing similar proposals, evaluating scope and determining cost for a number of clients within a short period of time brought about an interesting internal discussion about the value of designing something as basic as a stationery package. The crux of the debate centered on whether or not the same set of deliverables could logically and justifiably be priced at different levels based on differing perceived and more important for this situation, real value to the client.”

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“As the line between software and hardware blurs, coding errors are increasingly playing tricks on our daily lives. Bugs don’t just inhabit our operating systems and applications — today they lurk within our cell phones and our pacemakers, our power plants and medical equipment. And now, in our cars. But which are the worst?”