Every last Friday of the month kor group does beers and ideas as a way to share anything that inspires us. This past Friday we were all talking about how we present our research findings to a client in a fluid way and that is less two dimensional. It would be great if we could [...]

Phillipe Starck has declared that “design is dead,” and that the designer of the future will be a personal trainer. (Breitbart via Gawker)
Everyone go out and work on their pushup technique pronto.

Are you concerned what will happen to your brand in the to seemingly lawless Millennials that have taken the digital world by storm? Worried that your brand is going to be left behind in Web 1.0? Are you terrified of interacting online? I’ve got news for you, my friend. It’s time to OPEN up.
What [...]

BRAND NEW takes an in-depth look at the new identity for the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

I recently discovered while working on a rather large multi-paged layout in InDesign, one can minimize the excruciatingly long wait-time for the page thumbnail to redraw by simply doing the following: In the page icon, next to the master pages there is a pull-down menu item; pull down to panel options, then deselect the show [...]

It’s common knowledge around the office that I’m a bit of a car junkie. In fact, they NY International Auto Show is a tradition for my dad and I. Over the weekend I made the yearly pilgrimage to The Javits Center in New York City for the big show. You can see some photos here. [...]

Helvetica is not the only one turning 50 this year. CBS’ Sunday Morning marked the 50th Anniversary of the Peace Symbol this week. Originally designed by Gerald Holtom for the British group Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), the symbol is based upon Naval sign language for the letters ‘N’ and ‘D’. It’s use by a [...]

COMPFIGHT is a great tool to find photos to comp with via Flickr. It even has a creative commons filter for when you’re not designing for profit.
-via BoingBoing

ilovedesign.com – propaganda for Quark or great work????
I say both.

It’s a good day for designers,  web standards, and my favorite web browser, Apple’s Safari. The latest release of the application, version 3.1 adds some great new features but one that designers will take note of as the web standards movement gains steam.
Designers are no longer tied to using the lovely, but often limiting, common [...]