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Pictured: The products and designers; top: Braun, bottom: Apple

Great article at Gizmodo: 1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple’s Future.

Found via twitter.com/undrln

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Good graphic designers are trained to do amazing things in the realm of communication. And many clients just see the surface: make me a logo, I like yellow, so you should use yellow.

This article really nails it:

How to (and not to) work with a designer by Daniel Will-Harris

(Nails it so well, I’ve posted it as a link as part of the Manifesto at my website)

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I just finished designing the MySpace page for Normandie, a side project of Aimee, Jamie and Chelsea of theSTART. (Did the custom lettering for the logo too)

The key word in this design project was ‘decadent.’ Click on either image for the link.

Tags: design, music, originally posted on my myspace blog by steve
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Swiss International Style guru Massimo Vignelli has released a new book on using type in graphic design. In it he explains in concise detail how it’s done. And as with all his work, it’s precise, clean, neat. Also, it’s free.

Download here: The Vignelli Canon [PDF]

Tags: cool finds, design, education, originally posted on my myspace blog, typography by steve
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Picked up this book while in El Lay.

More images from the book can be seen at the Victonary site.

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Found via Apartment Therapy

IKEA sets up a mock Oval Office in Union Station – bringing a touch of low cost Sweden to the White House. (or to make a Carter reference: Looks like IKEA is bringing ‘Billy’ back to the White House.)

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I will be one of the presenters at Sacramento Pecha Kucha Night 6 [Read more →]

Tags: design, design history, education, originally posted on my myspace blog, thoughts, typography by steve
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Here’s a sampling of The New York Times’ fav book covers of 2008  . . .

And I have egg on my face.

Christopher Le, a former student of mine, came up with a similar idea for a similar book (in my old publication design class). And I kinda talked him into doing something else:

Thanks for Campbell for sending this link over.

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I’ve been working on this one for a few months and as I write this we’re about 1/2 way thru set up. [Read more →]

Tags: art, design, education, events, exhibitions, illustration, music, originally posted on my myspace blog, photography by steve
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