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    Entries tagged “article”

    article     design     designers     iPad     opinion     publishing     illustration    
    22 notes
    “Jobs Saves: If the iPad manages to save publishing, that doesn’t mean it’s going to save publishing design…” —a must-read article by Khoi Vinh in Print magazine(illustration by Ashkahn Shahparnia)

    “Jobs Saves: If the iPad manages to save publishing, that doesn’t mean it’s going to save publishing design…” —a must-read article by Khoi Vinh in Print magazine

    (illustration by Ashkahn Shahparnia)

    books     covers     design     publishing     e-books     culture     article    
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    In E-Book Era, You Can’t Even Judge a Cover

    “…Among other changes heralded by the e-book era, digital editions are bumping book covers off the subway, the coffee table and the beach…

    A good jacket is unlikely to save a bad book, of course. But in a crowded market, a striking cover is one advantage all authors and publishers want. To get a sense of the odds, in a random analysis of 1,000 business books released last year, Codex Group, a publishing consultant, found that only 62 sold more than 5,000 copies.

    Even in the digital era, publishers believe that books need graphic representations —
    if only for the online marketing campaign. Regardless of the format, “they all seem to need what we know of as a cover to identify them,” said Chip Kidd…”

    —Motoko Rich for The New York Times,
    (worth reading the full article to also catch a quote from Mario J. Pulice)

    design     fashion     vintage     stores     article    
    Notes
    New York Mag gives a “mini-tour of Partners & Spade,” new venture from Andy Spade (from article The Spades’ New Bag)

    New York Mag gives a “mini-tour of Partners & Spade,” new venture from Andy Spade

    (from article The Spades’ New Bag)

    decade     technology     media     article     nostalgia     culture     design    
    12 notes
    “21 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade”(via nytimesbits on twitter, via the business insider, photograph of phonebook via Wallula Junction)

    “21 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade”
    (via nytimesbits on twitter, via the business insider,
    photograph of phonebook via Wallula Junction)

    design     AIGA     illustration     article    
    5 notes
    “The Decade of Dirty Design” article by Steven Heller(via AIGA, illustrations above by Andy Smith)

    “The Decade of Dirty Design” article by Steven Heller
    (via AIGA, illustrations above by Andy Smith)

    furniture     design     business     economy     home     article    
    8 notes
    “The Rise and Fall of Design Within Reach”(article via Fast Company)

    “The Rise and Fall of Design Within Reach”
    (article via Fast Company)

    video     design     architecture     museum     Israel     article    
    13 notes
    “Ron Arad Rips Off Richard Serra in His First Major Building: The path-breaking furniture designer is about to complete a design museum in Israel…” (article and video via Fast Company)

    “Ron Arad Rips Off Richard Serra in His First Major Building: The path-breaking furniture designer is about to complete a design museum in Israel…”
    (article and video via Fast Company)

    article     design     infographics     tv    
    17 notes
    “The Peculiar Logic of Remote Control Design”(article via frog/design mind)

    “The Peculiar Logic of Remote Control Design”
    (article via frog/design mind)

    Disney     animation     film     article    
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    “For ‘The Princess and the Frog,’ Disney Returns to Traditional Animation Style” “…Walt Disney Co.’s first hand-animated feature film in nearly six years, is a gamble by the studio that audiences will respond to the traditional medium of Mickey Mouse in an era when animation is dominated by slick computer-generated fare from Pixar Animation and DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. …” (article via WSJ.com)

    “For ‘The Princess and the Frog,’ Disney Returns to Traditional Animation Style”

    “…Walt Disney Co.’s first hand-animated feature film in nearly six years, is a gamble by the studio that audiences will respond to the traditional medium of Mickey Mouse in an era when animation is dominated by slick computer-generated fare from Pixar Animation and DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. …”

    (article via WSJ.com)

    design     brandsm apple     article     language    
    19 notes
    “When Great Design Becomes Its Own Language”(via Fast Company)

    “When Great Design Becomes Its Own Language”
    (via Fast Company)

    arts     design     education     recession     New Deal     news     murals     public art     art     article    
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    The Projects Built by the New Deal | Newsweek.com “At its height, the New Deal provided the largest public-arts program in the world. In addition to the famous public murals of the era, the Federal Writers Project and the Federal Theater Project, the government funded small arts organizations designed to both teach art and get unemployed artists off the dole. As a result, small institutions like the Walker Gallery in Minneapolis expanded to provide classes and other arts-related social programs. Now known as the Walker Art Center (above in 1941), the gallery has become a world-renowned modern art museum, still offering classes to both children and adults…” (via absurdlakefront: think4yourself: julyshewillfly)



    The Projects Built by the New Deal | Newsweek.com

    “At its height, the New Deal provided the largest public-arts program in the world. In addition to the famous public murals of the era, the Federal Writers Project and the Federal Theater Project, the government funded small arts organizations designed to both teach art and get unemployed artists off the dole. As a result, small institutions like the Walker Gallery in Minneapolis expanded to provide classes and other arts-related social programs. Now known as the Walker Art Center (above in 1941), the gallery has become a world-renowned modern art museum, still offering classes to both children and adults…”

    (via absurdlakefront: think4yourself: julyshewillfly)

    article     publishing     blog     print     web     technology     business     start-up    
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    Publisher Rethinks the Daily: It’s Free and Printed and Has Blogs All Over article The Printed Blog gets a write-up in the Start-Ups section of the NYTimes.com


    Publisher Rethinks the Daily: It’s Free and Printed and Has Blogs All Over article

    The Printed Blog gets a write-up in the Start-Ups section of the NYTimes.com

    typography     Jan Tschichold     article     design     Penguin    
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    the brilliance of typographer Jan Tschichold “The man who perfected Penguin’s classic paperback deserves to be remembered as one of the great designers of the 20th century.” — Richard Hollis, from article in The Guardian: Jan Tschichold: a titan of typography (discovered article via a post made by Brian Slawson)

    the brilliance of typographer Jan Tschichold

    “The man who perfected Penguin’s classic paperback deserves to be remembered as one of the great designers of the 20th century.” — Richard Hollis, from article in The Guardian: Jan Tschichold: a titan of typography

    (discovered article via a post made by Brian Slawson)