graphic design
Stick Figures, Stunt Men of Signage
I just wanted to call attention to the plight of the stick figure, one of the most dangerous jobs in design. Check out the Flickr Pool - Stick Figures in Peril to learn more.
Office Cat Comic #2
The great escape.
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Office Cat Comic #1
Inspired by true life events… sigh…
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Civilian Typography
I had overlooked Jessica Helfland’s excellent article on civilian typography from earlier in the year. Please allow me to redeem myself. Worth reading if only to find out what “Taxidermy Gothic” is.
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Daily News a Designer could love
World News has never looked so good. Activate
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Drop Shadows Not Bombs
Stylish and hilarious.
Simply Personal, Event Planning & Designs
Simply Personal, based in Dallas, is a full service custom design and event consulting company offering everything from marketing and promotional materials, to wedding invitations, website design, birthday invitations, birth announcements, shower invitations, maps, holiday cards to successfully planning the perfect event.
A full description of services, pricing and portfolio is available on the Simply Personal website.
Design for the bottom line
One of the hardest concepts to get through to clients and co-workers is that design is principally functional, not decorative. While we can conceptualize the word design as a noun, it started off as a verb and when it comes right down to it a good design is designed to do something, to mean something, to communicate something. In the words of William Carlos Williams, a mantra for creative work of all kinds - “no ideas except in things.”
With this in mind, it’s refreshing to see design blogger Niti Bhan, Core77 tackle the profit equation of design in recent posts. A article from Display & Design Ideas chronicles McDonald’s most recent attempt to attack the bottom line with design, following the company’s first quarterly loss at the end of 2002, and the unflattering image cast from movies like SuperSize Me