Holiday Card inspires resolutions worth keeping
It’s January now, and that means dusting off old New Year’s Resolutions, and trying them out again. My guess is many of them have already have been tossed to the winds. Mine was to install internet. Seeing as how today is January 22 it is safe to say I’ve forgotten it. Here’s a greeting card … Read more
Pizza flyers pose design paradoxes
Underconsideration author Jonathan Baldwin tackles the fine line between the good, the bad, and the utilitarian of graphic design. Thanks to kiwi Natalie Smith for digging this up! Are pizza flyers well designed? The reason I ask is that someone recently said, in all seriousness, that the role of graphic design historians is to identify … Read more
For Print Only Awards, Winners
For Print Only releases their judging and winners! Tune in next week to see these entries. As far as nerdy design things to do it doesn’t get much better than a day sequestered in a room replete with some of the best printed pieces from the U.S. and abroad and getting to touch them, smell them, open … Read more
The functionality of the mass mailout
Posted by amARTS&MEDIA on September 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Yesterday I posted an essay from Underconsideration about pizza flyers, and the need to design for a target audience. Today you get my opinion. So are there good pizza designs? Pizza flyers are usually horribly designed, but its a utilitarian sort of thing relying on function, rather than aesthetics. It could be pretty or as … Read more
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