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Mar 11th,
2010
Chirstoph Niemann’s opinion column on the New York Times was recently updated and they nearly knocked me out of my chair. His simple visuals that marry great ideas with something we are familiar with are a great recipe for success. Definitely check out his work.
Mar 10th,
2010
One of North America’s five largest film festivals, The Cleveland International Film Festival, begins next Thursday, March 18th at 7:00 pm at Tower City Center.
Founded in 1977, the Cleveland International Film Festival has been presented every spring for over three decades. Ohio’s premier film event features over 240 films originating from close to 60 countries. Visiting filmmakers, panel discussions, and student screenings are all CIFF highlights.
Tickets are on sale now. For more information, including a listing of films that will be playing, visit the CIFF site.
Mar 2nd,
2010
On March 25 at 7pm, AIGA Kent and the School of Visual Communication Design Present: Paul Sahre. He will be speaking in the First Energy Interactive Auditorium on the Kent Campus. The admission will be free for those with Kent State ID, and $5 for all others. This is going to be a great event and we are thrilled to have one of our alumni back.
Links for all you people who like to click on things:
Paul Sahre
Facebook Event
AIGA Kent on Twitter
Big ups to Jason Bacher for creating this poster for AIGA Kent. Check out his work too.
Feb 16th,
2010
Wired magazine has always been my favorite non-design magazine about design. They push the boundaries of publication design and they are always pushing the boundaries of their magazine and their online presence. Well, now they are doing it again. Wired is teaming up with Adobe to bring their magazine to tablet devices and it looks delicious. Even the advertisements are interesting. I can’t wait for this to come to the market. It looks fantastic.
More info can be found at Wired.
via @H_FJ
Feb 16th,
2010
In response to the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the Society of Typographic Aficionados issued a call to action to the typographic and design communities to participate in Font Aid IV. The result was Coming Together, an OpenType font that contains over 400 ampersand glyphs designed by participants from around the world. All proceeds from the sale of the typeface go to Doctors Without Borders, in support of continuing relief efforts in Haiti.
Close to 400 people from 37 countries submitted an ampersand design to this font. A full list of contributors is available on the The Society of Typographic Aficionados website.
You can purchase this typeface on Veer for $20, with all proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders.
Feb 4th,
2010
AIGA has released a complete redesign of the AIGA Design Archives site. The site design, by Second Story, has moved away from the previous Flash interface to an easier to use, HTML site.
The new interface is very easy to browse, and sort the thousands of pieces on the site. You can sort by designer, year, geography, topic, AIGA featured collections, discipline, industry, format, color & more. It’s really well done.
They’ve also managed to add ’share’ buttons to share work on all of your favorite social networking sites. The move away from Flash even means this will presumably work on all mobile browsers.
Very well done. See the new site at designarchives.aiga.org.
Feb 4th,
2010
I’ve featured a few t-shirts recently that you can purchase to help the Haiti efforts (here and here), but when I came across The Haiti Poster Project it really hit me that I can help more than just giving money. I can help in the way I know best: design.
Created by the 2005 Hurricane Poster Project and the 2007 So-Cal Fire Poster Project organizers, artists and designers from all over are able to contribute between 25-100 limited edition posters to be sold on the site and all proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders.
Here are the basic details, but for more, visit the project’s site, TheHaitiPosterProject.com.
• DEADLINE: May 1st. Submissions will be accepted after this date, but given the timelines of the situation, they strongly encourage designers to meet this deadline.
• 11×17″ minimum, ideal size is 18×24″. Poster can be produced by litho, digital or silk-screen print.
• Posters should be signed and numbered editions in quantities of 25-100.
A couple of us here at The Donut Project will be contributing and we really hope you will too!
Feb 2nd,
2010
Dead!… well, sort of… Google has been discouraging users from using Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) and urging them to upgrade for a little while now, but they’ve finally put their foot down. Google has officially announced they will no longer support IE6 on their Google Apps.
This is a great step forward for the Web, because it will force many users to upgrade their browsers to something that supports modern technology, giving them the full breadth of the internet while browsing more securely. It also will give designers more leverage when discussing projects with clients. “Support IE6? Even Google doesn’t do that!, it’ll co$t ya.”
The web has evolved in the last ten years, from simple text pages to rich, interactive applications including video and voice. Unfortunately, very old browsers cannot run many of these new features effectively. So to help ensure your business can use the latest, most advanced web apps, we encourage you to update your browsers as soon as possible. There are many choices:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0+
Mozilla Firefox 3.0+
Google Chrome 4.0+
Safari 3.0+
Many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers. We’re also going to begin phasing out our support, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites. As a result you may find that from March 1 key functionality within these products — as well as new Docs and Sites features — won’t work properly in older browsers.
2010 is going to be a great year for Google Apps and we want to ensure that everyone can make the most of what we are developing. Please take the time to switch your organization to the most up-to-date browsers available.
Three cheers for Google saying no more. We’re one step closer to no longer worrying about the pain-in-our-collective-ass that is IE6.
Feb 1st,
2010
Neil Wengerd is doing his part to help the country of Haiti. I’ll let him explain: “As I’m hope you’re all aware, the earthquake in Haiti has had devastating consequences that will take years to reverse. I want to do something, in some small way, to do my part help raise some money to help.
For this reason, I’m now putting up for sale 2 posters I designed in the past 4 months, both with an extremely limited run. The first is a gig poster for The Hold Steady, for a show they played in Minneapolis. The second is a smaller poster lamenting the decline of wood type and letter press, which should appeal to all the typophiles and design geeks out there. 100% of the proceeds will be sent to Haiti (sans reimbursement for shipping).”
Jan 30th,
2010
The Donut Project is one year old today! Woohoo! I think it’s only appropriate to (finally!!) show a picture of what the heck ‘the donut project’ actually is. Hey, it only took us a year to take a picture of it :)
Yep, that’s it. As graduates of Kent State’s VCD program, this was the first project we had to complete in our first class. This is graphic design? we asked. The project was the first of many to exercise our handskills, precision and attention to detail, which now serve us well as big-kid designers. The project consisted of inking on white board an exact square and circle, with rules throughout. Missing your mark by 1/32 of an inch was considered wrong and was marked clearly and often on your trace paper cover. {Click on either photo to see bigger}
This project is something that unites all Kent designers, because we all suffered through it. It’s a badge of honor. When a few friends got together to brainstorm for a design inspiration site, we could think of no better name, and The Donut Project was born. We’ve enjoyed sharing our inspiration with you so far, and while we’re still a baby in the grand scheme of Al Gore’s Internetz, we’re shocked & very thankful for the audience we’ve amassed over the past year. Thank each one of you for reading, commenting, tweeting/retweeting, just leaving a hello in our inbox, and submitting things for us to post.
The Donut Project is steadily growing and we’re soon going to outgrow this current site design. We want to bring you more inspiration, from more contributors and make it all easier to find. We have entirely new ideas to bring to you too. A new site redesign is currently underway and will be up in the coming weeks. So stay tuned, keep reading, commenting, and doing everything that you do — and please, let us know — what would you like to see out of us in the future?