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# Friday, January 05, 2007
Design Matters
Posted by Megan

Debbie Millman's popular podcast Design Matters begins its 4th season today with an interview with Malcolm and Joyce Gladwell. Tune in to VoiceAmerica Business from 3-4 to hear from these influential thinkers.


Industry News
Friday, January 05, 2007 4:44:42 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [0] 
# Thursday, January 04, 2007
Word As Image
Posted by Megan

via Notcot

These obsessive drawings of interiors by Swedish artist by Thomas Broomé meld type and image into a singular hypnotic vision.

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From the exhibition catalog:

ModernMantra is a series of 18 ”text drawings”, made in Indian ink on white paper. In a somewhat schematic fashion they portray sterile and depopulated interiors, often simply but properly furnished. One does not have to get very close to them to see that the drawings are really calligrammes, that the interiors are drawn with words that simultaneously describe what they depict.





Typography
Thursday, January 04, 2007 8:44:40 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [1] 
Keep Up The Tempo
Posted by Megan

Tempo, a new online magazine, is just another example of how sophisticated design is being created by more and more people. A group of Canadian high school students started the zine as their final senior project, but decided to keep it going online after they graduated. We'll been keeping an eye out for the next issue!


Creativity
Thursday, January 04, 2007 2:31:51 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [4] 
Brochure In A Box
Posted by Megan

The Design Box: Brochure Design Cards is a handy, first-of-a-kind card deck of 50 professionally-designed brochure layouts. It provides hundreds of ideas for designing marketing pieces for a diverse variety of business types. These at-a-glance cards can be used to help dial in client preferences, or as a design resource for the office or studio. The box also features a CD containing fully-editable digital sample templates from the StockLayouts design library and a quick-reference fractions-to-decimals conversion chart.

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Thursday, January 04, 2007 2:05:24 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [0] 
# Wednesday, January 03, 2007
We're Being 'Greenwashed'
Posted by Bryn

I love to cook. And I love working with fresh, local ingredients. I'm a Nutrition Facts box-reader, and I tend to go for minimally processed, natural foods without all the commercial fats and sugars. And yet, sometimes I feel like I'm being snookered by all the buzzwords and design cues employed in food packaging. Does the word 'Natural' slapped on a bag of fried snack chips or a can of 7-Up make them any more healthy? Really? Starbucks may be ditching trans fats in its baked goods, but that slab o' marble pound cake still packs a calorie wallop.

In an article in today's NYTimes, Kim Severson dubs this packaging/branding technique 'greenwashing.' Paula Scher and Brian Collins weigh in, derisively, on the trend. (Registration may be required to view the article.)

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Thought Provoking
Wednesday, January 03, 2007 2:38:12 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [3] 
# Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Champagne Wishes
Posted by Megan

If you've recovered from your New Year's celebrations, gather up all those spent champagne bottles and get to work. It's time again for the annual Design Within Reach Champagne Chair Challenge. Get inspired by last year's winner below.


Call for Entries
Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:48:37 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [1] 
# Wednesday, December 27, 2006
A Decade of Design on DVD
Posted by Bryn

Here's what to do with the cash in your holiday stocking: Print has issued 10 years of its Regional Design Annual (1996–2005) on DVD. For $49.95 (plus S+H), you get a decade of the best American design (that's more than 16,000 pieces) in a completely searchable collection, plus 12 months of access to the companion website.

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Design Resources
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 8:17:44 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [0] 
In Case You Missed It ...
Posted by Bryn

Commissioned by Kurt Andersen of Studio 360, Pentagram re-designed Christmas. Listen to the December 20 broadcast, and check out Pentagram's PowerPoint presentation. And while you're at it, subscribe to the Studio 360 podcast.


Industry News
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 6:07:51 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [0] 
They Probably Don't Think Alike
Posted by Bryn

Fast Company has posted a slideshow featuring its Top 10 Creative Minds of 2006. The list includes, in addition to JWT co-presidents Rosemarie Ryan and Ty Montague, a banker, an evangelist and a university president.


Thought Provoking
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 5:19:49 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [0] 
# Thursday, December 21, 2006
Not a Creature Was Stirring
Posted by Bryn

We're just about to close things down here at HOW HQ until after the holidays; we're all taking a break from magazine proofs, e-mails, conference planning and the like. The Blog is going to be fairly quiet next week. But we'll resume posting with gusto in the new year. Happy holidays!

HOW Magazine
Thursday, December 21, 2006 9:31:14 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [1]