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 Tuesday, December 04, 2007
In-HOWse Winners
HOW's upcoming Jan/Feb issues features the winners of our first annual In-HOWse Design Awards, but you can see the Honorable Mention winners right now on HOWdesign.com. Each category includes a slide show of winners along with credit information and insight into the projects.    Posted by Megan
HOW Magazine
12/4/2007 1:14:29 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00) 
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Extras
P22 and Lanston Type recently released LTC Goudy Extras, a set of over 50 ornaments, connecting borders, flourishes and decorative motifs originally designed by Frederic Goudy throughout his career. Many of these designs were used by Goudy at his Village Press and offered by his Village Foundry in the 1920s. The styles range from complex title page illustrations to simple linking borders, but all have the unique Goudy style.  Posted by Megan
Typography
12/4/2007 9:27:33 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Best Behavior
Behavior Design recently partnered with The Museum of Modern Art, New York, for their latest exhibition, Georges Seurat: The Drawings, creating an interactive touch-screen kiosk that enables MoMA’s visitors to virtually explore Seurat’s four surviving sketchbooks. Directly alongside their conventional showcase (each object opened to a single spread), the sketchbooks can be viewed in their magnificent entirety on two kiosk monitors. Behavior mastered numerous challenges to collect, digitize, and choreograph elements into an intuitive and becoming interface that gracefully reveals Seurat’s work and invites users to marvel and explore at will. Behavior Design also designed and developed a companion website to supplement the show and its themes, featuring a sampling of the sketchbooks, drawings, and other works alongside examples of Seurat’s working methodologies and processes.   Posted by Megan
Designers
12/4/2007 9:20:54 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Oh Bliss
Artists/designers Saelee Oh and Jill Bliss will be showing their collaborative illustrations at Giant Robot 2 in Los Angeles from December 8 through January 9. If you can't make it to the show, you can pick up a 2008 calendar of their work for just $15.    Posted by Megan
Events
12/4/2007 9:09:38 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Monday, December 03, 2007
Whoa!
I don't don't know how most people in Sweden celebrate Christmas, but I think the designers of the Pipparkakan cookie cutters will be having a merry time, indeed. This would be just the thing to liven up a bake sale or cookie swap!  via NotCotPosted by Megan
Gifts and Goodies
12/3/2007 3:06:29 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Friday, November 30, 2007
To A T
The New York Times just launched an impressive new website for T, The New York Times Style Magazine. The site has a bit of a print-publication feel with sophisticated typography and large images, but it's also super easy to navigate and fun to move around.   Posted by Megan
Industry News
11/30/2007 3:29:39 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Just Say No: How To Set Work Boundaries
by The Creative Group
You plan to spend your entire morning doing research for an advertising
campaign, something you've already had to put off for more than a week.
Just as you're digging into your work, your manager swings by to ask
you to proofread a client e-mail. This request is followed by one from
your co-worker who wonders if you want to have a "working lunch" to
brainstorm ideas for her upcoming project. Do you, as is typical, agree
to all these requests?
If you want to move ahead in your career, the answer should be
no. It may seem counterintuitive, but spreading yourself too thin means
that the quality of your work suffers. Setting limits at work will
prevent you from being overloaded and help you do your best on the
projects that are most important. Following are some tips.
Posted by Megan
HOW Magazine
11/30/2007 10:15:38 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
Go Elf Yourself
Building on the success of last year's holiday campaign, Toy New York and EVB, are bringing back the online phenomenon, ElfYourself.com, for OfficeMax's holiday effort. Last year, the site generated more than 11 million elves and kept users glued to the site for the equivalent of over 600 years. I visited the site to turn myself into an Elf, which was both fun and a bit disturbing. The dance moves are great, though.  Posted by Megan
Just for Fun
11/29/2007 11:24:29 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Design and Wine
Designer Josh Jakus's Wine Pocket is constructed of industrial wool felt collected from factory excess. It's both eco-friendly and stylish and now it's on sale at DWR for $29 with free shipping.  Posted by Megan
Gifts and Goodies
11/29/2007 8:39:07 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Green Paper
PaperSpecs is sponsoring a free webinar, Sustainability-Hands On, with guest speaker Brian Dougherty of Celery Design Collaborative. The event, which takes place on December 13, will provide practical information about spec'ing sustainable paper and other ideas to decrease the environmental impact of your designs. Posted by Megan
Events
11/28/2007 1:43:27 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Design On Sale
During the month of December, you can get 15% off all orders from Inhabit, purveyers of graphic sheets, pillows and wall decor (just enter HOLIDAY07 during checkout). All the products are designed by husband and wife team Jennifer and Mike Tuttle who also run a design firm called Planet 10.  Posted by Megan
Gifts and Goodies
11/28/2007 9:02:09 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Overcoming Barriers To Creativity
by The Creative Group
Breaking new creative ground can be a challenging proposition for
designers. In a recent survey by our company, eight out of 10 in-house
designers said it's difficult to convince senior management to accept
ideas that deviate from the prevailing corporate style. And more than a
quarter of respondents cited their company's unwillingness to take
risks as the most frequent obstacle to creativity.
On the bright side, many in-house designers feel they can
exercise more creativity than they did five years ago. However, it
remains difficult to break certain barriers. Following are seven
strategies for overcoming challenges and enhancing creative freedom. Posted by Megan
Creativity
11/27/2007 10:03:10 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Readable Script
Ventura, a recent relase from TypeTrust, is a legible script with a nice set of alternate characters. The single-weight face sells for $26.  Posted by Megan
Typography
11/27/2007 8:59:35 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Listen Up
I first saw Jason Munn of thesmallstakes.com speak at this year’s Design Camp, from Minnesota AIGA. I just got word of an interview he did with Dave of grainedit.com, which features some great design examples (much it being beautiful vintage ones, but other categories of the blog cover “designers bookshelf,” “thrift hawks,” and “how to/diy”). 
Design Resources | Designers
11/20/2007 2:52:56 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Applying Made Interesting
Trying to clean out the HOW inbox before we all disappear for Thanksgiving weekend, I just received an enigmatic postcard, not surprisingly from Wieden + Kennedy. As per their hallmark of piquing your interest and leaving with a cliffhanger, the postcard included removable stickers and simply pointed to a website, wk.com/seeking. Of course I followed, and found that they're hiring, but even if you're not looking, the site itself is worth a gander, having the ability to make a call for applications actually interesting and enticing.
Industry News
11/20/2007 11:24:01 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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(Not) Staples
From our favorite OFFICE supply store in Portland comes news of an upcoming exhibit and a few cool new products: They're featuring 10 nationally recognized female letterpress artists in a show called (natch) LET HER PRESS, which opens November 29 and runs through January 19. Creative gals from Hammerpress, YeeHaw, Egg Press (all of whom have been featured in HOW) and others are participating; each artist has produced 5 prints, which will be for sale during the show. During opening weekend (November 29 to December 1), OFFICE is offering discounts on letterpress cards and papergoods in its shop. Also new to the store: These cute (almost sexy, in a schoolgirl-fantasy sort of way) Japanese book bags. 
Gifts and Goodies
11/20/2007 10:02:11 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Monday, November 19, 2007
Yeah, it's Quiet Around Here, Too ...
Just for Fun
11/19/2007 2:30:53 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Feed the Monster
Russel Quadros of AIGA Jacksonville recently sent us a little reminder about next spring's re:Charge08 conference in J'ville, April 3–5. HOW editor Sarah Whitman attended two years ago and had a blast. It's a great opportunity to, as they say, feed your creative monster. 
Events | Industry News
11/19/2007 11:04:32 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Friday, November 16, 2007
Music House
I just got an email from designer Jeff Harrison about a CD cover project he recently designed for the band Vonnegut Dollhouse. You can see images of the finished CD here and images of the design process on Flickr. (Did I mention how cool I think this is?)   Posted by Megan
Designers
11/16/2007 11:53:23 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Wrapping Roundup
Gifts and Goodies
11/16/2007 11:45:32 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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