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Last night, Korn Design, a brand strategy and design firm with offices in Boston and New York, won the 2009 James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Restaurant Graphics for its branding campaign for The Corner Office Restaurant + Martini Bar in Denver, Colorado.

Korn Design’s spirited branding for The Corner Office plays off the juxtaposition of work and play. The brand experience entices guests, offering everything that a day at the office does not—good times, great cocktails and outstanding food. Featuring slinky photography, energetic colors, and amusing copy, the print collateral creates a visual playground. The environment includes signature supergraphics, rubberband-wall art features, photographic restroom doors, and a 35 foot tall exterior sign serving as a beacon to all.

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In our inbox this morning, a handful of news updates from around the design industry, including:

• Mark your calendar for a webinar on May 21 at 1:00 p.m. (ET) sponsored by FunctionFox, with creative business consultant Emily Ruth Cohen, FunctionFox CEO Mary-Lynn Bellamy-Willms and Deborah Dawton of the U.K.'s Design Business Association fielding live questions. Register here.

• Another calendar must-do: In Source is hosting a best practices seminar, "Practice Makes Perfect" on Friday, May 15 at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ. Speakers are consultant Shel Perkins and Steve Benfield, manager of SAS Institute's creative services team. More info at in-source.org.

• Neenah Paper introduced what it calls "an online version of our popular chip charts", a Color Comparison Chart that helps designers mix and match papers from across the mill's lines. Also from Neenah, an addition to its line of mobile paper specification tools for BlackBerry users: a Paper Calculator that converts pounds to sheets, GSM to basis weight and other pricing calculations.

• Wausau Paper's Exact Digital High Definition Smooth line is now certified for printing on HP Indigo equipment. More on Wausau's digital papers here. In other Wausau news, the company released a new print promotion, “Royal Texture: Add Dimension to Your Life,” that showcases the finishes and embossed paper in its Royal line of writing, text and cover papers.

• Boston-based Korn Design this week received the 2009 James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Restaurant Graphics for its branding campaign for The Corner Office Restaurant + Martini Bar in Denver.

• Domtar introduced a new ad campaign for its Cougar line, which features 98 brightness, high opacity and 10% recycled content, and a range of sizes and finishes. More info at MakingPaperFun.com.
 

Animator/Character Designer
American Greetings, Los Angeles

In this role, the Creative Developer uses creativity and knowledge of graphics software to create online greetings and other content.

The Creative Developer plans the design aesthetics and visual interpretation of product, assuring the content is creative, sendable, error-free and produced on time.

The Creative Developer accomplishes this through personal efforts, and with minimal supervision of daily personal workload balancing.

The Creative Developer is also responsible for performing Quality Control procedures as related to the content they create.

Successful candidates for this role exhibit:
-Strong understanding of traditional animation principles
- Superior artistic skills in illustration, Flash animation and character design
-Strong storytelling skills
-Ability to create & adapt to a breadth of styles
-Ability to prioritize and handle multiple projects in order to meet tight deadlines

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Fantabulous illustrator Meg Hunt just released a pack of three limited-edition mini-notebooks. They're perfect for sketching or note jotting. And they feature awesome, fearsome dinosaurs.





via Drawn!

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Associate Creative Director
Spring Design Partners, New York City

Spring Design Partners, Inc. is a top tier brand/package design agency in NYC. We are seeking an Associate Creative Director who can join in leading our design team and work on blue chip clients.

Job description/requirements:

- Minimum 7 years experience; a creative, STRATEGIC thinker and initiator of big ideas - primarily in the brand ID/packaging discipline but also vested in other creative sectors/cultures.
- Work closely with and will be reporting to Executive Creative Director.
- A true talent with hands-on design skills and industry software skills: AI, PS, Indesign, to be specific.
- Solid knowledge of broad printing methods, general knowledge of structural/3D design and implementation.
- A proven leader who is able to partner with strategy, account and production teams to bring cross functional expertise to all projects
- A capable presenter who articulates design, marketing, business rationale clearly and confidently, both internally and to our client partners.
- Able to direct and work EFFICIENTLY with outside vendors and freelancers.
- Resourceful, can adapt and embrace project change in direction, overall problem solver.
A thought leader and a total team player is essential to this position.

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P22 and the International House of Fonts proudly announce Festiva—the latest font designed by Terry Wudenbachs for the IHOF Collection.

P22 Festiva is based on lettering found on a 1960s kitchen appliance catalog. It evokes 1960s TV and pop culture while still having a contemporary feel. The fun exuberant flavor of this face is perfect for parties and celebrations. The letters dance across the baseline and the lower case wants to be an upper case but just can't quite make it. P22 Festiva Regular includes a full unicode European Character set (Western, CE, Turkish, Romanian etc).

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I try very hard not buy wine because I like the label. But I couldn't pass up a tiny bottle of St. Germain liquor this weekend. It was just too pretty. I felt a lot better when Bryn admitted that she'd bought a bottle on Friday. I can't wait to taste it!

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