Discover the unknown stories behind everyday icons
ARTICLE SUMMERY: “DISCOVER THE UNKNOWN STORIES BEHIND EVERYDAY ICONS” is a look back...
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Category: Illustration
Visualizing Every Pantone Color of the Year
ARTICLE SUMMERY: As printers and graphic designers, we love color, we love the ability to recreate...
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Pantone’s 2020 color of the year is the new black
It’s the color of blue jeans, blueberries, and the sky at dusk. Pantone’s Color of the Year 2020...
Read MoreHave a Creepy Little Christmas with These Unsettling Victorian Cards
Anthropomorphic cats, murderous frogs, and insects dancing by the moonlight aren’t exactly part of our Christmas card tradition today.
Read MoreNew York’s Subway Map Like You’ve Never Seen It Before
The New York Subway Map is a perfect example of graphic design making peoples life easier. The last printshop I worked at printed them on a monthly basis. When I first started checking them for errors I could not help thinking...
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From idea to typeface: How are fonts designed?
ARTICLE SUMMERY: There is a plethora of type faces at a designers disposal, but how many of us...
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Thousands of medieval manuscripts now online in full color through digitization project
ARTICLE SUMMERY: There is something awe inspiring about the medieval illustrations and the graphic...
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Getty Publications Virtual Library
The Getty Museum has developed a program to share more than three hundred books in its Virtual...
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Music of the Squares: David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.” So wrote the Victorian art critic...
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WE ASKED 100 PEOPLE TO DRAW FAMOUS LOGOS FROM MEMORY. HERE IS WHAT THEY DREW.
ARTICLE SUMMERY: Every designer knows the most recognizable item for any company, whether it be in...
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New show celebrates the revolutionary graphic design of the 1960s
When you think of the 1960s, you think music and fashion. But the graphic design of the time was...
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50 essential books every graphic designer should read
For all the power and versatility that digital devices provide, there’s really nothing like...
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