One of our very own students' package design is featured at The Dieline, "the leading package design website."

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Great job, Asli! It really is a very beautiful piece.

Via ShareSomeCandy

This is really a great resource for finding out about new (and old) design books, and if they are worth the usually high price tag they carry.

The Designer's Review of Books.

50 pedestrian/passenger symbols are available free online, thanks to AIGA.

Check out this video.

I just read this article in the current issue of HOW Magazine about the new Graphic Designer, the "Culture Creator." I can relate so much! Although I stand by my opinion that Graphic Design is not art, I think Graphic Designers can be artists and probably should be, as the article's author Matt Mattus says; "the best designers are first and foremost artists. Everything else can be learned. Honest design requires talents that cannot be learned, only improved upon. Those gifts are passion, curiosity and drive."
Read the article here.

Design Sponge is pairing up with the New York Public Library, and invited five Brooklyn artists to get inspired by the library's collection. They have produced a series of videos documenting this process.
Here is the first.

A "polarbearoid" a day by Monica Clapcott.

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...that makes designers say "I wish I would've come up with that!!!"
Beautiful, practical, useful. The "Seeing Eye Calendar" is both a calendar and an eye chart. Yes, it works both ways.
Want your own? Get it here.

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This is definitely eye catching
Book Covers Anonymous is a blog about, well... book covers! It's very interesting and a great source of inspiration. Enjoy!

I think not. Graphic design has to function, serve a purpose, communicate a message to a specific audience. Art doesn't have to, necessarily.

Vote here.

this is just too cute!

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The main article looks odd on the right side
Liberal pranksters distributed a spoof edition of the New York Times this morning, with utopian headlines and articles.
After our newspaper project in Type 2, we could spoof the NYT too!
I think the pranksters got their point sizes and typefaces wrong, but its similar enough to evoke the original and avoid total plagiarism.

Read more about it here.

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"The best in communications design from 2007"
Dec 11, 2008 to Feb 20, 2009
Details here.