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Real Life Impact of Design: Design with a big “D”

By Dr. Sean Carton, Chief Creative Officer and Professor of the Practice at the University of Baltimore When thinking about how deisgn impacts “real life,”… Read More

The Role of UI: Why Design Matters

By Dr. Sean Carton, Chief Creative Officer and Professor of the Practice at the University of Baltimore “Design” is one of those words that we… Read More

Olympic Pictograms Through The Ages.

From the New York Times, and the always worthwhile Steven Heller, a short video retrospective of Olympic pictograms since 1936. I disagree with his… Read More

Tunnel Typography.

I found a link this afternoon over lunch detailing the murky history of typography in the Toronto subway system, which was fascinating reading for… Read More

Saturn Eclipsed

Most days, I drive to work in an eleven-year-old Saturn. It’s a little blue coupe with a 4-cylinder engine and a manual transmission. It has… Read More

Fashion Meet Economy

I love fashion design. And of course, it’s kind of hard to buy gorgeous designer pieces in a tough economy. OK so most of the… Read More

Word of the Day: Kulibin

The Russians have a word for people who invent whimsical things that may or not have any practical value: “Kulibins.” The word comes from the… Read More

Visualizing Statistics: American Self Portrait

Wow. Chris Jordan’s prints speak for themselves. What a way to make tangible the enormous numbers we all take for granted. Here’s a great… Read More

BBC Redesign

Even if you are on the far end of regularity when it comes to reading news on the internet, you probably end… Read More

Politics, Marketing, and a Spike in Typographic Awareness

With the most powerful position in the free world coming available, and the heated contest currently well underway between McCain, Hillary, and Obama, an… Read More