Graphic Design

Visual Rebellion in Design

Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Gestalten, Twopoints, Video, Aesthetic Rampages, Art Book, Graphic Design, Design, Lupi Asensio, Pretty Ugly, Slideexpand, Martin Lorenz, Ugly Art, Arts News

As Clement Greenburg so astutely put it, "All profoundly original art looks ugly at first." Like Picasso's The Young Ladies of Avignon, great works of...

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A Look Inside The Cutthroat World Of Movie Poster Graphic Design

HuffingtonPost.com | Joe Satran | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Hollywood Graphic Design, Ignition Print Movie Posters, Video, Dark Shadows Movie Posters, How Movie Poster Graphic Design Works, Dark Knight Movie Posters, Graphic Design, Movie Poster Graphic Design, Marketing, Movie Marketing, Ignition Print, Blt Communications, Entertainment News

When the marketing executives at Warner Brothers Pictures asked Ignition Print to pitch ideas for movie posters to promote Tim Burton's remake of "Dar...

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Teen Mags And Drugs: 11 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design

Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Mad Men, Ad Art, Psychedelia, Art, Advertising, Graphic Design, Ideas That Changed Graphic Design, Typography, Slideexpand, Culture News

On bus stops, in magazines, and on TV: they're color schemes and shapes and ideas that we're exposed to every day. We take them for granted, these ima...

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New Video Game-Themed High School Program May Be A Hard Sell

Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Computer Programming, Stem, Florida Schools, Graphic Design, Video Game-Themed School, Miami Dade, Career and Technical Education, Video, Magnet Schools, Cte, Technology Education, Science Technology Engineering Math Education, STEM Education, Video Games in School, Video Games, Miami Dade County Schools, Education News

Never mind video games getting in the way of homework or learning time. At one Florida school, video games are homework. A new magnet program at M...

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Rejected Covers: See How 'The Mirage' Might Have Looked

Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Book News, Book Cover Design, Book Design, The Mirage, Oliver Munday, The Mirage Book, Graphic Design, Book Cover, Rejected Covers, Cover Design, Video, Books News

This is part of a new series on rejected book cover designs, in which we invite cover artists to reveal some of the rejected ideas and inspirations be...

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Will This Be Apple's Logo In 30 Years?

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Windows, Ibm, Mozilla Firefox, Lg, Microsoft, Graphic Design, Logos, Volkswagen, Infographic, Nokia, Xerox, Video, Apple, Starbucks, Ivan Raszl, Business News

"Nothing wrong with a good logo," someone probably once said. It'd be hard to prove that hypothetical person wrong, especially when five-year-olds app...

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Where e-Books Fall Short, Print Delivers

Joseph Sutton | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Literature, Publishing, Book Publishing, Publishing Industry, The Donnybrook Writing Academy, Books, Graphic Design, Ebook, Media, Technology, Ebooks, Donnybrook, Denver News

Publishers are going back to the drawing board to see where they can innovate with printed books to keep readers interested.

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WATCH: Adorable 5-Year-Old's Take On Brand Logos

The Huffington Post | Ileana Llorens | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Faith Ladd, Video, Brand Logos, Brand Impressions, Cute Kids Video, Graphic Design, Adam Ladd, Girl Identifies Brand Logos, Business Logos, Fresh Impressions on Brandmarks, The-Playroom, Parents News

Faith Ladd is drawn to the BP logo mostly because it's bright, colorful and resembles a flower. So when the spirited 5-year-old and her father were...

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WATCH: Digital Designers Get Their Hands Dirty

Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Screenprinting, Chicago People, Video, Chicago Art, Analogue Art, Graphic Design, The Post Family Digital Art, Digital Design, Chicago Culture, Letterpress, The Post Family, Obama Design, Chicago News

In 2007, a group of Chicago designers who loved making things with their hands came together -- and started a family. The Post Family is an art co...

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Words As Art

Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Word as Image, Ji Lee, Language as Art, Video, Cool Video, Graphic Design, Arts News

Here at HuffPost Arts, we love three things the most: images, words and fun! That is why we are giddy over this video of words as images by Ji Lee...

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PHOTOS: If Logos Were Honest: Redux

Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Nokia, Consumerism, Video, Playboy, Harley-Davidson, Olympics, Advertising, Swedish Designers, Graphic Design, Starbucks, Honest-Logos, 7/11, Myspace, Sweden, Viktor-Hertz, Arts News

By now you should be familiar with Swedish graphic designer Viktor Hertz and his hilarious series of "Honest Logos." Hertz takes familiar brands an...

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Rock the Vote for Irish EU Logo

John Lee | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Logo, European Union, Ireland, Irish, Eu, Irish Design, Graphic Design, Video, World News

Logos were digital before there was digital--quick hits, with immediate impact and lots of message delivered in a tight, clean package. A powerful v...

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PHOTOS: Brand's True Colors?

Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Imdb, Windows, Swedish Graphic Design, Graphic Design, Honest Logos, Facebook, Graphic Designer, Camel Cigarettes, Viktor Hertz, Budweiser, Apple, Mtv, Swedish Designers, McDonald's, Youtube, Absolut Vodka, Diabetes, Arts News

With these 'honest logos' Swedish graphic designer Viktor Hertz shows he feels your consumerist pain. In an attempt to clear the smoke and mirrors out...

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PHOTOS: Street Art Abstraction At Known Gallery

Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Known Galler, Video, Art in the Streets, San Francisco Chronicle, Street Art, Graphic Design, Graffiti, New York Times, Eric Haze, Los Angeles, Greg Lamarche, Arts News

Known Gallery in Los Angeles has been on a roll these past couple years. With its artist base and clientele, it has become an epicenter of graffiti cr...

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New Book Tracks Evolution Of Menu Graphic Design

Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Culinary Art, Culinary History, Taschen, Graphic Design, Art Food, Menu Design, Design, John Mariani, American Art History, Menu Design in America, Restaurant Art, Food Art, Book Release, Menu, Restaurant History, Design Books, Steven Heller, Food History, Arts News

Up until the 1800s, neither restaurants nor menus were encountered everyday, but rather were saved for special occasions. Part advertisement and part ...

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A New Spin On '80s Design

Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Lucie Thomas, Video, 80's Design, Nancy France, France, Paper Sculpture, Graphic Design, Thibault Zimmermann, Back to Basics, Zim & Zou, Arts News

With smart phones, tablets and every other essential gadget, it would seem that we're on track to outpace The Jetsons and other futuristic visions fro...

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'Try Helvetica' Gives Brazil A Font Makeover

Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Try Helvetica, Fonts, Graphic Design, Arts, Design, Helvetica, Comics Sans, Felipe Nuno, Tumblr, Brazil, Arts News

Helvetica changes everything. Or, at least that's the theory behind Brazilian design factory NOONO's fantastically picturesque Tumblr 'Try Helvetica.'...

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Graffiti Parks May Be the Answer

John M. Eger | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Creativity, Murals, Museums, Graphic Design, Street Art, Community, Graffiti-Art, Art Galleries, Arts News

The graffiti problem isn't unique to LA. Most cities see this as a growing epidemic. But "artistic expression" is real, and in what is fast becoming a "creative and innovation economy" could be a good thing for cities across America.

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Art Show Benefits Human Rights In Iran

Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Photography, Iran Human Rights, Art, Human Rights, Middle East, Graphic Design, Arts, Iran, Good News, Art Exhibitions, Foreign Policy, Seyhoun Gallery, Arts News

The campaign for human rights in Iran has gone visual with a new show in Los Angeles which explores the lives of marginalized Iranians. The show is pr...

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How The U.S. Debt Literally Stacks Up (GRAPHIC)

Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, 1993, Oto Godfrey, National Debt, Debt Visualized, Space, Graphic Design, US Debt, Debt Visualizations, Debt Graphics, State of the Union, Business News

In former President Bill Clinton's first-ever State of the Union address, he announced that if America's debt were stacked in thousand dollar bills, i...

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Artist Gives Iconic City Streets A Narrow Makeover

Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Photography, Art, Urban Development, David Yoon, Los Angeles, Graphic Design, Travel News

Santa Monica graphic designer David Yoon is a man with vision. The kind of vision that takes the bustling, clunky streets of LA and turns them into in...

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Poetry: Lorem Ipsum

Hannah Stephenson | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Embroidery, Web Design, Lorem Ipsum, Cicero, Graphic Design, Arts News

image courtesy of Glenn Fischer Lorem Ipsum To see design more clearly, sprinkle tormented gibberish across the page, flouring a counter top so...

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Career Options for Creatives (Finding a Job)

Karen Atkinson | Posted 07.27.2011

Many artists hold down a number of jobs in their life. The key is to find a job that allows you to keep making your work and that is satisfying or at least challenging.

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Meet The Graphics Guru Who Is Revolutionizing The Way We See Data

The Information Sage | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Philosophy, Jack Abramoff, Graphic Design, Obama Administration, Earl Devaney, Graphics Guru, War and Peace, Tolstoy, Edward Tufte, Books News

One day in the spring of 2009, Edward Tufte, the statistician and graphic design theorist, took the train from his home in Cheshire, Connecticut, to W...

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PLAN ForYourArt: May 12-18

Bettina Korek | Posted 07.11.2011

Getting Upper charges twenty-six designers with re-imagining a letter from the alphabet, using the illegibility and deconstructive nature of graffiti as their starting point.

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