April 2012
35 posts
alexej:
with the knife in my back and the stars in my eyes
Watchourrisd:
Print’s not dead, as long as designers keep finding clever ways to reinvent it. Sifting through 1600 entries from 33 countries, the Type Directors Club selected four projects from RISD as 2011 Communication Design Winners. The winning entries by alumni faculty Benjamin Shaykin MFA 11 GD and Lindsay Kinkade MFA 10 GD, alum Namoo Kim MFA 09 GD and the entire Graphic Design MFA Class of...
Problems with the #NewAesthetic
prostheticknowledge:
A lot of talk has become of this topic amongst the tech and art worlds, and I have to confess it has been interesting to see the reaction on the topic. Something about “The New Aesthetic” ideas and discussions, for me, have been on my mind for a little while, and thought I would put them down. I’m certainly no academic and perfectly happy to be corrected if wrong (or to be...
THE MADE SHOP: On columns in InDesign →
design-think:
Once you have set up your grid in InDesign, there are two choices for setting columns of text using the grid as a guide: manually with text running across multiple text frames (option A) and automatically with the ‘number of columns’ tool (option B). I suppose there’s no…
Oh Yeah Facts: 10 things you (probably) didn't... →
fuckyeahoddities:
1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go — the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch 2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated 3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One…
