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CULTURE by Stefan Sagmeister

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:14:59 -0400

The BMW Group is celebrating 40 years of cultural commitment and is currently supporting more than 100 projects throughout the world. To mark this occasion, the internationally celebrated New York-based graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister has created the design of the publication CULTURE, a book describing the BMW Group’s international cultural partnerships.

Irina Werning

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:12:55 -0500

Irina Werning

Advice for getting started Ten common mistakes in résumés and cover letters

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:56:30 -0500

Advice for getting started Ten common mistakes in résumés and cover letters

25 Awesome Mugs

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:49:01 -0500

25 Awesome Mugs

15 Tips For Crafting the Most Impressive Twitter Bio

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:45:31 -0500

15 Tips For Crafting the Most Impressive Twitter Bio:

There’s an art to stuffing the maximum amount of coolness and success into 140 characters or less, and I’m basically the Da Vinci Code for how to do that. Here are 15 of my proven strat tips on how to really jack your follower count by making your Twitter bio as effective as possible at tricking people into thinking you’re important.

Letters Lost and Found

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:37:00 -0500

Letters Lost and Found:

When type designer Scott-Martin Kosofsky set out to create a new digital typeface of Hebrew characters, he and type legend Matthew Carter reached far back into history. The result is Le Bé, and it’s based on one of the first Hebrew movable types, a famously beautiful typeface—Kosofsky calls it exuberant and confident—that first appeared in 1569 in the Plantin Polyglot Bible. Its newly digitized version, still in development, will debut in The Selected Poems of Yehuda Halevi, an original e-book to be published tomorrow by Nextbook Press with translations and commentary by Hillel Halkin. Tablet Magazine visited Kosofsky’s workshop in Lexington, Mass., to see how he adapted a 16th-century calligraphic type for the digital age. In this audio slideshow, Kosofsky shows off his work and explains what drew him to the font, the particular challenges the Hebrew alphabet poses to typographers, and why he sees Le Bé as Hebrew’s equivalent to the elegant and ubiquitous Garamond.

15 Design Tips

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:35:13 -0500

15 Design Tips:

There is no shortage of companies that follow popular design trends to appeal to a mass market. Much more rare is the breed of company that actually sets design trends. Today we’ll examine the techniques of a company that occupies the top of the design food chain: Apple.

Maze Made From Salt

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:10:23 -0500

Maze Made From Salt:

Motoi Yamamoto has to be the most patient man in the world. A Japanese artist, Yamamoto uses salt to create monumental floor paintings, each so absurdly detailed, it makes A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte look like child’s play. He calls them, fittingly, his Labyrinths.

Amazing Concept Text Illusion

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:00:34 -0500

Amazing Concept Text Illusion:

Here is a series of images that when viewed from the right position will clearly show the letters as if there were printed in the air. Truly amazing. This texting system is developed for Eureka Tower Carpark. No doubt this project has won several design awards.

7 Steps to Creativity

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:34:16 -0500

7 Steps to Creativity:

As a writer, having ideas is one of the most important parts of your craft. But often it seems like one of the most difficult and challenging parts of the whole process.

How do you keep ideas flowing? How do you create a wealth of ideas to choose from? How do you make sure you get to the one killer idea that will make your advert, novel, article or blog post really stand out from the rest?

Some people like to wait for inspiration to strike. Most professional writers, however, don’t have that luxury. You need ideas every working day, not just every now and then.

Luckily, there is a formula for producing ideas on a consistent basis. Of course, like all formulas, it has its limits. You can’t constrain creativity, and to only ever use one method for coming up with ideas would be utter madness.

A Beautiful Revolution

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:37:15 -0500

A Beautiful Revolution:

Student Membership Drive

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:30:50 -0500

Student Membership Drive:

AIGA Student Membership Sale:
February 1 – 21, 2011.

Student Membership Drive/Sale will occur February 1-21.
Online only! Paper applications will not be accepted during this drive.
Full-time students will be able to join and renew online for just $50.
Current AIGA student members whose memberships are up for renewal between January 31 and May 31 are included.
No minimum number of students is required.

Also, DISH Conference in Nashville is coming up again, February 25-26th.

More information about DISH will be posted soon, but for now here’s a link giving some detail about it:
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/event-detail?eid=54056542

Look after your spines

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:28:01 -0500

Look after your spines:

In design terms, it’s probably the most neglected area of a book’s cover, but new website Fixabook claims to offer a few pointers on how to get your spine in shape, amidst critique dedicated to creating eye-catching jackets…

Visiting the High Line

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:17:39 -0500

Visiting the High Line:

New Yorkers and design fans alike: After years of wrangling, delays, and uncertainties, the High Line, an astonishing urban park built upon the remnants of an abandoned stretch of elevated railway, is opening tomorrow. Fast Company was at the preview, and here, we bring you the first images of the completed park.

Pros give tips to improve your job interview skills

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:08:38 -0500

Pros give tips to improve your job interview skills:

The unemployment rate fell 0.4 percentage points to 9.4 percent in December 2010, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

With nearly 10 percent of the population in need of work, applicants will need to stand out in order to be noticed. There are still an estimated five job seekers for each available position.

One way to get a recruiter to take notice is to give a killer interview.

The Conversation: Painter Takes Art to iPad

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:03:45 -0500

The Conversation: Painter Takes Art to iPad:

At a minimum most painters need brushes, paint and a canvas to create their works, but for Pixar animator Don Shank, and others in the world of iPad art, all it takes are fingers and a screen.

The Accidental Hipster

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:59:16 -0500

The Accidental Hipster

A Collection of Vintage Cheese Labels

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:56:02 -0500

A Collection of Vintage Cheese Labels:

Our photo essay originates in England, circa 1957. It was there and then that a colorful package of cheese inspired one person (unknown) to start a collection of dairy labels, neatly organized in a scrapbook. His or her now-vintage collection — found orphaned on eBay — is a virtual journal of cheese branding in the mid-20th century.

Reproduced here, these graphic labels look just as the originals would have if you could step back in time, back to a day when bright, hand-rendered package art was a novelty and innocence wasn’t, and long before a blitz of color-soaked multimedia outlets emerged all around us. Once upon this time, artists illustrated a label to tell a story, evoke a feeling, with a single bright image. For many people such labels were the only artwork they saw from week to week.

Intellectual Property for Creative Professionals

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:08:00 -0500

Intellectual Property for Creative Professionals:

Can you use that photo your client sent you from Flickr? Who has ownership of work you do for a client? How can you protect your work and yourself? Dealing with legal issues in design can be complex and intimidating. Matt Jannerbo, an attorney with Miller & Martin, will present an overview of intellectual property, trademarks and copyrights for creative professionals.

Have a specific question you’d like Matt to answer? Submit it now on our Facebook page or Tweet us!
Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Time: 6:00 Social/Networking
6:30–7:30pm, Presentation. Q&A to follow.
Location: green|spaces
63 E Main Street
Chattanooga, TN 37408
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Cost:
$5 students
*Join or renew at the event (or bring a copy of your registration dated after Jan 1) and get in free!

Register online now! http://designatwork.eventbrite.com/

Matt Jannerbo is an attorney in Miller & Martin’s corporate department. His practice is focused on mergers and acquisitions, securities and general business representation. He is on the Board of Directors for the Chattanooga Technology Council, as well as the boards for the Creative Discovery Museum, Chattanooga Public Market and Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce of Georgia

Mr. Jannerbo’s practice involves the general representation of businesses with respect to general business and tax matters. He also negotiates software licensing and technology agreements for both technology companies and end users.

Think Wrong

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:03:47 -0500

Think Wrong:

Wouldn’t it be fantastic to see the world as a place where Euros and cents cascade down on people from a “money fountain”? In the heart of the on-the-go financial center “Offenfurt”, the “Ideas Bank” is open for business. The only method of payment this community bank accepts is innovation, creativity and investment in social dividends. In this particular bank the rational language of financiers would meet the emotional and sensual vocabulary of creative minds, gradually mutating and developing new synergies. At night everyone would succumb to the feverish electrosounds of “Tropical L”, dancing wildly until the sun rose over “Hafenbach“ in the club “Robert Johnson”. And there would be an imaginary “wishescometrueluckycharmmoneymachine” hovering over everything. Think wrong!