a great post about loving kerning by dianna weissman on font bureau's type 101 where she shares her intimate relationship with the practice of kerning as well as the music she likes to kern to.
i want to open up desidioms to some of the new interests i have gathered in the last year... which includes sewing, crafting and the like.
like these here:
and since we're talking about 2010, i'd like to add some links to things i must have:
from Purgatory Pie Press
and this card i found through Poppytalk:
and a cool new site to stalk for the year: Goodness Greatness
2010 looks like it's going to be fun.
embarking on a new project after a year and a half of teaching university level visual communications classes. a year of that was full-time, and my required service commitment that was added to the three classes per semester, was being faculty advisor to the student design club (which was way better than the other dept service commitments which was the faculty classes/schedule/degree advising they had to do for 300+ students each semester).
returning from my digression - as advisor to the club and as a professor who was still working (30 hours per week) in the field - i got a lot of students coming to see me for advise, how-to's, what's the real world like's, that (at least they said) they felt were unable to ask the other faculty.
i declined teaching again for this year. although having the two jobs was great in getting some debts paid, the amount of dedication i tend to put into things times 3 was just much more draining than i'd have admitted before. it was insanely rewarding - but with the full-time design job, i can advance in my career. with the full-time teaching job, i couldn't advance without getting my masters.
so no more teaching. at least physically. i do want to be a mentor and a resource, because i found that incredibly fulfilling. so i started a project called good for grasshopper. check it out.
i've always hated pepsi. i'm a coca-cola classic girl. same goes for opting for water if they have 7up instead of sprite. i can't help it - they both just taste like watered down yuckiness. and stephen heller points out, that the new logo looks surprisingly like another logo - which, of course, i like better.
nice idea. a place where people work together, but kind of don't.
public school in austin, texas is set up this way - and from what i'm seeing - the little commune (it is austin, so i'm assuming peace, love and bbq) produces some really nice work.
grain edit posted a post about another poster (person) who posted about the travel posters (wall art) of daphne padden, a british illustrator and designer. in the 50's and 60's, padden created posters for Royal Blue Coach Services (a UK bus company) which make up the majority of the collection shown. the rest of padden's posters are just as whimsical.
and you can see the collection here.
we pick paper. we pick the best (or at least advise the best) number of pages, where to print, inks, varnishes, and sometimes say - "hey, you know, you should just do this online."
and considering that we have that much control over even just one little brochure - some say, designers have more influence in environmental impact than your average politician.
if you're one of those that doesn't believe it (still fuming over the whole bush vs kerry, bush vs gore, bush vs common sense debaucle?)
design can change will not only give you a better outlook or some environmental optimism - it will give you plenty of clues as how to use your design powers for the good of the earth.
you can sign the pledge, find resources and refer your clients to this site if they want green design that you just can't give to them. it might not be instant change, but it's a very well kerned step in the green direction.
here's a nice site dedicated to, wait for it...
wait for it...
...logos.
it's a blog called logo design love. the name pretty much speaks for itself.
i wonder if they have a sister site, like "logo design hate". because though design love can be pretty inspirational, i'm sure "design hate" could make you feel a lot better about yourself as a designer on those days you feel your creative is a little "not so fresh".
