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Highest Honors: 2016 Top Design Schools
GDUSA’s educated, informed, but admittedly subjective selection of our favorite graphic design schools across the US.
Responsible Design
Rolland Enterprises, Inc. graciously sponsors this spotlight on sustainable and responsible design.
Wink
Wink is a design firm that crafts brands with wit that inspire and impact commerce and culture.
Oxide Design Co.
We design to solve problems, realize meaningful change, help people, and make sense of the world.
Thinkso Creative
Sustainability is integral to our strategic approach.
Design Nut, LLC
Social responsibility is a big part of the practice, particularly in how it relates to children and education.
Sandra Wolfe Wood | Designing Change
How can design contribute to the social good?
Gill Fishman Associates
We feel that in our role as designers/communicators our challenge is to make that positive impact felt more effectively.
PLDG
PLDG is an award-winning design firm located in the historic Northeast Minneapolis Arts District.
Graphic Granola
Graphic Granola is a print + web design firm committed to design for the common good.
Susan Newman Design, Inc. | Frogs are Green, Inc.
Susan Newman Design, Inc., is a well-established branding, graphic and web design firm.
Kollar Design | EcoCreative®
Kollar Design focuses on serving clients in the green building and energy efficiency markets.
Highest Honors: 2015 Top Design Schools
Top design schools from across the United States.
San Francisco is Best City For Graphic Designers
What are the best cities for graphic designers to work in the United States?
The Importance of Branding Your Own Agency
Let’s see if we can convince ourselves to make a sustained internal marketing effort…
The Color-Flavor Connection
How color affects the brain when eating foods…
Tooling Around: Beautiful Type Crafted Out of Tools
Tooling Around is an ongoing series by typographic illustrator Joseph Alessio…
Top Designers Advice to Design Grads: Work Really Hard!
Our January/February 2015 edition features the annual People To Watch (as in professional designers) and Students to Watch selections. It is an incredibly subjective process in a field loaded with talent and with newsmakers, but we proudly stand by them. The intersection of the two special reports was a question we posed to the professionals: […]
Salary Negotiation Strategies for 2015
As you make resolutions, don’t forget about your career…
Marsala is Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2015
Marsala – Color of the Year…
Green Design 2014
Sponsored By Rolland Sustainability continues to exert a powerful impact in design decisions. In our June 2014 Print Design survey, roughly eight-in-ten GDUSA readers specify eco-friendly papers sometimes, and more than a nine-in-ten say that sustainability is a factor in their design assignments and solutions. At one time, designers identified “green” with the specific attributes […]
28th Annual Stock Visual Survey
Our 28th Annual Reader Survey, with notes about frequency, mobile and crowdsourcing, shows a market becoming more hungry and sophisticated.
Quotables: Michelangelo on Mastering the Craft
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. -Michelangelo We know how hard you work and wish everyone a relaxing holiday!
Designers Go Big with Kromekote High-Impact Foils
Guest Post by CTI Paper USA Kromekote, one of America’s truly venerable paper brands, adds highly reflective holographic foils to the collection of super-premium cast-coated printing papers. A swatchbook and print demonstration featuring a new take on the iconic Kromekote apple image is now available from CTI Paper USA. “High-value, high impact print projects are […]
With A Rifle in One Arm and a Sketchpad in the Other: Celebrating Combat Artists
In October 1970, a group of five marines were assigned to the Combat Information Bureau…
Are You Wasting Money on Design?
Design as an investment…
Quotables: Oscar de la Renta on the Creativity
It never stops…
Serving Up Menu Design Ideas
If you design menus, how do you create a piece that can entice patrons and help your client’s sales?
5 Logos We Love
Love of logos…
Quotables: Think Design is Easy?
Design is easy.
8 Inspirational Quotes by Famous Artists
8 Inspirational Quotes by Famous Artists
5 of the Toughest Interview Questions: Are You Prepared?
We have all been there. The sweaty palms, pounding heartbeat and dry mouth that come with anticipating a job interview. You hope you’ll get easy questions — sometimes I have — and you pray you don’t get the hard ones — sometimes I have. The Creative Group suggest that you hope for the best but […]
Pioneering Women of Graphic Design
Guest Post by John Clifford Today, women make up around half of the graphic design profession. This wasn’t always the case. I wrote Graphic Icons: Visionaries who Shaped Modern Graphic Design to highlight the pioneers of the field, from El Lissitzky to Stefan Sagmeister. It surprised me that so many of the historic designers I considered […]
Google Business View Gets Down to Business
Google is innovating again, this time by introducing a new way for businesses of all shapes and sizes to raise their profile and connect with consumers on the web. Called Google Business View, the technology brings a business to life with a high quality, 360 degree, interactive virtual tour that lets consumers experience and explore […]
Second Half of 2014 Brings Greater Creative Job Opportunities
Twelve percent of advertising and marketing executives surveyed by The Creative Group said they will expand their creative teams in the second half of 2014. Nearly three-quarters (73%) said their organizations plan to maintain current staff levels and 12% said they project hiring freezes, down 10 points from six months ago. Following are the top five […]
Pantone’s Top 10 Colors for Fall 2014
For more than 20 years, Pantone has surveyed the designers of New York Fashion Week and beyond to bring you the season’s most important color trends. The Pantone Fashion Color Report previews the most prominent hues for Fall 2014, including the 10 most directional colors which appear here above. Learn more about this year’s fashion […]
George Tscherny Makes a Plea To "Humanize Technology"
In a recent enewsletter GDUSA publisher Gordon Kaye suggested that graphic design trends in diverse areas such as print design, logo design and use of color had become too influenced by digital technology and that designers may begin to embrace more traditional and artisanal approaches. He also noted, in part, that “our 51st Anniversary Print […]
Top 10 Favorite Colors for Print Design
For the 51st year GDUSA has conducted a reader survey about print design. As part of the survey we asked readers, “What are your favorite colors for use in print design?” Here are their Top 10 Favorite Colors: You can download the entire Print Survey here.
The 10 Commandments of Color Theory
The 10 Commandments of Color Theory is a comprehensive resource for all those who find choosing color themes a task too baffling and intricate. From the psychological impact of colors to the various different color schemes and combinations, this infographic holistically sums up the essentials of color selection and the anatomy of the color wheel all in one, […]