Designers now embrace the notion of responsibility writ large, designing for good and for positive social change.
Tag: design
Greteman Group
Our agency manifesto calls us to be pathfinders that connect and spur people to action.
Haberman
Haberman is a creative engagement agency with a clearly defined mission: to tell the stories of pioneers who are making a difference in the world.
Lisa Cain Design
Lisa Cain Design specializes in print and interactive media for a variety of healthcare, wellness, scientific and research organizations.
Extra Credit Projects
Extra Credit Projects (ECP) operates by a simple philosophy: give a little extra.
Eisenberg and Associates
Eisenberg And Associates believes that socially positive work happens within corporations as well as non-profit organizations.
Dawn Keene, Studio Change, Inc.
Studio Change is a sustainable design consultancy that inspires small and forward-thinking companies to make sustainability a framework for building their businesses.
jLinton Design
jLinton design (jLd) was established by Jennifer Linton in 2013 after almost two decades of in-house art direction and publication design in the healthcare sector.
Howell Creative Group
The Howell Creative Group team works with clients across industries to produce innovative concepts.
Millward and Millward LLC
Millward and Millward is honored to have as talented firms from the commercial building industry as clients.
Design as Service, Messiah College
Design as Service brings together talented design students, under professional art direction, with the design needs of non-profit organizations.
Transitioning from Flash to HTML5: Separating Fact From Fiction
Flash is near its end. This free eBook from Monotype will help you take advantage of the new industry standard HTML5 in your workflow, branding and user experience.
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 2015
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?