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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?
Digital Print Cover Contest Winners
This summer, to give designers an opportunity to become better acquainted with digital printing technology — as well as digital papers that can enhance design projects and solutions — GDUSA conducted a special “Digital Print Cover Competition.” Neenah was a natural sponsor given its rich variety of paper colors and textures for digital print applications. […]
The Risks of a Counteroffer: Should You Stay or Should You Go?
Should you stay or… ?
Quotables: T.S. Eliot on Creativity
“Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity” -T.S. Eliot
Quotables: Stephen King on Fear
The scariest moment…
5 Logos We Love
Love of logos…
Quotables: Think Design is Easy?
Design is easy.
5 Fresh Ways to Find Design Inspiration
A little extra shot of design inspiration wouldn’t hurt.
8 Inspirational Quotes by Famous Artists
8 Inspirational Quotes by Famous Artists
Quotables: Dali on Perfection
Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.
Quotables: Happy Little Accidents
We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.
Word Play with Debbie Millman
Designer, artist, author and Design Matters radio show host Debbie Millman is the newest addition to the esteemed list of designers for The Luxe Project by MOO.
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 […]
Boat Magazine Travels to the Heart of the City
Guest Blog Post by Image Source Interview by John O’Reilly with Boat Magazine Editor Erin Spens Design Week called Boat magazine “One of the most exciting new titles we’ve seen in a while. A brilliant concept and equally brilliant execution.” Creative Review couldn’t resist a seaworthy metaphor in its praise, “Still moving, Boat Magazine continues to be one […]
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 […]
Free ‘Design a Cover’ Contest Promotes Digital Print
Digital printing is the fastest growing segment of the print world and vital to the future of graphic communications. The latest GDUSA reader survey reveals that three in four designers have bought or specified digital printing in the past year, but our readers tell us that, the world being what it is, they have not […]
Health and Wellness Design in the Spotlight
We are always trying to identify and spotlight new areas of growth and opportunity for creative professionals, an especially vital endeavor in these pinched times. We believe we have fallen upon an absolute natural extension of our awards programs — a “no-brainer” if you will — the American Health + Wellness Design Awards™. The reason (almost) goes […]
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.
Quotables: Ansel Adams on Photography
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it” -Ansel Adams
Massimo Vignelli (1931-2014)
Photo: Asheind “Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.” That quote by Massimo Vignelli elegantly summed up his philosophy of design — and, by the way, what did he do that was not elegantly done? Mr. Vignelli died yesterday at the age of 83 after a long illness. Born in Milan […]
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, […]
My Letter to Massimo Vignelli
Massimo Vignelli, considered by many as one of the world’s great designers, is very ill and will be spending his last days at home. His son Luca would like all those who were influenced or inspired by him to write him a letter. Here is my letter to Massimo that I will be sure to mail to […]
5 Mother’s Day Gifts Your Mom Might Actually Use
The Minimergency Kit for Moms contains an amazing assortment of 17 personal care items to prevent minor melt-downs. The kit contains a variety of mommy must-haves, including hand-sanitizing towelettes and caffeine gum. Included is a handful of kid-friendly items like a miniature crayon set, fun adhesive bandages, and the smallest deck of playing cards you’ve […]
Quotables: Walt Disney on the Power of Pictures
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. -Walt Disney
Quotables: Maya Angelou on Creativity
“You Can’t Use Up Creativity. The More You Use, The More You Have.” -Maya Angelou
Finally! Web Design with Complete Creative Control and No Coding
For years, the biggest obstacle facing web designers has been the burden imposed by coding. Many don’t know how to do it all or only have a narrow skillset in the field, thus limiting what they could do on the design side and/or being forced to outsource what they couldn’t handle on their own. And […]
Quotables: Paula Scher on Making Mistakes
“It’s through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.” –Paula Scher
Lucia Eames Carried on Family Design Legacy
Lucia Eames, the only child of American architect and designer Charles Eames and only step-daughter of designer and painter Ray Eames, died April 1 at the age of 83. Born in 1930 to Charles and his first wife, Catherine Woermann, Lucia was an artist, graphic designer, owner of the Eames Office, and founder of the Eames Foundation — not […]
Logos You’ll Love
Jimmy Fallon rules “Tonight” with a new moon-shaped logo by Emily Oberman of Pentagram’s New York office. Related Oberman clients have included 30 Rock, Late Night, and Saturday Night Live. Fire and ice, snowflake and flame. Duffy & Partners has updated the Sub-Zero identity and made a better visual connection to Sub-Zero’s Wolf line of […]
Quotables: Van Gogh on Creating Great Things
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” -Vincent van Gogh
10 Great Quotes by Famous Graphic Designers
There are three responses to a piece of design — yes, no, and WOW! WOW is the one to aim for. – Milton Glaser, named the Most Influential Graphic Designer of the Past 50 Years The details are not the details. They make the design. — Charles Eames If you can design one thing, you […]
Catching Up With Real Women
The era of objectifying women and judging beauty based on one idealized standard ended a generation or two ago, at least in the public realm and polite society. But consumer advertising people are often the last to know, which may explain why many of them are taking a victory lap — some 20 years late […]
Quotables: Ray Eames on What Works
“What works good is better that what looks good, because what works good lasts. -Ray Eames
Blade Runner Favorite Movie of Top Designers
For every two graphic designers, it seems, there are three opinions. I’ve been studying answers to questions we pose each year to our People To Watch and Students To Watch — favorite book, fine artist, music, website, etc. — to mine for clues as to what you all are thinking, feeling, planning, doing. As usual, it […]
The Next Step in Simple
GDUSA has been covering stock imagery for three decades. It is clear that the story of stock imagery for creative professionals is an evolution from analog to digital, from slow to fast, from lack of choice to abundant choice, from expensive to affordable. And, most of all, from complex to simple. The next step in simple, […]