The Type Directors Club’s highest honor recognizes individuals and institutions who have made outstanding contributions to typography. Jan Middendorp is the latest recipient and will receive the medal in May.
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Aida Alvarez
Aida Alvarez is a designer inspired by her love and fear of the internet.
Joshua Williams
Joshua Williams is a designer, artist, and student from Beaumont, Texas.
Saltzman Steps Up To Senior Designer
New Jersey designer Alex Saltzman continues to advance through creative and leadership strides while being honored for her exceptional design prowess.
Pentagram Co-Founder Colin Forbes Passes
The celebrated designer and co-founder of Pentagram has passed away at age 94. During his career Colin designed graphics and visual identities for a wide range of clients and industries.
Pantone Moves To A More Digital Future
Pantone has released the newest iteration of its first all-digital platform, Pantone Connect. The move highlights an increased focus on creating products and services address the designer’s changing workflow that merges the physical and digital space.
Tré Seals Designs Spike Lee Monograph
SPIKE is a visual celebration of Spike Lee’s life and career to date designed by Tré Seals.
Die-Cut Teardrop Strengthens Label System
O Street helps Denver Distillery reflect the value of handcrafting in their brand with a new logo, typeface, illustrations and a teardrop logo.
Finn Partners Updates ABA Logo Design
The ABA worked with marketing agency Finn Partners, which Rives said went through dozens of possibilities before recommending the new logo design.
COE Designs Collateral While Print Guidelines Evolve
Flexibility and intuitive thinking were key to Coe Designs collateral for Skaggs Graduate School, part of Scripps Research.
LRXD Design Appeals To Cannabis Cultivators
Health & Happiness Advertising Agency LRXD has created new packaging for Growers, a Colorado company that sells soil and nutrients designed to grow the most verdant cannabis crops.
The GDUSA Podcast #3: Megan Flood of Marine Lane
Gordon talks with Megan Flood of boutique design studio Marine Lane about design school, bipartisan politics and her love of Serendipity ice cream.
Rizco Adds Designer To Team
Branding agency Rizco adds a new designer, Alexa Saltzman, to their team.
BuzzFeed Spinoff Evokes Traditional Newspapers
A new logo and Identity for Buzzfeed News, a serious news spinoff from the parent, looks newspaper-y and is executed inhouse.
Ford Foundation Head to Receive 2018 Director’s Award
Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, is the Director’s Award recipient of the 2018 National Design Awards.
‘Non-Traditional’ Tim Allen Joins Wolff Olins
Tim Allen, former head of Amazon’s product design studio, new President at Wolff Olins NA
2015 Designer Friendly Directory
We spotlight roughly 100 companies and organizations providing first-rate products and services.
Quotables: Milton Glaser on Design
Just enough…
Creative Role Models: Did Your Favorite Make the List?
The one person, living or dead, who most inspires creatively…
Just in Time for Valentine’s Day: Illustrators Join Forces to Teach Us “How to Woo”
Illustrators from around the globe have come together in the name of love…
6 Steps to the Ultimate New-Business-Year Resolution
In our fast-paced, deadline-driven world, it is hard to find an extra minute for anything…
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.
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 […]
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 […]
A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design
Chip Kidd, the incomparable book designer, was among those featured in GDUSA’s 51st Anniversary People To Watch magazine. During preparation, I had a chance to watch his near-legendary TED talk once again; to marvel at his ample gallery of book covers, largely for Knopf; and to read the latest book he has authored. It is called […]
FDA Food Labeling Guide Made Easy
Great checklist for FDA Labeling
You Might Be a Designer If . . .
No one said being a designer is easy. Being a designer is kind of like riding the Gravitron at an amusement park. You’re strapped to a chair going a zillion miles an hour, and every time you try to look around at what everyone else is doing it’s just one big blur of awesomeness. In fact […]
Inside the Designer’s Studio, Circa 1974
In 1974 top designers and communicators opened up their studios and company doors. Here is a unique peek at the inner “workings” of George Lois, Herb Lubalin and Art Kane, among other notable contemporaries. George Lois‘ Office. Lois was named the Most Influential Art Director of the Past 50 Years by GDUSA readers.
Milton Glaser Named Most Influential Designer of the Past 50 Years
“I go to work every morning with the possibility that I might learn something I don’t already know … You should look at every problem and think, ‘what can I learn by doing this?’ And if you think you can learn nothing, forget about doing it.” – Milton Glaser, named Most Influential Graphic Designer of […]
Pablo Ferro Set The Stage
It’s getting late on a Tuesday afternoon and I’ve now spent an hour trying to get this story started, staring at my screen. But why am I so hung up on nailing the first few sentences? Why not just get to the point right away? Because humans have a psychological need for introductions, enticements, ease-ins: […]
The Designer Name Game
We’ve been dipping into the archives to celebrate our 50th anniversary and figured we’d put you to the test. We found this impressive grouping of iconic designers who judged Gilbert’s 1985 Great Designer Awards, a national letterhead design competition for students. Can you name all the designers in this picture? Don’t Peek Below!
Happy Birthday Mr. Vignelli
Today is the birthday of Massimo Vignelli. When I first met him some five decades ago, I was wearing pajamas. But I am getting ahead of the story. Mr. Vignelli’s grace, style, and talent has been a constant source of astonishment to all who know him — not to mention a source of reportage in […]
One More Case for Jessica Hische
For those of you living under a rock, Jessica Hische is a designer, letterer, illustrator, and self-described “avid internetter,” not to mention a former GDUSA Person to Watch. I pretty much want everything she creates but these iPhone cases are calling to me right now and they make a perfect gift for any type lover or […]