Organized by The One Club, the inaugural Freelancer Connect conference will provide practical business advice and a networking opportunity to a wide range of solo practitioners. Confirmed speakers include ad and design leaders, successful freelancers, and tax and accounting specialists.
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Corner Table Set For Memorable Connections
Corner Table Creative is an agency that builds memorable connections by making sure their team members, their clients and their clients’ audiences feel seen, heard and valued. 72andSunny and Code3 alums Rachel Brandt and Madeline Meade are the co-founders of the ‘female powered’ venture.
Full Sail University Hall of Famers Share Design Industry Advice
Full Sail University Hall of Fame inductees Kim Alpert, Michael Cardwell, and Nathaniel Howe talk about practical elements of working in the design industry — job hunting and career tips, business and entrepreneurship, clients and collaborators, and more.
Top 5 Reasons To Attend MAX 2022
MAX is one of the largest gatherings of graphic, web, UX, and multi-skilled designers. GDUSA readers save $400 on a full conference pass with promo code M22GDUSA. In-person attendance is limited so register early at adobe.com/go/maxgdusa
GoFundMe Goes For Digital Empathy
GoFundMe is taking a more sensitive approach to grief, with a new design flow for those organizing fundraisers for funeral and memorial costs that reframes the experience to feel more personal and less transactional.
Counterprint Book: Big Type Can Cut Through Clutter
A collection of work published by Counterprint focuses on how designers can be heard above the noise with an emphasis on typography.
AIGA and Yale Mix Business and Design
AIGA and the Yale School of Management come together for the ‘Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders’ Executive Learning Program.’ The program is now in its 15th year.
Solomeina: Industry Leaders Gather To Teach Design Leadership
Wolff Olins, Tide, Diageo, Zaha Hadid Architects, and Pentagram join forces with Future London Academy to deliver 2021’s Executive Program for Design Leaders.
Ruiz Returns To Jovenville
Andy Ruiz has rejoined Jovenville as their new creative director. In this role, he will work closely with founder Joven Orozco and oversee the agency’s creative direction and strategy. “We are thrilled to welcome Andy back after being away for a while,” said Orozco.
Mohawk Fine Papers Launches Paper With A Plan
Mohawk Fine Papers launches a new approach to specifying paper. Paper With a Plan refines and reorganizes the portfolio into five distinct Collections based on properties and attributes.
AIGA Announces Initiative With Wiki Education
AIGA has announced an initiative with Wiki Education to expand and build more comprehensive design histories. AIGA Wiki Scholars Program will provide training for AIGA members to add and expand the design knowledge base.
Coming Soon: Big Data, Big Design: Why Designers Should Care About Artificial Intelligence
Big Data, Big Design provides designers with the tools they need to harness the potential of machine learning and put it to good use through thoughtful, human-centered, intentional design.
Asian American Designers Break The Silence
Outspoken By Design is a group art show celebrating, supporting, and amplifying AAPI voices with the goal of raising money and awareness to #StopAsianHate. Wunderman Thompson is calling on AAPI designers across the globe to submit designs.
TGG Balances Compliance With Beauty In Rx-to-OTC Switch
The Goldstein Group created a balancing act for Poland’s Aleric Spray as it moves from Rx to OTC, i.e, compliance with EU regulations and a consumer-centric design strategy.
Pantone Reveals Color(s) of the Year
Pantone reveals Color of the Year 2021: Ultimate Gray and Illuminating, two independent colors that come together to convey a message of strength and hopefulness that is both enduring and uplifting.
Designers Resilient In Adversity
A GDUSA reader poll sponsored by Verso Corporation, papermakers extraordinaire, reveals a surprisingly positive can-do attitude among graphic designers in the face of adversity.
Six Creatives Rethinking The Business Of Design
In this mercurial moment, how are designers pivoting to meet the changing world head-on? Neenah explores that question in Rethink Everything, an editorial promotion designed by Design Army, that tells the stories of six creative pioneers taking on the challenge.
Message from the Sponsor: Verso Corporation
We are with you. We are better together. We are ready when you are. We are Verso.
Takeaway #1: Adapting Nimbly to the Challenge
Designers have continued to execute client projects even during the height of the crisis, mostly by setting up home offices.
Takeaway #2: Embracing Remote Working
Designers expect that the pandemic pause will permanently change where and how – and perhaps why – they work.
Takeaway #3: Hopeful About the Future
Designers are hopeful, even confident, about the long term value and viability of the graphic design business.
Takeaway #4: Bright Spots in the Darkness
Readers report a greater appreciation of family, friends, work-life balance, along with passions for creativity and for their chosen profession.
Takeaway #5: Print Means Human Connection
Respondents believe that, once the coronavirus crisis recedes, traditional modes and materials will have a renaissance.
Reimagining Design Education
Duke Greenhill of Savannah College of Art & Design on how the institution is redefining virtual learning and its students are reimagining design during the global pandemic.
Steve Crafts
Steve Crafts is the founding Partner and Chief Creative Officer at Place Creative Company.
Pum Lefebure
Pum Lefebure is an award-winning creative director, savvy business leader, and trendsetter.
Jon Vallance
As Creative Director, Jon Vallance has run the San Francisco Pearlfisher studio since 2018.
Shutterstock Celebrates Oscars With Reimagined Movie Posters
Shutterstock has launched its eighth annual Oscar Pop! poster series to celebrate the best picture nominees in the 92nd Academy Awards.
Carlos Caicedo
Three-time David Ogilvy Award Winner Carlos Caicedo knows the power behind a compelling story.
John Glasgow
John Glasgow guides New York ideas-led brand design agency Vault49.
Nakita M. Pope
Nakita M. Pope is the Chief Chick and Principal Brand Strategist at Branding Chicks.
Jamie McCathie
Jamie is a veteran at Turner Duckworth for over 13 years, and collected many industry accolades.
Xi Alice Zong
Xi Alice Zong is an award-winning graphic designer at Apple.
Kelli Miller
Kelli Miller is executive creative director and partner at And/Or.
Joel Krieger
Joel is endlessly fascinated by what can be accomplished through collaboration.
Max Allers
Max Allers is creative director at Max Marketing Communications.
Gerardo Ortiz
Gerardo Ortiz is a designer, cyclist, speaker and serial entrepreneur with a fresh perspective.
Julie Beall
Julie Beall lives and breathes design.
Mike Skrzelowski
Mike has over 20 years of global brand design experience leading design and innovation programs.
Dylan Mulvaney
Dylan Mulvaney’s expertise lies in translating a brand’s core values, strategy, and voice into striking visual executions. As an Art Director at Gretel,