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Observed|Essays
The Visual Language of Herbert Matter
Known as a quintessential designer's designer, Swiss born Herbert Matter is largely credited with expanding the use of photography as a design tool and bringing the semantics of fine art into the realm of applied arts.
Observed|Essays
Gene Keyes’ 40-Year Quest for the Perfect Map
All Gene Keyes ever wanted was a perfect map.
Observed|Video
AIGA Medalist Video Profiles
Video profiles of the 2013 AIGA medalists created by dress code.
Observed|Miscellaneous
Typolitic
Typolitic is a new website that presents some of the best typographic student work from undergraduate design courses around the world.
Observed|Miscellaneous
We Don't [Heart] NY at Moments Like These
Japanese-born designer Takeshi Mikayawa was arrested over the weekend by New York police for "planting false bombs" — which were not bombs at all but light sculptures in plastic bags.
Observed|Photos
Silent World
Silent World by Lucie & Simon captures the world devoid of most human activity
Observed|New Ideas
Be an AIGA Design Star
Command X — the AIGA live design reality show that happens on stage at the biennial design conference — is back for its fourth season.
Observed|Miscellaneous
Bistrophobie Poster
Can a poster shut people up? Locals in a bistro-dense corner of Paris would like to think so.
Observed|Shameless Promotions
Sites of Memory
Writer/Art Director Angela Riechers launches Sites of Memory, a map-based website accompanied by smartphone tours that reattach the stories of New York City’s forgotten dead to the urban landscape.
Observed|Miscellaneous
Tweeting Birds
@Hungry_birds are real birds from Latvia typing on the keyboard made from fat.
Observed|Competitions
Wheelwright Prize 2013 Winner
Gia Wolff, Brooklyn-based architect, wins $100,000 travel grant for her proposal Floating City: The Community-Based Architecture of Parade Floats.
Observed|Miscellaneous
Really?
Let's not even talk about the fonts. Or the grid. Or the tricked-out heart dingbat or the color palette or, heaven help us, the struggling bezier curve.