Blogs about Design
39 blogs about Design.
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BLAG (Better Letters Magazine)
Adventures in sign painting.
By Sam Roberts. 🇪🇸 More infoUpdated
Martre Meets Again, and the Competition is Fierce For the second year of France's Martre gathering, it was a case of (paint) shop 'til you drop for the assembled sign painters. Hosts Tristan Gesret (@etsgesret) and Adeline Le Broc had erected a dozen …
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Brand New
Opinions on corporate and brand identity work.
By Bryony Gomez-Palacio, Armin Vit. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
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Carl Barenbrug
A product designer and creative director at Minimalissimo and 099.
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Compass Lately, I've been thinking about my inner compass — the one that guides me through work and daily life. I've touched on my design ethos before, but this feels like something more personal. It's a …
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Carl Barenbrug
Creative Director + Product Designer.
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Seeing Beauty in Basic To-Do Lists I like making lists. A lot of people do. And this is reflected in the abundance of to-do apps available today. There's a silly amount of them. Designed to augment and organise our lives, they …
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The Casual Optimist
Books, Design and Culture.
By Dan Wagstaff. 🇨🇦 More infoUpdated
Book Covers of Note, October 2024 Hey, I hope you are good. It’s a stressful time and everyone is super busy trying to hold it together, but here we are at the end of October with another post that is both …
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Colossal
Art, design, and visual culture.
By Christopher Jobson, Grace Ebert, et al. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Döppel Studio’s ‘Néophore’ Vessels Illuminate Ancient Pottery Traditions with Neon In ancient Greece, amphorae were commonly used for carrying or storing liquids and grains like wine, oil, or cereal. A narrow neck and a large, oval body were easily moved with handles on each side. …
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Core77
Magazine and resource offering calendar of events, firm listings, jobs section, forums, articles and competitions.
By Eric Ludlam, et al. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Best Old-School Design Solutions Spotted in 2024 Everyone's talking about the future, AI, blah blah blah. But this year we saw plenty of cool design solutions from earlier decades and centuries.Early mass production: In ancient China they developed Dragon Kilns, which run …
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Coudal Partners - Fresh Signals
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A Letraset Database Instant Lettering, A Letraset Database. From Hoosier Type Co.
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Dan Mall’s Posts
Read about how to grow in design systems, design process, and design leadership.
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581 Miles There’s a billboard I pass by on the NJ Turnpike when I drive from Philly to New York. It says: ↶ 581 miles. Buc-ee’s. I’ve never been to a Buc-ee’s before so I don’t know …
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Designers & Books
Posts lists of books that esteemed members of the design community identify as important, meaningful, and formative.
By Steve Kroeter, et al. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
The Book We Need Now: New from Stefan Sagmeister Now is Better by Stefan Sagmeister, soft-cover book and slipcase (Phaidon Press, 2023). The book continues Sagmeister’s life-long interest how design can best speak to people and improve their lives. Initially conceived in 2020 as …
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Design Inspiration ✨🦀
A collection of non-digital work for inspiration.
By Buzz Usborne. 🇦🇺 More infoUpdated
miamaimania: Unboxing Illusions: Yrjö Edelmann’s Hyperrealistic... miamaimania: Unboxing Illusions: Yrjö Edelmann’s Hyperrealistic Packaging Paintings
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Design is fine. History is mine.
Imagine a time with no computers but with lots of craftsmanship and creativity. This is my library...
By Andrea. 🇩🇪 More infoUpdated
Pyramid Frames for Vidal Sassoon, 1968 Oliver Goldsmith, Sunglasses for the Vidal Sassoon Campaign, 1968. © Taschen Verlag. The Pyramid frames were modeled by Peggy Moffitt. Two versions were made, one in stainless steel and the other in acetate. Follow Oliver …
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{ feuilleton }
A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
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In the Hands of Madmen My latest cover for the Arkham Horror series from Aconyte continues the Art Deco trend of the other books in this series while also recycling some of the art from the previous covers. In the …
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Graphic Journey Blog
Mike Dempsey's blog on graphics and life.
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Oskar Altherr 1919 - 2010 A rare poster by Oskar Altherr For more about the extraordinary story of Oskar Altherr, click the links below. Part onehttps://mikedempsey.typepad.com/graphic_journey_blog/2010/02/mountain-man-part-one.htmlPart twohttps://mikedempsey.typepad.com/graphic_journey_blog/2010/03/mountain-man-part-two-.htmlPart threehttps://mikedempsey.typepad.com/graphic_journey_blog/2010/04/mountain-man-part-3.html
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Guy Moorhouse — Blog
The portfolio of independent designer, Guy Moorhouse.
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Pieces I have made an exploratory prototype of a new game called Pieces for New York Times Games.
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Jane Audas
Writing about historical and contemporary craft and design.
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Paul Nash: Wonderfully particular I had my beady eye on this book coming out. Paul Nash is an artist and designer I always find draws me in. He was one of a handful of artists that worked in the …
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Jorge Arango
Information architect, author, and educator.
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The Resurgence of Plain Text in the Age of AI Plain text won. As the lingua franca for interacting with LLMs, Markdown is now ubiquitous. To wit: Microsoft recently released MarkItDown, an open source tool that converts various types of files (including DOCX, PPTX, and …
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KBBBLOG
I am Kate Bingaman-Burt and I am teaching stuff and making things in Portland, Oregon.
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Slowly creeping towards reopening up my online store! Do you... Slowly creeping towards reopening up my online store! Do you like how I do this after the holidays? I’m a professional 😎. However, I have lots of prints, pillows, zines and othe sundry items available …
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Letterform Archive — News
Recent news and announcements from Letterform Archive.
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Ten Typography Talks to Revisit from 2024 This year, Letterform Archive hosted 24 presentations on typography and graphic design. You can still watch them all. All Letterform Lecture videos All Archive Salon videos We presented two dozen lectures and salons in 2024, …
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Logo Design Love
On logos, symbols, icons, and marks.
By David Airey. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Super Logo Design Super Logo Design, edited by Taki Ono, is a two-volume set of paperbacks published in 2001 and 2002 by Graphic-sha in Japan. These spreads are from volume two, available to digitally borrow on archive.org. It …