Blogs about Design
31 blogs about Design.
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BLAG (Better Letters Magazine)
“Adventures in sign painting.” By Sam Roberts. 🇪🇸Updated
Recreating Newcastle's Iconic Tyne-Tees Steam Shipping Sign The Tyne-Tees Steam Shipping company operated out of Newcastle Upon Tyne in the first half of the twentieth century. Its passenger and cargo services to Europe and other parts of the United Kingdom were once …
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Brand New
“Opinions on corporate and brand identity work.” By Bryony Gomez-Palacio, Armin Vit. 🇺🇸 -
The Casual Optimist
“Books, Design and Culture.” By Dan Wagstaff. 🇨🇦Updated
Book Covers of Note, March 2023 I hope you’re keeping safe and well. There’s quite a nice mix of covers this month (I think?). There’s some fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Some paperbacks and some hardcovers. Inevitably there are books from the …
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Colossal
“Art, design, and visual culture.” By Christopher Jobson, Grace Ebert, et al. 🇺🇸Updated
A Short Art History Lesson Explores the Realistic Impressionism of John Singer Sargent A new video from Evan Puschak, the creator behind the Nerdwriter YouTube channel, delves into the uniquely blended style of the American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). Described by Kottke as “realism through impressionism,” …
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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. 🇺🇸Updated
Linkable Desks that Fold and Nest for Storage These Syncline Folding Desks, created for flexible workspaces and schools, are by Australia-based Sylex Ergonomics.They're up on lockable casters, and a locking dial beneath the worksurface allows the tabletops to tilt. With the tabletops tilted, …
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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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Designers & Books
“Posts lists of books that esteemed members of the design community identify as important, meaningful, and formative.” By Steve Kroeter, et al. 🇺🇸Updated
One Book and Why: Graphic Designer Louise Fili Recommends . . . The Revoluton of the Moon by Andrea Camilleri (Europa Editions, 2017). About this inspirational tale, based on a true story, of an “exceptional woman who rises to power in 17th-century Sicily and brings about sweeping …
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Design Inspiration ✨🦀
“A collection of non-digital work for inspiration.” By Buzz Usborne. 🇦🇺 -
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. 🇩🇪Updated
Melting Pot – A new English online magazine on different facets... Melting Pot – A new English online magazine on different facets of jewelry past and present - it is aimed at jewelry lovers all over the world. Initiated by the german Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, created in …
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Dezeen
“architecture and design magazine.” 🇺🇸Updated
Six architecture and design events in April from Dezeen Events Guide Milan design week, Coverings 2023 and Concéntrico 09 are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this month. Among the other events taking place in March are Tigullio Design District, Orgatec …
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“A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.” 🇬🇧Updated
Gustave Moreau (1826–1898), a film by Nelly Kaplan André Breton has acknowledged that his personal ideal of female beauty was established in his adolescence when he visited the Gustave Moreau museum in Paris; like Joris-Karl Huysmans’s protagonist, Des Esseintes, Breton was enthralled by …
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Graphic Journey Blog
“Mike Dempsey's blog on graphics and life.” 🇬🇧Updated
Fletcher 6 Here is part six, the final stage of Alan's creative life in words only. A link will always be at a foot of this series to visit Alan's wonderful archive. 1992-2006 Alan Fletcher Design From …
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Jane Audas
“Writing about historical and contemporary craft and design.” 🇬🇧Updated
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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KBBBLOG
“I am Kate Bingaman-Burt and I am teaching stuff and making things in Portland, Oregon.” 🇺🇸Updated
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.” 🇺🇸Updated
New in the Online Archive: Share Your Own Tables Our librarian Kate Long leads the Online Archive project and demos the new features here: Want more ideas? See how our community is using Tables, from design educators like Briar Levit, to type designers like …
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Matthew Ström, designer-leader
“I speak and write about design, front-end code, leadership, and (occasionally) math.” 🇺🇸Updated
Creating a positive workplace community Your workplace community — the way you interact with your coworkers every day — can have a major impact on your productivity, happiness, and self-worth. It’s natural to want to shape the community in ways …
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Moss and Fog
“A beautifully curated art, design, and nature site. Visual inspiration, everyday!” By Ben Vanderveen.Updated
Wes Anderson’s New Film Asteroid City Introduces New Stars to His Ensemble We’ve come to learn that being in a Wes Anderson movie is an ‘event’, even for the most seasoned Hollywood star. The quirky, lovable director’s films are so beloved that top talent feel a new …
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Noisy Decent Graphics
“A series of blog posts by Ben Terrett.” 🇬🇧Updated
Headline writers dream Whatever the pros or cons of the policy this has a real cones hotline feel to it. All the comedians must think it's Christmas. For my younger listeners, Cones Hotline.
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Org Design for Design Orgs
By Peter Merholz, Kristin Skinner. 🇺🇸Updated
Define your design team—here’s an agenda for creating a charter This year, I’ve helped 5 design teams draft their charter. At the outset of this work is a series of 4 2-hour group sessions (it used to be a one-day workshop in a conference room) …
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Metrics and UX/Design Maturity A common challenge for the design leaders I support is identifying metrics. They know their team is having a positive impact, but struggle articulating it in any concrete way. They seek canonical, industry-standard metrics that …
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