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  • A legacy of letters Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 6:37PMAn ambitious collaboration between street artist Maser and singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey has been using the streets of Dublin as a canvas, covering it with bold statements and murals. It’s a project that drew inspiration from the forgotten art of traditional signwriting – and one signwriter in particular, the late Kevin Freeney, writes Davin O’Dwyer
  • Mumbai to host design conference Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 8:30AMGuided by top designers and creative heads, DesignYatra, India's largest annual design conference, will be held here Sep 3-4 on the theme 'Order of Chaos', an official said.
  • Mumbai to host design conference Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 8:24AMMumbai, Aug 29 : Guided by top designers and creative heads, DesignYatra, India's largest annual design conference, will be held here Sep 3-4 on the theme "Order of Chaos", an official said.
  • Notes from the mint Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 1:50PMEver wondered how the Indian rupee has come to look the way it does?
  • Kindle 3 is smaller, but a big deal e-reader Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 10:32PMThe iPad changed the e-book reader landscape, and Amazon has fired right back with a new Kindle that's smaller in size - and price - than its predecessor, but not short on features or promise.
  • Abilene Christian University to Advance the Future of Books, Student Engagement in Year Three of its Mobile-Learning ... Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 2:46PMABILENE, Texas----With a fall 2010 freshman class of digital natives and a campus fully saturated with iOS devices, Abilene Christian University’s mobile-learning initiative, Connected, enters its third year with dozens of real-world projects designed to find new ways to learn, work and collaborate in the digital age.
  • They know drama Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 2:31PMThey know drama
  • Giving Notice:Words on Walls appears Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 11:33PMThe new Dalhousie Art Gallery exhibit invited a group of local and international artists to install their typography directly on the gallery's walls. by Holly Gordon "New!" reads a gallery wall-sized red bubble, slightly to the left of Dalhousie Art Gallery's entrance. Garry Neill Kennedy's painted wall projection yells at you as a Future Shop flyer would, but his installation for the gallery's ...
  • 6 New Mac Apps for Designers and Developers Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 10:31PMThis series is supported by Rackspace , the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here . Mac OS X is a popular platform for developers and designers of all stripes. Apple…
  • Young designworks Talent Chosen for London Show Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 9:29PMHotshot young Wellington designer Josh Barr’s work has been selected for show at the upcoming Anti Design Festival in London.
  • HSMAI Foundation And TIG Global Release Effective Web Design White Paper And Webinar Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 5:04AMIn conjunction with its mission to increase awareness and understanding of emerging trends, The HSMAI Travel Internet Special Interest Group, in partnership with TIG Global, have released a new white paper titled, Effective Web Design. The paper explores significant topics in contemporary website design and offers tips on how hospitality organizations can parlay these lessons into increased ...
  • From high-concept design to letterpress, the Nadeaus keep it creative Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 4:23AMAllison and Daniel Nadeau are one of those couples you can't help but be a little jealous of. They both ooze intelligence and creativity, and when they collaborate, you get a double-shot of talent. Daniel is a freelance interaction designer, while Allison is the crafty one — she co-hosted the Charleston Craft Bee back in June. by Erica Jackson Allison and Daniel Nadeau are one of those couples ...
  • College Majors You Never Knew Existed Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 7:45PMDrexel University: B.S. in Culinary Science A degree in the culinary arts will equip you with the skills to make a kickin’ chicken cordon bleu, but a degree in culinary science combines the knowledge of the kitchen with food science (the study of food at the molecular level), natural... [This is a summary. To read the full article on PhiladelphiaWeekly.com, click the headline above.]
  • Poet makes the most of new media Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 8:11PMAmerican poet Ezra Pound once said: "Poetry is news that stays news." WA Poetry Inc obviously wants to make sure poetry stays news that stays news, with its popular Spring Poetry Festival now in its sixth year.
  • Supercharging the Next Generation of E-Commerce Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 7:04AMAs e-commerce continues to evolve at a record pace, websites must keep up with the ever-changing demands of increasingly knowledgeable and sophisticated online shoppers. Companies need to enhance their online presence by applying modern techniques and technologies -- dynamic personalization, social shopping, mobile sites and location-based tie-ins, and more.
  • Czech literary treasures in London Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 10:51AMNot many of the thousands of passengers arriving every day at London’s busy St Pancras Station are aware that they are passing just a few dozen metres away from one of the largest and most diverse collections of Czech books outside the Czech Republic. Tucked in beside the station is the huge, but surprisingly inconspicuous complex of the British Library. In this week’s Czech Books, David Vaughan ...
  • National audience awaits Thresher writers Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 3:35AMTo misquote former Thresher cartoonist Dan Derozier, there are three reasons for alumni to write Thresher columns: loneliness, revenge and the fetishization of lost youth. This column is probably a combo of all three, although the more obvious purpose is to encourage you to write for the Thresher.
  • Iranian artist creates typographic illustrations of Shahnameh characters Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 9:37AMTEHRAN, Aug. 21 (MNA) -- An Iranian graphic artist has created 300 typographic illustrations of the characters in the Shahnameh over the past two years.
  • Display is not your average window treatment Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 1:11PMIf you haven't already noticed, Chapeau Rouge has some weird things in its windows.
  • Authors haven't closed the book on future Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 7:33PMThe publishing industry, never calm, has recently seen seismic shifts. A few weeks ago, Amazon announced that it now sells more e-books than print. Add to this predictions that within five years, 50 percent of all book sales will be online, along with reports of a drop in reading among young people, and it's understandable some are predicting a dire future for the novel and independent bookstores.
  • Life & Style Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 5:40AMYou may be surprised to hear, as I was, that one of London's most vibrant art galleries sits in the middle of an estate halfway between Stockwell and Brixton. Artists from all over the world paint new masterpieces here every week but none of the works is available to buy and take home to hang on your wall.
  • Spin - A New Twist on Vintage Board Games: Work by Jennifer Judd-McGee and Mati McDonough Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 2:01AMSan Francisco design store and gallery, Rare Device, is proud to present: Spin - A New Twist on Vintage Board Games: Work by Jennifer Judd-McGee and Mati McDonough. The work will occupy the Rare Device gallery September 28, 2010. A reception for the show will be held Thursday, September 2, 2010 from 7 - 9 pm.
  • Hollings Library showers light on rare collections Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 1:24AMBy: Josh Dawsey News Editor Stand five steps inside Thomas Cooper Library on a sunny day. Look to the back of the library, past the cubicles of computers, the bookshelves, the study tables and the hundreds of people chatting and working.  ...
  • Web Fonts Plan Inches Closer to W3C OK Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @ 2:37PMThe Web Open File Format (WOFF) nears official approval as a way to enable site designers to use a broad set of fonts supported in major browsers.
  • Daniel Grant: Can E-Mails Replace Printed Exhibit Announcements? Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @ 7:09AMCutting costs is the byword of our time, but it is not always clear which expenditures are essential and which can be eliminated more painlessly....
  • Prairie harvest (times 10) Friday, August 13, 2010 @ 3:26PMThe small Alberta publisher Frontenac House makes ambitious claims for poetry
  • Perfect penmanship Thursday, August 12, 2010 @ 10:05AMIn this slapdash age of email and texting, 150 people gathered at Red Deer College this week to learn the painstaking art of hand lettering.
  • Jan McCready's Web Site Reviewed Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 9:23PMOur three experts review Jan McCready's Web site, www.janmccready.com, and find that the outstanding problem was the time it takes to load. I think the number one problem is that the site takes way too long to load.
  • Dave Newhouse: Role model carries several roles Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 8:15PMSteve Jones, an Oakland graphic artist, is profiled in the book "Real Role Models: Successful African Americans Beyond Pop Culture," published this year by the University of Texas Press.
  • Movie review: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 7:26PMEver since Jean-Paul Belmondo imitated Humphrey Bogart in the 1960 French New Wave classic Breathless, lurking in the shadow of his fedora and dragging his thumb across his lip, filmmakers have filtered their stories through the lens of popular culture.
  • The New York Times Launches International Weekly in Singapore Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 3:53PMNEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The New York Times launches International Weekly in Singapore
  • The New York Times Launches International Weekly in Singapore Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 3:43PMNEW YORK----The New York Times has launched its international news supplement in Today, Singapore’s daily newspaper. The publication joins a global network of newspapers in 29 countries that carry The New York Times’s international weekly, first introduced in 2002.
  • 5 Cross-Platform Mobile Development Tools You Should Try Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 1:17PMThis series is supported by Rackspace , the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here . As mobile OSes — especially iPhone and Android — wax and wane, the pressing question…
  • Cabinet Secrets: Exhibition of Prints and Drawings at Tel Aviv Museum of Art Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 10:33PMLeonora Carrington, The Dogs of the Sleeper, 1942. Etching. TEL AVIV.- The publication of the Surrealist VVV Portfolio in 1943 is considered to be one of the highlights of Surrealist activity in New York in the early 1940s.
  • Sediment Seminars Aim To Better Protect Water Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 10:07PMOfficials are hoping up to 90 Northland contractors and consultants will attend one of a series of seminars designed to better protect the region’s waterways from harmful sediment runoff.
  • ProtoTypography by one8one7 Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 7:17PMTypography takes a 3-dimensional turn. Marcus Piper and Christey Johanssson – the design duo behind the studio – work extensively with type and branding from their base in Austinmer, on the coast of NSW.
  • Official defends website Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 3:13PMIt's a "work in progress" but one which city hall officials say is a vast improvement over its former incarnation.[...]
  • Trecter Entertainment President John Luongo Announces Exclusive Representation of Famed Grammy Nominated and Award ... Saturday, August 7, 2010 @ 2:00AMAs part of Trecter Entertainment’s growing full service media representation, and under the direction of the company’s President John Luongo, they have recently signed on the globally renowned design team and creative directors Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz and are now handling securing their services for projects in the US and abroad.
  • "Chalk and Walk" draws budding pavement artists Friday, August 6, 2010 @ 11:13PMThree-year-old Corey Parker stood up from the pavement, the back of his corduroy shorts covered in yellow chalk.His mother, Tami Parker of Mayfield, dusted him off as his twin brother, Gavin, stayed plopped on the sidewalk with a chunk of orange chalk i
  • Plishka trial begins Monday Friday, August 6, 2010 @ 5:08PMA large number of jurors is expected to descend on the Wayne County Courthouse Monday as one of Wayne County’s biggest trials begins as the August trial term heats up.
  • The Signspotter: Tommy Wells Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 9:22AMSignspotter says : Wells may have the most substantive sign of the season, only one around that could double as the cover of a campaign manifesto. It’s wordy, but it takes a stand: a pedestrian agenda is a real policy choice. This is a sign that can provoke a proper political argument.
  • Graphic Dork Hardcore Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 9:08AMArrrrrgggggghhhh! Hardcore! Right? Well, maybe not so much with descender. These guys all wear glasses. They all have beards (none out of control, all tamed). They’re graphic designers. They drive Zipcars to shows, for Chrissakes.
  • Fine display of optimism Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 9:00AMTHE Melbourne Art Fair opened its doors on Wednesday night.
  • New maps could hike insurance cost Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 6:49AMNew flood insurance rate maps developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency could lead to dramatic cost increases for some property owners on Oahu and Kauai.
  • my paper's classy redesign is a winner Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 4:07AMAS THEY say, the third time's the charm, and my paper has certainly got the winning look with its third incarnation.
  • Max Eternity: African Digital Art Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 2:36PMAfrican Digital Art came out of a need for more visibility of Africa's talent in the digital media industry. Jepchumba is the founder of African Digital Art -- an online collective of digital artists and enthusiasts.
  • Microsoft releases final pre-beta preview of IE9 Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 2:34PMThe final platform preview of Internet Explorer 9 takes the browser's Acid3 score as high as Microsoft expects it to get, as the company is ignoring a couple of rarely-used web specs
  • Extensis® Launches Web Font Service WebINK™ Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 2:08AMNORTHAMPTON, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--web fonts, font management, web designers, cloud based web font
  • Extensis® Launches Web Font Service WebINK Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 2:00AMNORTHAMPTON, England----Extensis, a division of Celartem Inc., today announced that the web font rental service, WebINK is now fully available to the public.
  • Letters for August 4 Tuesday, August 3, 2010 @ 8:24PMReaders sound off on the US penal system, our movie review, Jack London Market, indoor pot farms, and more. "Fight the Power," Letters, 7/21 Shrill Typography, Shrill Manifesto Ms. Redmonde's shrill manifesto, replete with SCREAMING CAPITALIZATION, harkens back to 60s/70s bullhorn politics, and makes me want to stop and consider her position as much now as it did then. Jeffrey L. Suits ...