I can’t think of one promising finger painter or notepad doodler in their earliest design years who has expressed interest in becoming a “Communicator!” when he or she grows up. In freshman naivete, I presumed that my future as a collegiate remained a mystery behind one of only two doors to the university art department: [...]
Category Archives: Fun
I Guess Google Doesn’t Know All
July 16, 2010 – 8:10 am
We’ve had a lot of conversations in the office about the power of Google and what they might do with it. Google has a great office culture (Google “google office“) and provides many free apps, such as Docs, Analytics, and Maps to drive traffic to their websites. I am still astonished every time I look [...]
Misguided Logo Typefaces
June 25, 2010 – 4:37 pm
Sometimes we, as designers, complain about the overuse of common themed fonts like Papyrus, Brush Script, and Comic Sans. We also complain about misusing the font such as the example below. A local store called Upscale Clothing uses Comic Sans as their logo. Why would a place describing themselves as upscale use a handwritten font? [...]
Moustaches Invade the WWII Museum
June 17, 2010 – 5:13 pm
Design the Planet had one of it’s world famous “Fun Friday” events again this past month. We took a trip down to “The American Sector,” attached to the always educational, National WWII Museum. While we were waiting for our food, we decided to snap a couple of pictures. Look at those glorious moustaches! As much [...]
Great Design Blog Resource
June 9, 2010 – 10:34 am
Abduzeedo: There are a lot of great design blogs out there, but if you have not heard of this blog, you should check it out and then subscribe. They post every day, often many times a day, and it always seems to be something unique. They have all sorts of articles for inspiration, they have [...]
Welcome and Welcome Back!
June 8, 2010 – 2:48 pm
It’s that time of the year – intern season. This year we have one of last year’s interns, Laura, returning to us as a junior designer, and we’ve also been joined by Caleb, who’s this summer’s intern. We’re looking forward to working with two fresh perspectives and it’s always fun to add new personalities to [...]
NASA Does Design
May 26, 2010 – 1:01 pm
I happened upon this link this morning. It was actually pretty interesting. I know that each NASA mission takes pictures before they launch, but I had no idea they had been making “movie posters” for a few years now. I will be the first to admit that some of these posters are pretty terrible. I [...]
10 Billion Strong
February 23, 2010 – 10:23 am
Have you ever doubted the power of digital media or underestimated the impact of Apple’s iPod? This number may surprise you, in the coming weeks Apple’s iTunes will sell it’s 10 billionth download (that with a “b” meaning – 10,000,000,000)! Be the lucky downloader and you could win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card! As of [...]
Ad Placement is Everything
January 28, 2010 – 11:25 am
When I first saw this giant ad at the local mall, I wondered why would you advertise Gatorade in the mall. The target demographics were way off. When you think of the typical mall shopper you have soccer moms, tweens, and teenage girls. The teenage guys at the mall are usually looking at the teenage [...]
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