DESIGN CHATTER
Celebrate the Mac at the Computer History Museum
Apr 05, 2024
2024 marked 40 years for the original Macintosh computer, the beloved workhorse of graphic designers the world over, and to celebrate that milestone, the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley hosted an exhibit and a live event. With an exhaustive physical collection of the computers themselves, as well as rare artifacts such as publications, company swag, and personal effects of the employees, like business cards, this collection is a pretty in-depth look at the history of the computer we all count on every day.
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Cast a Spell on Your Design
Apr 03, 2024
Designspells.com is a great inspiration site, touting itself as a repository of “design details that feel like magic”, this collection has just about everything you can think of that adds that little bit of je ne sais quoi that takes a design from good to great, from merely good looking to absolutely memorable. And that can make all the difference to a client or a campaign! From pure graphic design style, to easter eggs,
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Does Cursive Have a Place in Today’s World?
Mar 22, 2024
Did you have to learn cursive writing in school? Depending on your age, it was either required, you’ve never done it at all, or you fell into a grey area and you learned a little, but not enough to really be proficient (that’s us!) Despite its general decline in usage, recent legislation in states like California and New Hampshire is reintroducing cursive into school learning curriculums, sparking a debate within the design community about its relevance in branding and consumer engagement.
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Museum Worthy…Ads?
Mar 20, 2024
It’s hard enough making museum-worthy art, but museum worthy ads would be on an entirely different level! But that’s exactly what the 2024 AICP Awards challenged their entrants to do. Submissions were due on March 12th, so it’s too late to enter, but the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (that’s what the AICP stands for) had a special twist on the prize for the winners of this year’s competition: the winning work will be included in the film archive at MoMA!
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The Paris 2024 Games Official Posters Revealed
Mar 15, 2024
It’s 2024, and that means it’s an Olympics year! With the games right around the corner (seriously how is this year flying by so fast?!), the Olympic Committee has released a new poster hyping up the global competition, and it takes inspiration from an unlikely source: Where’s Waldo! Local Parisian artist Ugo Gattani was tapped to create these intricate designs, and instead of a singular character like Waldo to be on the lookout for, the viewer is instead encouraged to look closely at the intricate detail the artist put into these posters,
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When 404 Pages Are Worth Finding
Mar 13, 2024
The humble 404 page: a page you never want anyone to see, but a page you absolutely have to have on your website, or your site will suffer the SEO wrath of Google. So since you have to have it, it might as well be well-designed! 404s.design is a collection of some of the best 404 pages out there, from the best looking, to the quirkiest, to the funniest, to some that are just great examples of clean design,
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