http://designchat.info Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:23:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://designchat.info/armin-vit/ http://designchat.info/armin-vit/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:59:47 +0000 Shampton http://designchat.info/?p=2288 Wednesday, September 8th at 9pm CST — This week's conversation is supplemented by the thoughts and opinions of our guest, Armin Vit — one half of the dynamic-duo know to most as UnderConsideration. We have him about a week before his talk at AIGA Chicago's Design Thinking II, and we hope to search his head a bit, figuring out what makes him such an effective proponent for good design. MORE…]]> http://designchat.info/armin-vit/feed/ 1 http://designchat.info/dc-guest-quite-strong/ http://designchat.info/dc-guest-quite-strong/#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:13:15 +0000 Ryan McGovern http://designchat.info/?p=2192 This week DesignChat welcomes the design collective Quite Strong to the conversation. They're made up of 5 strong-minded women in Chicago who have combined forces to rule the design world. I'm not sure how this conversation is going to go between myself and five freaking guests, but its sure to be a little nuts. There was some talk about doing this game-show style, but who knows. The ladies assured me they have 'visuals' to present on Wednesday night, so if you're alive and have an internet connection, you pretty much don't have any excuse to miss this. MORE…]]> http://designchat.info/dc-guest-quite-strong/feed/ 0 http://designchat.info/hamilton-wood-type/ http://designchat.info/hamilton-wood-type/#comments Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:26:41 +0000 Shampton http://designchat.info/?p=1945 DesignChat visits The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum. An amazing design destination in the American Midwest. I first heard about the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in 2005 or 2006 while attending the "Seek" conference at Northern Illinois University. MORE…]]> http://designchat.info/hamilton-wood-type/feed/ 5 http://designchat.info/dc-guest-samatamason/ http://designchat.info/dc-guest-samatamason/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:01:57 +0000 Ryan McGovern http://designchat.info/?p=1787 This week on DesignChat we're speaking to 2 of the partners from SamataMason, a heavily decorated design firm in West Dundee Illinois. If that name sounds familiar, its because I say it every week on the show. SamataMason is where I broadcast from, and they have been great supporters of DesignChat and what we are trying to accomplish. Dave Mason and Kevin Krueger are going to take us through the history of their shop, and also what motivated them to start one of the most intriguing design conferences today, Cusp. More…]]> http://designchat.info/dc-guest-samatamason/feed/ 0 http://designchat.info/erik-spiekermann/ http://designchat.info/erik-spiekermann/#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:04:17 +0000 Shampton http://designchat.info/?p=1603 This Wednesday, August 11th, at 8PM CST, DesignChat welcomes the universally-respected creative director, typographer and design advocate, Erik Spiekermann to the conversation. Original designer of typefaces like ITC Officina, Unit, and even Meta— called one of the most successful humanist sans serif typefaces of the previous decade. MORE…]]> http://designchat.info/erik-spiekermann/feed/ 5 http://designchat.info/illustrate-for-flas/ http://designchat.info/illustrate-for-flas/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:17:37 +0000 Ryan McGovern http://designchat.info/?p=1532 Last week I was told I had to take a print ad that I designed and develop it into a flash web banner. No biggie, right? The only catch was that the final file size limit was 25kb. Ouch! The ad was heavy on photography, so I knew I had to illustrate every visual so that the artwork was completely vector-based. It doesn't matter how many times I've done this, I'm always daunted by the idea of illustrating for the web with the goal of photo-realism. MORE…]]> http://designchat.info/illustrate-for-flas/feed/ 3 http://designchat.info/2010_printers_ball/ http://designchat.info/2010_printers_ball/#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:49:47 +0000 Shampton http://designchat.info/?p=1269 When poets and designers collide, it tends to get a bit messy… But it’s a beautiful mess for sure. MORE…]]> http://designchat.info/2010_printers_ball/feed/ 8 http://designchat.info/value-your-work/ http://designchat.info/value-your-work/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:45:25 +0000 ohnho http://designchat.info/?p=1202 As designers try to make a name for themselves, we sometimes fall for the siren song of great exposure but at the cost of doing the work for free. GraphicHug points us to a article reminding us that doing work for exposure can adversely affect the business of design. MORE…]]> http://designchat.info/value-your-work/feed/ 0 http://designchat.info/kate-bingaman-burt/ http://designchat.info/kate-bingaman-burt/#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:27:25 +0000 Shampton http://designchat.info/?p=1108 This Wednesday, July 28th, DesignChat welcomes Illustrator & Graphic Design Professional Kate Bingaman-Burt — Author of “Obsessive Consumption” and Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Portland State University. MORE…]]> http://designchat.info/kate-bingaman-burt/feed/ 2 http://designchat.info/transformers-3-chicago-hd-video/ http://designchat.info/transformers-3-chicago-hd-video/#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:16:19 +0000 Ryan McGovern http://designchat.info/?p=1064 Steven Bogda caught some amazing video of the Transformers movie being filmed in Chicago. Shot on a Canon EOS 7D, his images look like candy. ]]> http://designchat.info/transformers-3-chicago-hd-video/feed/ 0