DC55 DEBBIE MILLMAN
September 3rd, 2010 by Ryan McGovern. Published under Chats. No Comments.
Debbie Millman, AIGA national president, partner at Sterling Brands and creator of Design Matters, takes some time to visit with the DesignChat community. She discusses how she got started in the business, what it’s like being the president of AIGA and her plans for the future of Design Matters. MORE…
DC GUEST – QUITE STRONG
August 30th, 2010 by Ryan McGovern. Published under Inspiration, Upcoming Guests. No Comments.
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…
THERE’S A LITTLE PLACE I KNOW.
August 28th, 2010 by Shampton. Published under Design News, Inspiration, Trends. 5 Comments.
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…
5 HOURS OF POWER
August 25th, 2010 by Ryan McGovern. Published under Announcement, Chats. No Comments.
Wednesday is shaping up to be a very special day for creatives. 3 of my previous guests, Fabio Sasso of Abduzeedo, Nick Campbell, AKA The Greyscale Gorilla, and James White of Signal Noise are doing live shows of their own now, in addition to myself and Justin Maller. I am super proud of all of these guys for everything that they’re doing in the creative space, and I hope this is a trend that continues. We won’t see this combination every week, but I’m sure we’ll have repeat performances from time to time. MORE…
DC GUEST – ERIN LOECHNER
August 22nd, 2010 by Ryan McGovern. Published under Uncategorized. 2 Comments.
This week, Erin Loechner welcomes US to the conversation. Erin is a freelance design writer/blogger whose work has been featured in Glamour, Dwell, Lucky and Nylon magazines. She muses daily on her award-winning website Design For Mankind, founded in 2007 in an attempt to bring light to today’s creative design culture. MORE…
NEW: TYPE DESIGN DEGREE
August 17th, 2010 by Ryan McGovern. Published under Trends, Typography. No Comments.
Something that is both wonderful and surprising will happen in October. Students at the Cooper Union in New York will attend classes as part of a new masters degree program in typeface design called Type@Cooper. The wonderful part is that its happening at all; the surprising part is that its the first of its kind in the United States. MORE…
DC GUEST – SAMATAMASON -UPDATED
August 16th, 2010 by Ryan McGovern. Published under Announcement, Events, Inspiration, Upcoming Guests. No Comments.
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…
STA ARCHIVE MEET & GREET
August 15th, 2010 by ohnho. Published under Announcement, Events. No Comments.
If you’re in Chicago, come meet the judges of the 2010 STA Archive. It’s happening August 26 at the Landmark Grill + Lounge in Chicago’s Lincoln Park. For more information and to register, click here. MORE…
DC GUEST – ERIK SPIEKERMANN
August 7th, 2010 by Shampton. Published under Announcement, Inspiration, Typography, Upcoming Guests. 5 Comments.
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…
ILLUSTRATE FOR FLASH
August 6th, 2010 by Ryan McGovern. Published under Inspiration, Tutorial. 3 Comments.
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…