Sessions Online Schools of Art and Design is a regionally and nationally accredited leader in online education and has prepared art and design professionals since 1997. Schools include Sessions Online School of Design, Sessions Online School of Game Art, and Sessions Online School of Fine Art. Notes on Design ( NoD ) and Notes on Game Dev ( NoGD...
By Brockett Horne Design Goes All Conceptual Beau Bergeron’s video (link via swissmiss) I used to describe the objects I make as a graphic designer as “artifacts.” I really enjoyed the sound of it: verified and notarized with the word “fact” wedged right in there. And of course, it had connotations of being museum-worthy, since all museums are full...
By Jean Perwin Design-related legal, copyright, trademark, or intellectual property rights confusion? NoD guest author and legal expert Jean S. Perwin is taking questions. If you have questions for Jean, email them to us using editor (at) notesondesign.net. Jean will reply to questions frequently here under the “Intellectual Property” category of NoD. Hi Jean, I recently sold a package...
By Mike Weikert Sipping coffee in the Birmingham Airport, I reflect on the past thirty-six hours in Alabama and my third time as an advisor to Project M. For those not familiar, Project M is an initiative founded by John Bielenberg whose purpose is to “inspire graphic designers, writers, photographers and other creative people that their work can have...
Image from Trollbäck designer Paul Schlacter’s short film. When I was in second grade, my teacher once asked the class what our favorite activities were. Most of us came up with typical 8-year-old answers like playing, drawing or eating ice cream, but my best friend Ulle replied “sleeping”. I remember being completely befuddled by this. Sleeping was a state...
By Mark Wieczorek This month in Copenhagen, more than 55 international economists, including five Nobel Laureates, will assess more than 50 solutions and assemble a list of priorities for everyone involved in solving the world’s biggest challenges. Will a group of experts come up with a better answer than a handful of experts or a single expert? What about...
The Beatles stamps by Johnson Banks We all know how important it is to stay in touch with what’s new in design and we all know how hard it is to keep track of it all.That’s when I.D.’s Annual Design Review comes to the rescue. The magazine gives you a short cut to the most innovative design of 2007...
By Justin Ahrens Illustration by Justin Ahrens This past June, I had the privilege of going back to speak at the HOW conference. My talk was entitled “Designer Sobriety: Life is crazy, so how do you balance life, joy, and great work?” My point was to share my thoughts on running your firm as life throws its inevitable ups...
By Kate Andrews Scanning the pages of GDi08, the graduate graphic design and illustration showcase from Brighton University (UK), I found a number of design projects that intelligently approach the world’s ecological crisis.
By Mike Madaio Mike, Why do all of the coolest technologies have such major usability problems?! I’m pretty much an entry-level coder (HTML, some PHP), but I want to learn something higher-end like ActionScript (Flash coding) or Ajax. But then users seem to have such issues with Flash and Ajax. Which one should I focus on learning if I’m...
