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Ilise Benun Ilise Benun thinks self-promotion is like exercise: it’s something that should be done everyday for a healthy financial future, but that we almost always find excuses to avoid. As a top marketing strategist in the creative world, Ilise teaches people like you to promote themselves and their business in her own consulting firm, Marketing Mentor, as well as...
Jean Perwin Jean Perwin is a Miami based attorney who specializes in Intellectual Property Law, Entertainment and General Corporate Law. She is most recently a recurring author for Notes on Design, and has a just launched a new series of informational posts to answer all your burning trademark/copyright questions. For those unfamiliar with the genius of Jean, we asked her...
…or is it? I want! I want! I want! I want a new iPhone, and I want to take pictures with it, and download music onto it, and watch movies on it, and I want a million dollars to help me buy it and pay the monthly bill: one reason of several that only 146,000 iPhones were actually connected to...
Lots of you, like me, freelance. Being a freelancer comes with all sorts of special perks, like working in your pajamas (don’t do this), having the freedom to pick up your dry cleaning during the work day (don’t do this either), and not paying taxes (if I have to say it, you don’t deserve the warning). Another totally not...
Brian Edlefson Brian Edlefson strives for more graphic thought and less visual clutter. As a lead designer in Whirlpool Corporation’s multi-disciplinary Global Consumer Design studio, Edlefson is responsible for infusing household brands like Whirlpool, Maytag, Kenmore, and Amana with smart graphic design strategies. Prior to moving to Michigan, Brian developed design solutions at Target, The Museum of Modern Art in...
The Sensate wearable female condom, Tonita Abeyta, 2001 Skin: Surface, Substance + Design was originally published to accompany the 2002 exhibition of the same name at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. The recent reissue includes a new introduction, ‘2nd Skin,’ by the show’s curator, Ellen Lupton. This updated prologue takes into account new work that’s in...
This blog has seen a rash of posts addressing the issue of design snobbery, from typography to magazine readership. I always find this an interesting topic because design is ostensibly art put to marketable use ‘for the people’, yet often tows a pretty snooty line when it comes to defending itself against aesthetic and professional impurities. (Several terrific fights...
Every year, the New York Chapter of the AIGA stages a podium discussion of emerging designers as part of their Fresh Dialogue/New Voices in Graphic Design series; each event is subsequently recorded in a publication put out by Princeton Architectural Press. It’s a handy little paperback with big print, a running side margin documenting incidents of audience participation (sometimes...
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, the head of the Graduate Program in Graphic Design at Yale since 1990, is also a practicing designer, public artist and Feminist. In 1971, de Bretteville founded the Woman’s Design program at Cal Arts, and later co-founded the historic public space ‘The Woman’s Building’ with Judy Chicago and Arlene Raven 1973, and...
If there is a utopic, sun dappled wonderland for nerds—the kind of place abundant with old circuit boards and sympathy for anachronistic societies—it would probably feature lots of free copies of Make magazine. Make: technology on your time, published quarterly by O’Reilly Media (of Tim O’Reilly, champion of the open source movement and all forms of tech related publishing),...
