Abigail Smith is an award-winning graphic designer who specializes in web applications and digital environments. Since 2002, she has worked with a host of arts and non-profit organizations from her home base in Brooklyn, NY. She's shared a collection of some attention grabbing humanitarian campaigns with us.
THREE, TWO, ONE, HAPPY NEW YEAR! Every year, nearly a million people descend on Times Square in New York City, the Crossroads of the World, the Center of the Universe, to ring in a new year, say goodbye to an old year, brace the weather and embrace each other. If a ball dropping atop the second-tallest building in the...
The practical role of design is to communicate a message. Designers are visual communicators, and design is more than aesthetic. We must consider the target audience while still retaining an aesthetic, communicating a visual message, and doing it all to the client's expectations. That can be a lot to handle! This can be further complicated when our target audience...
It’s a bird…it’s a plane…it’s SUPERMAN! While his sense of fearlessness and charisma have remained unchanged over the years, the striking features of this superhero have not. From post-war strength to a greasy 90’s mullet (not the proudest of moments), Superman has endured trends and cultural changes since conception in 1938.
“Make art. Make progress. Volunteer your creativity to support President Obama’s jobs plan.” That’s the presentation of the “Art Works” poster contest being run by the Obama for America campaign to promote the American Jobs Act. But while Campaign Manager Jim Messina may view the contest as a great opportunity for creatives to put their...
Retail giant Forever 21 has defended itself against more than 40 copyright infringement lawsuits by high-end designers, including Anna Sui, Diane von Furstenberg, and Philip Lim 3.1. Forever 21 President Do Won “Don” Chang has managed to quietly settle all of the cases out of court, but with so many people feeling that their designs were ripped off, it...
Since 2000, a technological revolution has occurred that may have changed graphic design forever. Now, in one of the largest design exhibitions in over a decade, a collection of design work from the last 11 years explores how technology and social media have affected the way designers create and promote their work.
Accessing stock images has come a long way since the 80s. Thirty years ago, when stock houses began creating categorized collections of ready-to-use photographs, stock photography was considered a breakthrough for publishers. Unfortunately for designers of the time, though, using stock meant spending countless hours weeding through thousands of negatives in a physical collection, which kept the use of...
On a hot late summer day I sat down with the staff at NoD to talk about the future of our online design magazine. We’ve been publishing since 2006, and with a wealth of content contributed by an array of writers and editors over the years, it seemed a good time take stock of our strategic direction and our...
