Customers. Audiences. Users. People. However you describe them, they are the reason that businesses and organizations exist, and ultimately they determine whether an organization succeeds or fails in the marketplace. As more and more organizations look to design for strategic advantage, a greater emphasis is being put on understanding how design motivates audiences. When combined with business analysis,...
Design trends ebb and flow just like fashion, literature, and the seasons. As designers, we have to stay aware of current trends to keep our work fresh and contemporary. We also have to stay aware of the trends to keep our work from being faddish, and strive to be timeless. So use your knowledge of trends wisely, because...
Nearly one billion people, or about one out of every seven people in the world, live in informal settlements, or slums, according to Design with the Other 90%: CITIES Web site. These places are full of people in search of work or misplaced by conflicts or natural disasters, who have migrated from the countryside to seek opportunity...
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.
Graphic design has found itself caught up in the political battle, aptly wielded to gain and maintain recognition for candidates and their campaigns. While candidates have long been using logos, with the unparalleled success of Obama’s “O”, the role graphic design plays in politics has been getting quite a bit more attention. We previously discussed political logos in...
Below is Part 1 of an excerpt from an upcoming Graphic Artists Guild White Paper PDF about common copyright myths and misconceptions. Anyone working in the graphic arts industry needs to have a working knowledge of copyright and what it affords the graphic artist, but before discussing some of the most common myths and misconceptions, a few basic facts...
Of all recent movements in art history, postmodernism may be the most controversial. Nevertheless, the slippery-to-define postmodernist movement has steadily become an underlying philosophy for a wide range of work in design, literature, art, film, architecture, fashion, and cultural and literary criticism.
Web technology author and Sessions College department head Christopher Schmitt spent a good portion of 2011 writing his latest O'Reilly book, the HTML5 Cookbook, 1st edition. Now that the book is safely out its early ebook edition, we asked Christopher some quick questions about Web development and cooking.
HTML5 has been blogged about by Web developers all over as the next big thing in Web design. But what is it, and how does it actually affect Web designers? Christopher Schmitt, an award winning HTML and CSS expert, author of HTML5 Cookbook, and head of Sessions College's Web Design degree program, will shed some light...
The Graphic Artists Guild has long been the most respected advocacy organization working to uphold and improve standards and protect the rights of graphic designers, Web designers, digital artists, illustrators, cartoonists, animators, art directors and anyone working in communication design. They also author the Graphic Artists Guild Handbook, the benchmark for Pricing and Ethical Guidelines for the industry in...
