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Designing Obama
Sol Sender, leader of creative development for the Obama ’08 campaign logo, discusses his creative process
December 8th, 2009
Lego my Logo
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago launched a new logo after displacing Katie Friedman’s long-standing black and red un-logo. Now that students have had some time to get used to the new branding, F News asked students what they think.
December 8th, 2009
Publishing the Obama brand
“Designing Obama”, a book chronicling the role of art and design in the Obama campaign is being published unconventionally, using funds raised on the web…
November 29th, 2009
Design Heroes
These twelve badasses revolutionized graphic design. Protecting the public from mundane magazine spreads, boring book covers, and no-fun front pages, these artists brought innovation to graphic design in the fields of photomontage, logo design, illustration, and typography.
November 29th, 2009
Screen Fonts on Paper.
Three legitmate differences that need to be taken into account when using a screen font on paper.
October 2nd, 2009
Design · Interviews · Type
Off the Screen & Onto the Page
Matthew Carter speaks about Verdana, Ikea’s new type identity
by Bethany Armstrong
“It’s true. IKEA abandons ~50 years of Futura and Century Schoolbook for… Verdana.” On August 21st Typophile.com, a popular typography and design blog, opened a discussion board with this controversial news for the type and graphic design communities. Most who commented were in agreement; fonts [...]
October 2nd, 2009
Angry letters to the editors
Students speak out on SAIC’s new logo
February 10th, 2006
Now for some shameless promotion
The F News website promises to fill in the holes created by the limitations of the monthly print edition, and generally lord it over the paper-and-ink crowd with their ability to deliver information almost instantaneously.
September 17th, 2005
Turn On Your Mind by Maya Bruck
April 2005
April 24th, 2005
Arts & Culture · Design · Exhibition
Massive Change and the Future of Design
It’s not about the world of design, it’s about the design of the world, and so the story goes behind “Massive Change: The Future of Global Design” the exhibition, website, and book. The exhibition just began the second leg of its tour, opening last month at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. “Massive Change” will eventually breeze through the Windy City, slated to open in mid-September 2006 at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
April 24th, 2005
Everything Is Design by Gabriela Tejada
April 2005
April 24th, 2005
