1. Wow. Really?
    This ad is beyond ridiculous. Why don’t you take a deeper look into the entire scope of the issue instead of putting the blame on “art directors, graphic designers, and photo retouchers.” ? This ad diverts the core of the issue from challenging our perceptions of beauty outside of the media into blaming those who are often forced to act upon society’s skewed standards.

    2. 2 weeks ago  Notes (34) / advertising women ogilvy and mather graphic design
  2. candita: Featuring the “femme fatales of cartography,” A Map of the World: The World According to Illustrators and Storytellers has the (map) key to my heart.

    candita:

    Featuring the “femme fatales of cartography,” A Map of the World: The World According to Illustrators and Storytellers has the (map) key to my heart.

    (via fuckyeahcartography)

    3. 2 months ago  Notes (75) / infographics graphic design

  3. mcad-gd:

    Packet #1 by Ashley Huhe (2013), Advanced Graphic Design Seminar [NK]

    Travel Sickness is an on going self-initiated project meant to encourage and inspire young adults to travel abroad. 

    By creating physical packets based on a specific geographical and cultural location around the world the viewers literally unfold a new experience. In each packet are 5 elements, based on the 5 human senses, taste, smell, sound, touch, and sight, that are engaged when one goes abroad or travels to a new place. These packets create a realistic essence of the sensory experience of places around the world. Through others stories, sense explanations, food catalogs, visuals, as well as an audio CD of sounds the viewer can grasp the ambiance and energy of a foreign place. In an effort to diminish borders and the semiotics that attaches to the actual names of countries the country’s titles are never used throughout the packets. The goal is to create the essence of a location without prejudecs, stereotypes, or preconceived notions. However viewers are given each location’s longitude and latitude numbers that can be searched on google which requires and encourages the viewer to engage further into their curiosities and research.


    (via mkuooo)

    4. 6 months ago  Notes (82) / print graphic design
  4. my-tumblrisbetterthanyours: Postersession — Johannes Ammler @johannesammler.de

    my-tumblrisbetterthanyours:

    Postersession — Johannes Ammler @johannesammler.de

    (via andren)

    5. 9 months ago  Notes (51) / poster graphic design

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    6. 10 months ago  Notes (42) / print graphic design publication

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    7. 10 months ago  Notes (8) / poster graphic design typography

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    8. 11 months ago  Notes (13) / print graphic design
  8. nevver: Reasons not to date a Graphic Designer

    nevver:

    Reasons not to date a Graphic Designer

    9. 11 months ago  Notes (2162) / graphic design lol

  9. (Source: seaneo)

    10. 11 months ago  Notes (4) / graphic design

  10. design blog roundup 2012

    i suddenly felt compelled to direct you through this overwhelming myriad of design tumblrs. so here’s a compilation of well-curated blogs i came across in the past year that you should probably follow. or else.

    articulate design blogs
    http://galitl.tumblr.com/
    http://www.design-think.co.uk/
    http://blog.frankchimero.com/

    architecture
    http://miss-design.tumblr.com/
    http://archiphile.tumblr.com/

    graphic design
    http://littlebigdetails.com/
    http://tokimoki.tumblr.com/
    http://vizualize.tumblr.com/
    http://ultrazapping.tumblr.com/
    http://magazinspiration.tumblr.com/
    http://magazinewall.tumblr.com/

    typography
    http://typeworship.com/
    http://typeaux.tumblr.com/

    general inspirational goodness
    http://typetoy.tumblr.com/
    http://superbruut.com/
    http://exp.lore.com/
    http://thewaythingscouldbe.com/
    http://andren.tumblr.com/
    http://meatbox.tumblr.com/
    http://thenewblack.goffgough.com/
    http://christopheraritter.tumblr.com/
    http://prettyclever.tumblr.com/

    projects
    http://citizensforoptimism.tumblr.com/
    http://500albumcovers.tumblr.com/
    http://fauxgo.com/

    11. 1 year ago  Notes (42) / blog roundups design typography graphic design
  11. Yesterday, I got to see the opening of CSULB’s BFA Graphic Design show “20 FOLD”. Aside from seeing great individual work and impressive craftsmanship, I enjoyed looking at the social campaigns that they worked on in teams. I love seeing proposals of design in a social context. Be sure to check it out if you’re in the area! & congrats and thanks to Nellie for inviting me!

    Yesterday, I got to see the opening of CSULB’s BFA Graphic Design show “20 FOLD”. Aside from seeing great individual work and impressive craftsmanship, I enjoyed looking at the social campaigns that they worked on in teams. I love seeing proposals of design in a social context. Be sure to check it out if you’re in the area!

    & congrats and thanks to Nellie for inviting me!

    12. 1 year ago  Notes (3) / LA graphic design personal

  12. Let’s face it, graphic designers are cliché-mongers.

    Yet don’t be insulted (or embarrassed)––this is not as damning as it sounds. It is, however, the essential paradox. Although most designers’ goal is to create work that is here and now, the majority of graphic communication is grounded in the tried and true. In A Dictionary of Visual Language, Philip Thompson explained that classic or “hackneyed” pieces of imagery “persist because they contain an essential truth that appeals to our collective sense of myth and form.” The world understands these images at a glance. People don’t necessarily relish learning a new language every time they open a magazine, read an advertisement or see a billboard. Yet neither do they want to be bored by what they read or see.

    …To use the word cliché in a critique about a work of art of graphic design is indeed the sharpest barb. Yet visual clichés are also mnemonics, entry points and way-finders––both necessary and invaluable. The job of the contemporary designer is to somehow manipulate clichés by recasting their archetypal meaning. Mediocre designers use clichés without alteration, but clever designers invest timeworn veneers with new levels of meaning. Since graphic design is, in large part, a recycling of common imagery, then designers should squeeze out uncommon solutions. 

    New thoughts, after all, rise from discarded old ones. Every designer builds on an existing premise or problem. And the majority of design solutions derive from worn-out expressions. At best, these expressions are made totally new; at worst, they are derivative and formulaic. Although some designers would prefer to always answer the muse within, graphic design is the art of meeting challenges from without. “Today’s archetype was yesterday’s art form, day before yesterday’s cliché, and the day before that, it was the last word,” wrote Howard Gossage, an advertising executive. Only time determines the viability of a common design solution. So understanding how designers throughout history have solved basic conceptual problems validates the rationale that graphic design is a collection of familiar visual idioms and accents made new.

    (excerpt from Icons of Graphic Design by Steven Heller & Mirko Ilíc)

    13. 1 year ago  Notes (16) / design literacy graphic design
  13. We eat irony for breakfast.
    Mr. Keedy
    14. 1 year ago  Notes (10) / graphic design CalArts