Posted By: Craig A Elimeliah
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, July 21, 2006
Designers must once again take a leap of faith and prepare themselves for the new demands of the next generation of the web.
Posted By: Craig A Elimeliah
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, February 24, 2006
Playing the role of producer and designer can be a hard act to juggle.
Posted By: Craig A Elimeliah
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, January 13, 2006
This is a short essay on the fine line between an artist and a designer.
Posted By: Alissa Walker
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, December 30, 2005
Recently, AIGA officially began positioning itself as “AIGA, the professional association for design.” What does this mean for AIGA membership and the design community? AIGA’s storyteller, Alissa Walker, spells out the thinking behind the shift in positioning, and why it’s still AIGA.
Posted By: Robert L. Peters
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Monday, November 14, 2005
This article draws from the book Worldwide Identity published in October 2005 by Rockport in partnership with Icograda.
Posted By: Blair Enns
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Thursday, July 21, 2005
Understanding why clients ask for it is the first step to understanding the powerful alternatives to spec creative
Posted By: Tom Klinkowstein
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Saturday, May 07, 2005
Networks, magnified in importance by technology, have become an important factor in the life of the graphic designer.
Posted By: Leslie Burns-Dell'Acqua
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Creative industries are under threat from lowballers and companies that exploit them. Some suggestions to fight this trend.
Posted By: Todd M Bertsch
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Saturday, December 11, 2004
This article was written to remind designers why it's good to be a graphic designer in this day and age.
Posted By: Adelheid Christian-Zechner
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, September 28, 2004
As a designer, teacher and information architect I have been working for the Uruguyan Rafael Vinoly.
Posted By: Robert Jonathan Bennett
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Designer's in corporate America face an issue of being misunderstood. Can this problem be overcome?
Posted By: Martha Retallick
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Think that studying advanced mathematics isn't relevant to a design career? Think again!
Posted By: Marty Neumeier
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Wednesday, April 07, 2004
The design world is changing once again. It is now in the midst of the network economy evolution and Neumeier offers his Darwinian view of design, business, and brand.
Posted By: Eva Doman Bruck
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
No matter the size of the organization, it is most likely to enjoy long-term success when there is detailed, up-to-date information available on its consumption of resources translated into financial terms.
Posted By: Don Sparkman
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
In this age of ever-changing design, what applies to one kind of company may not fit another.
Posted By: Roger Whitehouse
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
In those days, whenever you started work for a client you simply reached for an RIBA or AIA standard form of agreement, scribbled in a few numbers, and away you went.
Posted By: Emily Ruth Cohen
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
To satisfy the need for a friendlier and condensed alternative to the AIGA?s existing Standard Form of Agreement for Graphic Design Services, the AIGA is pleased to launch a new, shorter document entitled The AIGA Standard Terms and Conditions for Designer/Client Relationships.
Posted By: David Baker, Principal, ReCourses, Inc.
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
Do you have a formal feedback program in place? It?s critical to know what your clients think about you and, even more important, what they say about you, since this will inevitably spread to prospects and other clients.
Posted By: David Baker, Principal, ReCourses, Inc.
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
How is it that certain leaders motivate you and others do not? This is particularly an interesting question within the marketing communications industry, which tends to attract independent-minded leaders...and followers.
Posted By: Emily Ruth Cohen
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
Although the professional flexibility can be rewarding, devising a consistent payment strategy can be another matter altogether.
Posted By: Leonard DuBoff
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
Every graphic design business has an optimal structure that will provide it with the maximum possible benefits. These may include tax benefits, protection from liability, continuity of existence, and the like.
Posted By: Tad Crawford
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
This chapter on copyright and licensing is an appropriate introduction to the section on rights. This section tries to cover the most important intellectual property issues that the graphic designer may confront.
Posted By: Judy Kirpich, Sam Shelton, and Ann Willoughby
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
Take the spec work challenge and put your two cents in as to whether grub and ethics can really live in harmony.
Posted By: Leonard DuBoff
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
Trademark law was once thought to be important and relevant only to a select group of persons or corporations whose legal interests were handled by specialists
Posted By: Shel Perkins
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
Professional design firms present unusual organizational and management challenges. How do we support something as intangible as creativity? How do we stabilize something in constant motion?
Posted By: Colin Forbes
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
Most design firms whether graphic, product, or architectural, have grown from the creative and entrepreneurial energy of an individual or two or three partners. Historically, only one or two out of thousands of firms have ever continued into a second generation.
Posted By: AIGA
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
Fonts are creative, intellectual property, similar to designers' creative work or a proprietary business product. Since type seems so ubiquitous and fonts are so easy to share among computer users, the legal and moral issues of the simple process of using a font are often overlooked.
Posted By: AIGA
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
AIGA is interested in encouraging the use of original illustration in design solutions. Illustration can provide a unique sensibility to certain projects.This brochure offers insight into professional practices and ethical considerations within the illustration community.
Posted By: Monona Rossol
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
Processes used in graphic and commercial art include computer graphics design, illustration, and photo processes, and paste up of mechanicals.
Posted By: David Baker, Principal, ReCourses, Inc.
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
Using a database of 280+ firms in 84 different metropolitan areas across North America, what are the three things that these principals struggle with the most? You might recognize yourself.
Posted By: David Baker, Principal, ReCourses, Inc.
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
Wouldn?t it be interesting to know what personality traits are common to the principals of those firms that are successful?
Posted By: David Baker, Principal, ReCourses, Inc.
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
The reason firms fail is not creativity, location, or the marketplace. It?s management ability. Here are the most common 12 mistakes we see creative service firms make.
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