From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Color Trends: Orange Is the New Pink

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On the evening before during the meeting of a creative team I’m leading, one team member made the statement that orange is a hideous color and no one likes it, so therefore it would not be appropriate used in the particular identity program we were discussing. Having observed varieties of orange in common used, I [...]

David: Start to Finish

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This is the concept rough from my sketchbook, which is not finished enough to be considered a comp, and the finished artwork. The illustration was created in watercolor, gouache and colored pencil, on Arches 140#. Most depictions of David, the hero king of Israel in the Old Testament, show him fighting Goliath of Gath. A [...]

How Do You Define Design?

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Toward the end of my design fundamentals course I generally ask my students how they, having gone through the process of learning design principles and applying them to a variety of projects, would define design. Here are the responses from several who recently completed the course: Design is the process of externalizing many possible solutions [...]