What I Learned at DIGMA’s Design Means Business 2010
Last week, I had the fortune to attend the Design Industry Group of Massachusetts’ (DIGMA) Design Means Business event at Reebok’s headquarters in Canton, MA. The day was split up into three panel discussions on how design relates to better business; all of the speakers shared very engaging case studies and stories on this topic, [...]
Continue ReadingDesign and the NYC Subway Map
Following his extensive work on the New York City subway signage in the late 1960s, Massimo Vignelli, inspired by Harry Beck’s 1933 London Underground map, simplified New York’s tangled subway map into a clean, readable system. Idsgn writer Skylar examines Vignelli’s map and how the Metropolitan Transit Authority scrapped [...]
Continue ReadingQ&A: How can I market my in-house team?
I got an e-mail from a reader yesterday that asked me for advice on marketing her in-house design team. Unfortunately, she didn’t provide too many details on her exact situation, but thankfully there are a lot of ways to do this. The first thing to keep in mind is that generally, in-house creative services will be cheaper to your in-house [...]
Continue ReadingLessons Learned: The Corporate Creative
I’m pleased to announce that I just finished The Corporate Creative: Tips and Tactics for Thriving as an In-House Designer by Andy Epstein. I had the pleasure of attending two of Andy’s seminars at the 2009 HOW Design Conference in Austin, and it’s worth reporting that Andy is responsible for my current quest for knowledge [...]
Continue ReadingEvery Back to the Future Timeline in One Infographic
(Click to enlarge.) Via Sean Mort.
Continue ReadingWe New Englanders are a Cranky Bunch
Produced by the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University (my alma mater), and Harvard Medical School at Harvard University, the above infograph was built using over 300 million tweets and shows density-preserving cartograms for each hour of the day (EST), by U.S. state. According to this data, us New Englanders [...]
Continue ReadingHigh Life Upgraded
…comes from the Miller Brewing Company and Landor San Francisco. As much of a beer snob that I am, there’s nothing like a frosty High Life on a hot summer’s day, because sometimes a man just likes to kick back and relax with a cheap beer. Via the DieLine.
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