From the monthly archives:

December 2008

Winner of For The Love of Vinyl Competition

The For The Love of Vinyl competition has a winner.
What a difficult choice! They were all good suggestions and I was impressed by Colin and Gregory’s analysis of the several covers they chose. Loved Matt’s ELO, Out of the Blue choice for the childhood flashback it gave me (actually rifling through my brother’s albums).
Thank you [...]

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Coming Up in 2009

Apart from announcing the winner of the For The Love of Vinyl competition, we will be taking a some time off over the holiday season. This might mean some comments take a while to get through moderation, unless you are a regular commenter in which case you will go straight through.
We will, of course, carry [...]

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Uncredited: Graphic Design & Opening Titles in Movies

Before motion graphics there was broadcast graphic design and before that title design for film. It is a vibrant area of design that has remained strangely undocumented. Most designers will know of the legendary Saul Bass, but many other title designers remain unknown.
Uncredited: Graphic Design & Opening Titles in Movies by Gemma Solana and Antonio [...]

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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

Guest Review by Max Gadney

Architecture is a discipline that draws together principles typical of many design disciplines – clients, briefs, research, materials, form and function. Added to this mix is permanence, history and scale, which has made architecture arguably one of the most intellectualised design disciplines.
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick [...]

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Win a Copy of For the Love of Vinyl

The holidays are nearly here and the DRB will be, well, catching up with some holiday reading.

As Christmas is also the time of goodwill and generosity we are giving away a copy of the superb book, For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis, that we reviewed last week because we liked it [...]

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Three Books on Colour – Part One: Kelvin: Colour Today

Books on colour must be the new black. We were sent two in a row recently – Kelvin: Colour Today and An Eye for Color. We decided to do a series over the next month or two and include Victoria Finlay’s Color: A Natural History of the Palette. Part One starts with Kelvin: Colour Today.

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For The Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis

For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell is quite simply the most engaging and entertaining design book I have read all year. But I am getting ahead of myself. To understand why this book hits all the right sweet spots, we have to travel back in [...]

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Coroflot 8th Design Salary Survey

A quick note to say that Coroflot’s 8th Annual Design Salary Survey closes December 10th and they need as much data as they can get, especially for Design Management. It’s confidential, so go tell them how filthy rich (or cleanly poor) you are.

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Universal Principles of Design

Reviewed by Rob Tannen.
Although Universal Principles of Design was published in 2003, I am embarrassed to admit that I only learned about it several years later via Amazon’s related books feature. Embarrassed, because it is simply the best book I have read on general design and usability principles in terms of both its content and [...]

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How do you design?

Hugh Dubberly from Dubberly Design Studios is writing a book called How Do You Design?, which examines design processes that they have collected over the years. The premise is that, “Everyone designs. The teacher arranging desks for a discussion. The entrepreneur planning a business. The team building a rocket.”
Like everything good online, the book is [...]

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