From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Green Graphic Design

Green Graphic Design

Review by Virginia Sasser
We know that sustainability is an urgent design issue, despite the fact that some of us are tired of mainstream “greenness” blanketing our consumer landscape with tree frogs and leaf icons. But are we as designers aware of all the realistic ecological options that exist in our field? Doing the right thing [...]

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Glimmer

Glimmer

Review by David Sherwin
The further I’ve progressed in my career as designer, the harder it’s become to share with others exactly what I do.
First, I managed layout at a magazine and bootstrapped a few websites in thrilling Adobe PageMill. Then, within a design studio, I was responsible for creating brands and annual reports—with little [...]

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[Sponsor] An Event Apart San Francisco

An Event Apart

My thanks to An Event Apart San Francisco for sponsoring The Designer’s Review of Books again through October.
The list of speakers is long, but Dave Shea’s They’re Letting Designers Code Now? and Facebook’s Product Design Manager Julie Zhuo on Design Lessons From 300 Million look particularly provocative.
If you’d like to sponsor The Designer’s Review of [...]

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Meggs’ History of Graphic Design

Meggs\’ History of Graphic Design

Review by Patrick Holt
Because the design industry is populated not only by the well-educated, but also by the self-taught and the self-tutored-after-a-mediocre-education (I fall into the latter), it’s likely that many of us missed an opportunity to read Philip Meggs’ A History of Graphic Design (Amazon: US|CA|UK
|DE), now in its fourth edition, during our formative [...]

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