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What do eyeglasses and textiles have in common?

Online designer eyewear boutique Warby Parker has been getting lots of press lately, thanks mostly to their stylish frames. What I’m even more excited about, however, is their rebellious business model. More

Direction vs. prescription

By Gina

So a friend of mine who is a fellow designer forwarded me an email. It was a request – excuse me – a demand for a new logo design. Some of the details have been changed to protect the innocent and make the guilty harder to identify, but it pretty much went like this… More

Bright Lights

By Yang

At the AIGA Bright Lights event in April, I was fortunate to see my long-time mentor and friend Steve Frykholm receive THE most important honor that a designer can get. More

With Tough Love, Your College Professor

By Michele

For the past few weeks I’ve been tidying up my office at the end of every day just in case I don’t come back for another 10 weeks. Some might call it nesting. I call it being considerate of my colleagues who might need to sift through my things while I’m away on maternity leave. More

The Impact of Color and Texture on Design

By Sharon

Everyday we view what seem to be dimensional objects on flat surfaces. Whether we are looking at a digital screen or printed surface we rarely think about the fact that the effect of dimension is created by a dot or pixel of flat color, and that when placed in relation to other flat colors they create the illusion of dimension and shape. More