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Staying power

Yesterday, Fast Company’s Co.Design blog wrote a nice entry about our website for Herman Miller called Discovering Design. The site is several years old, but it’s a good testament to the staying power of good design - the website, but of course the products themselves. More

Off-season awards

By Yang

Who says winning awards gets old? It always feels good. We’re happy to say that we’ve been kicking some butt in this arena recently – and it’s not even awards season. In the Creativity 38 Annual Awards competition, we have 12 award-winning projects, five of which won a Silver, three Gold, and one Platinum. More

Social Media for Business: Customer Service

By Scott

There have been a number of interesting posts lately on ReadWriteWeb regarding the puzzle of Social Media for Business. Businesses have only begun to take advantage of the capabilities of social media tools to empower communications to their customers. More

Design for a Cause

By Adam

Graphic designers design for many reasons. Because it’s a job for a lot of us, we design for the client and their customers, and their respective needs. Some of us design for personal reasons — flyers for a friend’s band or cookbooks for your wife’s grandma. More

printfreegraphpaper.com

By Julie

I didn’t grow up with the Internet. It came after most of my learning habits had been wired in. But once I had access, I never looked back. More

Teaching the Web Stuff

By John

A few years ago I spent some time teaching Web design at Kendall College of Art & Design. This is a rough transcript of the lecture I used on the first day of each semester. It was designed to give a brief overview of the technologies, introduce some new concepts to the students, and scare as many as possible into dropping the class… Hello. More

Immersed

By Sharon

A while ago, a colleague with a strong background in interactive design and user experience suggested that I attend An Event Apart in New Orleans with some of his team members. I had mentioned to him that I wanted to learn more about the Web; he suggested I dive right in. From a communications standpoint, I was looking for ways to utilize online tools to help clients get their message out. More

Do your friends know what you do for a living?

By Sharon

It’s a standing joke around here when family visits a coworker or newcomers excitedly tell their parents they got a job in a design firm. Inevitably the next question is, “Do they really know what you do?” You usually get that sideways smirk with a negative nod and within minutes people are sharing their own stories. Comments like, “You draw pictures right?” or “I know, you make things on the computer,” aren’t uncommon at all. More

MC reports on Zeldman

By Kevin

Original author Marie-Claire Camp Marie Claire and half of our interaction team are attending An Event Apart, down in New Orleans. This dispatch was the first in… We just attended the first presentation here, Jeffery Zeldman’s Understanding Web Design, he’s shared his presentation, and it was really good, he’s decided to share it with attendees, so ask me, if you want to see it. My notes: More