Mike Monteiro is helping bring to light that fact that graphic/web design is an ‘unprofessional profession’ (to steal a poignant phrase from Andy Rutledge). How is it that, nearly a century after the formation of the AIGA, designers still don’t know what they’re doing and why?
More ›I spend a lot of time reading design magazines, books, and blogs; graphic design, industrial design, architecture, interaction design – all manner of producing things and places of style, of expression, and for use by people. It’s a very convenient confluence of professional, academic, and personal interest – I’m a very lucky person because I […]
More ›I can’t remember who put me on to this, or if I discovered it myself, or if I heard about it on what was then CBCRadio3’s college radio-esque late night programming on Radio1 – whatever it was, I am truly thankful. I’m talkin’ about CBCRadio3 Magazine, quite possibly one of the most beautiful multimedia amalgamations of Canadian […]
More ›I don’t like to say that I ‘hate’ things. It’s too harsh, and usually not true. I personally think it’s impossible for someone to truly believe that something can have utterly no redeeming quality or benefit at all, no matter how narrow the circumstance – or perhaps furthermore that something is so universally vile that the world would only […]
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