You must be doing something right if you release a product that is radically different from all your competitors products, and then they all immediately start copying you, and badly at that. (via BuzzFeed)
Sagmeister’s new logo for Casa Da Música.
Well the second issue of A Brief Message is out already and it’s getting a ton of buzz. I love the format, and the dynamic layouts, although I can’t help wanting more than 200 words. But maybe I’ve been reading too much of the New Yorker lately.
Icon Magazine collects manifestos from 50 designers including Bruce Mau, John Maeda and this perfect nugget from Peter Saville: Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
The New York Times slide show on ClearView.
Hillarious.
X & Y, an exhibition at SVA of sculpture and paintings that use the grid as the primary structural element.
AIGA New York’s new site looks great. You can definitely see Khoi Vinh’s influence.
Typographica’s Favorite Fonts of 2006
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. I am a graphic designer specializing in interactive design, information architecture, user-interface design, and front-end development. I’m currently employed full time as the lead designer for BuzzFeed in New York City.
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