Author: Naomi Kasa
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Making Better Visuals For Teaching: Resources and Tips
A list of resources for the participants in my “Design for Faculty” presentation at the 2013 Vanguard University Faculty gathering.
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Featured Designer: Darren Firth
Darren Firth is a UK-based designer, art director and curator. He does beautiful identity work and web design with an emphasis on immaculate use of space and clean minimalism.
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Quote of the Week: 6.25.12
The design business continues to navel gaze. Designers are still designing for other designers rather than working to convince the business world of the importance of design in our everyday lives. -Joe Duffy \ Duffy & Partners
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Hand-Lettered Title Design: Agatha Christie’s Marple
If you are a reader of fiction, and enjoy a good mystery now and again, it is likely that you have run across the massive oeuvre of Agatha Christie at some point in your reading career. I remember discovering her at the public library when I was 9 or 10. They had five shelves of…
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Academia and the Marketplace
“It is important to remember that academia is not a marketplace.” The accomplished German designer Florian Pfeffer, who is also the head of the graduate program at one of Germany’s premier design schools, made this statement while presenting at a symposium held at OTIS College of Art & Design this June.
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Welcome to the Experiment…
Hello friends. This is my new experiment–to see if I can create a space for all those ideas I usually keep to myself. My career interests in film and new media have, over the course of the last few years, necessitated a shift in thinking towards a more interdisciplinary approach to my craft.