In 1946, Harper, responsible for creating the iconic Marshmallow sofa, designed the logo that the company uses to this day. [Editor’s note: The following is republished from WHY, a new digital platform from Herman Miller.] Imagining a sheet of paper as a building site will give you a good sense for Irving Harper’s approach to graphic design. As the Swiss magazine Graphis noted in a 1953 survey of his print work for the Nelson Office, it’s an approach not dissimilar to that of an architect. “The page on which to print is regarded as a site on which to build…pictorial material, often broken into fragments, is organized by asymmetrical harmonies.”Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'
[ Fast Company | 2013-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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By Denis Wilson It's not uncommon for sister publications within a publishing company to partner on issues or share content. For its October issue, Wired collaborated with fellow Condé Nast title bon appétit on... Continue reading at Publishing Executive
[ Publishing Executive | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'To Kill a Mockingbird' author Harper Lee alleges that her hometown is exploiting her trademark and personality rights. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fabian Stelzer, EyeQuant's CEO, believes there's a science to how we view the Web. Whether on desktops or on mobile, whether we're male or female, young or old, our eyes will be drawn to certain common elements of web design–– a combination of contrasts, locations, contours and colors. Stelzer's... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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• During her tenure, total annual revenue increased by 95 percent. • Oversaw print paging increase by 43 percent. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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We've all talked about an Internet of things, but there are huge bottlenecks––like the fact that our battery technology is stagnant, and mining all that lithium is horrible for our environment. So long as battery technology continues to be so disappointing, the design of our future will suffer.... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For professional looking design, Adobe Creative Suite products such as InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop are feature-rich tools you can use to create stunning projects. But using them isn’t cheap. Creative Cloud, which gives you Web access to these software offerings is $50 a month, and even... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The winner of the MacLehose Press Design competition has been announced, with Coral McCloud... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Slate has rolled out its most expansive redesign in the pure-play publication's 17-year history. The new Slate.com leverages responsive design and several new content features for its 17-plus million unique monthly visitors. Some of the new content features Slate is introducing include: Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kidd designed some of the most iconic book covers in circulation, and now he wants to impart lessons to youngsters. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2013-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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We swear, we won't be giving you the blow-by-blow on every single app that gets updated for iOS 7 today, but this one seemed like a biggie. Amazon just announced that its Kindle reader for iOS has received a major redesign, with fonts, menus and other details retooled to match the flat,... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Most efforts to explain design at Apple end up reducing a complex 37–year history to bromides about simplicity, quality, and perfection––as if those were ambitions unique to Apple alone. So Fast Company set out to remedy that deficiency through an oral history of Apple's design, a decoding of... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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UBM Tech brings together communities who buy, sell and build technology. At the center of this strategy is our audience: The tech professionals changing our world. We see technology and media as inextricably intertwined and there is not an area of our business that is not touched by technology. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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InfiniScroll, populated by a winding parade of creatures with tails and tales, is an upgrade for child and parent. A favorite tale of children’s book publishers and parenting blogs is set in a land not so far away, where the evil e-reader is a slayer of the bedtime story. In another version... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new bi-annual publication dedicated to the unpaid workforce looks anything but entry-level. Intern magazine marks a new meta-high in the publishing industry: Unpaid interns who work in media are paying plenty of attention to a media launch dedicated to unpaid interns. If you had to think... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Leaked photos of the next e-reader to join the Kobo family have appeared online today, and from the looks of it, the company isn't out to reinvent the wheel. We rummaged around in the FCC filings to confirm that it'll come with a 6-inch screen and a 1,500mAh battery, which bests the 1,000mAh one... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The imprint, titled Jet City Comics, released its first title, a work named 'Symposium #1," on July 9. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Neil Jamieson, a Time Inc. vet and a big figure in the magazine design world, has left to join design studio Joe Zeff Design to be the studio's first creative director. Jamieson most recently was design director of Money, whose tablet edition was a National Magazine Award finalist this year. He... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The app won’t die. Despite the recent flood of attention to responsive Web design, with its promise to provide users a consistent experience across devices, publishers—even the most progressive—remain committed to stand-alone mobile apps. Take BuzzFeed. The social news site would seem a likely... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Richard Matheson, who was 87, has died at home. His family announced his passing in a protected Facebook post; the news was shared by publisher Tor/Forge.Author Richard Matheson, who was 87, has died at home. His family announced his passing in a protected Facebook post; the news was... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This Kickstarter tries to answer the question of why--in a world of digital media--kids in the developing world don’t have access to books. When Rebecca McDonald moved to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, she wasn’t a career humanitarian. Her most recent job was overseeing construction... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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