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- Sep 3, 2015
- 2 min
San Francisco’s September of Love (Or Something)
As your eyes get used to the fluorescent green and purple, let’s take a trip down memory lane to the second AIGA national conference in San Francisco on Sept. 5, 1987. It was divided into three sections with as many curators, each addressing topics according to Present, Past and Future. I was curator for Past (although it was so long ago that I cannot recall the content). I forget who handled the future (which probably is past by now), but Tibor Kalman was ringmaster of the p
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- Mar 26, 2015
- 2 min
Should Designers Plunder the Past?
Spring 2015 issue of Print, Rick Poynor addresses the problems associated with repurposing vintage imagery in design today—and discusses the Print article “Good History/Bad History,” which ran in 1991. Poynor notes, “If the magazine were ever to produce an anthology of its most significant writing, this trenchant, multiauthored polemic by Tibor Kalman, J. Abbott Miller and Karrie Jacobs—originally written for Kalman to present at one of Steven Heller’s era-defining ‘Modernism
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- Jun 4, 2010
- 1 min
A New Identity
A few years ago I made the transition from all-purpose graphic designer to information designer. I have no regrets about this decision, and frequently stumble upon signposts from my bookshelf or memory that support this choice. I think that there are amazing things being done in this field every day, but so much of my inspiration comes from a time before I was a contributor to the the field. So to kick things off, I thought I would share one of these signposts… my favorite pa
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