DesignContest.com Announces Exciting Re-launch of Popular Graphic Design Contest Website
Crowdsourcing Graphic Design Needs on DesignContest.com Gives Business Owners Access to Thousands of Experienced Designers and Hundreds of Unique Design Options to Choose From.
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DesignContest.com Announces Exciting Re-launch of Popular Graphic Design Contest Website
Crowdsourcing Graphic Design Needs on DesignContest.com Gives Business Owners Access to Thousands of Experienced Designers and Hundreds of Unique Design Options to Choose From. (PRWeb January 05, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/01/prweb4925694.htm
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Graphic Revenge: Parody NFL Logo Designs
Created by artist Jon Defreest these NFL parody designs won the Silver Award for Logo Design at the 2010 Hatch Awards in Boston. Available on t-shirts at Tauntr.com, a company that prides itself on “adding insult to everything”, these disturbing logos are an offbeat, original way to say “Your team sucks.” Miami Dolphin sushi, a stuffed [...]
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Pine Island Chamber selects new president
Pine Island – Marlene Caraballo, a marketing and graphic design professional, has been chosen by the Board of the Pine Island Chamber of Commerce to be the new president.
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DesignContest.com Announces Exciting Re-launch of Popular Graphic Design Contest Website
Crowdsourcing Graphic Design Needs on DesignContest.com Gives Business Owners Access to Thousands of Experienced Designers and Hundreds of Unique Design Options to Choose From.
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Evolvedesign roundtable 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 13 | Young Professionals Network
In the ’60s, graphic design changed the visual landscape. Fifty years later, the ground continues to shift. Will Minnesota remain a design center? AIGA Emerging Designers invites young design buffs to spend an evening with 13 leaders as they discuss where design was, is, and needs to go. This AIGA Minnesota Evolvedesign roundtable discussion will be moderated by Patrick Coyne, editor of …
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Vermont College of Fine Arts announces new hires
Tamar Diesendruck, a composer, will lead the new program in music composition. Matthew Monk, a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, will direct the new program in graphic design.
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After getting hammered by the economy, architecture and design firms finally are seeing an upside
In Memphis, the new president of American Institute of Architecture Memphis describes 2011 as a “fresh start” for his recession-battered field.
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Corbin Design Helps People Find their Way in Museums
TRAVERSE CITY, MICH.- “Where do we go from here?” It’s a question everyone asks – and it has a number of answers. If it’s a location you’re looking for, GPS, smart phones and OnStar will get you to the site – but even then, the question remains: “where do we go from here?”
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‘Green Patriots’ Get Straight to the Message with Enviro-Friendly Poster Art
Click images to enlarge. “Graphic design can pull together the zeitgeist,” says environmentalist activist and artist Ed Morris. “It can express what’s out there in terms of people’s feelings, but it can also shape people’s feelings. It can present an image to people that they can rally behind.” Morris, along with marketing maverick Dmitri Siegel, are the co-founders of Green Patriot Posters (or …
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Channel 4’s T4 in design overhaul
Channel 4’s youth programming series T4 will unveil a design overhaul tomorrow with a set of 20 new robot-themed idents and on-screen graphics by Double G Studios and set design by Rudi Thackray.
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GOOD Design Daily: Are Minimalist Brands the Future?
When these ” minimalist brands ” started popping up on the A2591 blog a few weeks ago, they seemed like a fun design exercise. The designers simply reduced familiar packaging to its bare essentials, taking colors and graphics away in a dramatic, three-step reveal. Some of the brands look especially sharp when reduced to a bare-bones execution; others are reduced to an almost unrecognizable state …
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The Consortium Design Agency Introduces Studio Herisson; Customizable On-Demand Wallpaper Collection Features …
Globally-recognized The Consortium Design Agency announces the launch of Studio Herisson, a revolution in interior design. Featuring progressive designs by a variety of graphic artists, Studio Herisson modernizes the wallpaper world by offering unique, affordable and on-demand customizable wallpaper.
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