Most important things happen at a table. Food, friends, discussion, ideas, work, peace talks, and war plans. It is okay to romanticize things a little bit every now and then: it gives you hope.
— Take a few minutes to read Frank Chimero’s advice to a graphic design student in its entirety. Plenty of sage advice and wit. I like the closing line: “This about sums up everything I know.”
There are other books about HTML5, and there will be many more. … But this is a book for you — you who create web content, who mark up web pages for sense and semantics, and who design accessible interfaces and experiences.
— Jeffrey Zeldman introduces the first publication from his new imprint, A Book Apart. HTML5 for Web Designers, written by Jeremy Keith and designed by co-founder Jason Santa Maria, is “your user guide to HTML5. Its goal … is to shed clear light on a tricky subject, and do it fast, so you can get back to work”. Ordered.
Alex Cornell’s student project to rebrand Playboy magazine for his Nature of Identity course at the Academy of Art University:
The final deliverable for the class was a book in which we the explain history of the brand, walk through our rationale for the new identity, explore the process of the logo development, present brand standards and guidelines, and show example brand implementations and extensions.
Plenty more photos (NSFW) and a complete write-up are on Scott Hansen’s ISO50 blog where Alex is a regular contributor.
Handle With Care, a 2009 short film by Asim Zaidi and collaborators at Sheridan College in Ontario. Pretty polished for student work.
Harvard Review redesign by Alex Camlin. (via Nicholas Felton)
Jason Santa Maria’s latest post on career paths and our continued quest to be “good at art”.
