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Design GuidelinesJuly 28 2009

Values and principles in Graphic Design.

I’m a passionate person. And not just the usual things—like when I scream at Barnsley F.C. for riding their luck one too many times on the pitch—but certain things in my life and my career (if you’d call it that). I can’t help it, certain things just really mean a lot to me.

I always knew I was a passionate person. Everyone knows in themselves when something is occurring that they simply don’t agree with, but not everyone acts upon these passions. Some are happy to let them go—for the greater good, maybe—where as others dig-in like an Alabama tick, and go for gold.

Until recently I believed I was the former, not so much a pushover but I didn’t feel I’d quite found the bravery to voice my opinions. That was until one recent airing in the studio was heard to be the last straw and I was handed the scribbled list you see below: the appetisingly titled ‘Craig’s Beef List’* (and more beautifully illustrated above—Luke, my boy).

As the list was handed to me, it came with the instruction to write upon it everything that I passionately disagreed with, or disliked. It was soon filled in.

However banterful the Beef List was, it did provoke the thought about principles within Design and Design pr

Public WorksJuly 27 2009

Public Works is a group show that features four artists who’ve spent years in Chicago working within the independent art and music communities: Cody Hudson, Justin Fines, Andy Mueller, and Chris Eichenseer. Longtime friends, the four men have parlayed their street-level art styles into careers as internationally recognized graphic designers. The new pieces presented in Public Works are wholly representative of the dual-influences of fine and commercial art in the artists’ lives, the gallery covered in an egalitarian display of screenprints, a digital pastiche of color blocks, Greco-Roman statues, sardonic portrait photography and Dungeons and Dragons references. Accompanying the new work is a wall thick with retrospective rock posters, album covers and street images that bump and overlap, a physical manifestation of the artists’ intertwined pasts and common futures.

Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago
July 31st – August 29th
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Tech WrapJuly 27 2009

The talented crew at fragment design have designed a yummy looking Tech Wrap that will allow you to wrap and protect pretty much any tech gadget. Coming soon to the honeyee.store in three hot colorways. I’m so there…

Via honeyee

Meet Craig OldhamJuly 23 2009

Craig Oldham is one of those people that you are happy to have stumble into your life. Craig is a talented guy whose honesty and passion for his craft are a daily inspiration. I first learned of his work when I posted about 12 in 12 on Thinking for a Living and have since had the pleasure of forming a friendship with him.

Craig is a graduate of University College Falmouth where he continues to lecture today. He went on to be recognized as part of the D&AD New Blood exhibition which led him to his first job as a designer at The Chase. In 2009 he decided to work with the talented crew at Manchester-based Design By Music who designed the cover of the August issue of Creative Review. In his spare time, Craig lectures and writes about design for publications such as Creative Review, Eye and Grafik magazine. His work has been recognized by the

HelveticonsJuly 22 2009

Helveticons is the obvious name for a versatile set of 245 royalty-free vector icons, glyphs and symbols based on the Helvetica Bold typeface. With an emphasis on usability and customization, the icons come in seven file formats of which six are in scalable vector format.