Articles on Graphic Design
Thoughts, case studies, book reviews, debates and tips on Graphic Design, written by prominent authors and carefully edited by FOROALFA.
- Author:
- Camilo A. Angulo
- Title:
- The Roots of Industrial Design Colleges in Colombia
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- Looking back from two theories about its origin.
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- Author:
- Milton Glaser
- Title:
- Ten Things I Have Learned
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- I'm sharing some things I've learned over the years, which have much to do with what we, the designers, do.
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- 555
- Author:
- Norberto Chaves
- Title:
- Ten principles of graphic design
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- Summarized version, as a decalogue.
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- 3323
- Author:
- Erik Spiekermann
- Title:
- Logos to Go
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- Corporate identity design is changing. There are designers for whom quantity matters more than quality.
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- Author:
- Luciano Cassisi
- Title:
- Logo Functions
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- Not all logos are used for the same purposes. Knowing in detail the functions that they must fulfill, is essential to design them well.
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- Author:
- Erik Spiekermann
- Title:
- From the C-Word to the D-Word
- Synopsis:
- Designers must take care of the words we use to talk about our work.
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- 377
- Author:
- Guillermo Dufranc
- Title:
- Minimalist Packaging
- Synopsis:
- Minimalism requires to decide on what is really necessary from what is not.
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- 466
- Author:
- Fernando Rodríguez Álvarez
- Title:
- The citizen designer
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- In the dark days that live Mexico, emerges a discussion about how designers get involved with social conflicts.
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- 213
- Author:
- Camilo A. Angulo
- Title:
- Green Models in Classroom
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- Design teachers must spread pedagogical processes for a green world to reduce the impact of our academic exercises on the local environment.
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- 204
- Author:
- Luciano Cassisi
- Title:
- Less is Less, More is More
- Synopsis:
- The time is coming - to retire the nearly centenary motto «less is more».
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- Author:
- Marco Rinaldi
- Title:
- Are we destined to fail as entrepreneurs?
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- The growing number of creative professionals that venture into entrepreneurship raises doubts and concern.
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- 73
- Author:
- Norberto Chaves
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- Design and message credibility
- Synopsis:
- Communicates' design as a mean to the conquest of plausibility: sender and referent transparency.
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- Author:
- Fernando Navia Meyer
- Title:
- Graphic design's carbon footprint
- Synopsis:
- Carbon footprint is defined as the total amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse effect gases, bound to a product or service.
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- 121
- Author:
- Norberto Chaves
- Title:
- Don't Mess with My Design!
- Synopsis:
- The interprofessional critique taboo: insecurity, paranoia and corporatism refuge.
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- Author:
- Guillermo Dufranc
- Title:
- Healthy Food has Changed Packaging Design
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- Since nutritional information became important and popular concern about it grew dramatically, many food brands have foreseen this as an opportunity to build their identity.
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- 466
- Author:
- Norberto Chaves
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- Corporate Brand: Selling a Design or Transfering a Resource?
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- The advantage of agreeing with the client the sectorial diagnostic and the typological selection before proceeding to the brand's design.
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- 3323
- Author:
- Manuel Guerrero
- Title:
- Graphic Design New Fields
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- Macro-trends and behavior patterns allow to visualize new fields of action for graphic design in the future.
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- Author:
- Joan Costa
- Title:
- Birth and Evolution of the Brand in 7 Steps
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- The commercial brand was born 3500 years ago.First it was a sign, then a meaning, later a TV story in 30 seconds. Today, it is a complex social and transmedial phenomenon.
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- Author:
- Norberto Chaves
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- Every trademark must be...
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- Twelve supposedly «universal» rules in designing trademarks.
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- 3323
- Author:
- Daniela Del Pino
- Title:
- Branding types
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- Branding is connected with brand image, positioning and reputation. It is the result of an endless list of marketing and design strategies.
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- Author:
- Jorge Del Toro
- Title:
- What Does My Design Communicate?
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- Bad communication is a problem that we experience every day. Design plays an important role in communication and should be congruent.
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- 24
- Author:
- Victor Garcia
- Title:
- Design on the Edge
- Synopsis:
- Marcos García is a talented Argentinean graphic designer and illustrator who uses cutter instead of pencil to produce his amazing designs.
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- 191
- Author:
- Guillermo Dufranc
- Title:
- The Rise of Craft Beer
- Synopsis:
- Craft beers are opting for innovative designs, focusing more on communicating their quality and craftsmanship than denote European tradition.
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- 466
- Author:
- Jorge Luis Muñoz
- Title:
- Social design cases
- Synopsis:
- Social design as a part of graphic design is not only a matter of concepts; it is fundamentally awareness on what is designed and what is done.
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- Author:
- Lorena Garcia Hidalgo
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- Why Does the Client Think Different?
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- When a client rejects our work is usually because we do not take their opinion into account. We think that it is only us, the designers, who have the knowlegde.
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- Author:
- Guillermo Dufranc
- Title:
- Strategy and Creativity are Part of Design
- Synopsis:
- Though it sounds quite obvious, to start any design process it is necessary analysis and strategic thinking.
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- 466
- Author:
- Victor Garcia
- Title:
- Zootype: Is It a Case of Typographic Latin American Amnesia?
- Synopsis:
- Zootype is, perhaps, the first Latin American font awarded at an international contest, a fact that is often forgotten in regional historic reports.
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- 191
- Author:
- Fernando Del Vecchio
- Title:
- A passion for design
- Synopsis:
- Who doesn't want to feel passion for what he or she likes, and loves?
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- Author:
- Rossy L. Jiménez González
- Title:
- Graphic Design Students Have No Holiday Season
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- It's not easy being a designer. It involves sacrificing so many things, among them, to be working at all times, because for a designer, what is «holidays season»?
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- Author:
- Norberto Chaves
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- A “graphic Houdini”
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- The combined role of programmatic restrictions and creativity in the accomplishment of message effectiveness.
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- Author:
- Norberto Chaves
- Title:
- With or Without a Logo-Symbol
- Synopsis:
- A brand choice conditioned by the profile of the organization and its communication.
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- Author:
- Soledad Dias
- Title:
- Learning, the Hard Way
- Synopsis:
- My first steps as an independent graphic designer. Mistakes and some useful tips.
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- Author:
- Sebastian Guerrini
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- I am designer anthropologist
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- My job, to design brands for clients who have an international projection, led me to do a different activity from the one of the traditional designer.
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- Author:
- Erik Spiekermann
- Title:
- The Seventh Commandment
- Synopsis:
- The tribute, robbery and theft of authorship, have blurred boundaries in the design practice.
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