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
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- 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
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- 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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- Author:
- Norberto Chaves
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- Ten principles of graphic design
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- Summarized version, as a decalogue.
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- Author:
- Erik Spiekermann
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- 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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- Luciano Cassisi
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- 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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- Erik Spiekermann
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- From the C-Word to the D-Word
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- Designers must take care of the words we use to talk about our work.
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- Author:
- Guillermo Dufranc
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- Minimalist Packaging
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- Minimalism requires to decide on what is really necessary from what is not.
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- Author:
- Fernando Rodríguez Álvarez
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- 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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- Author:
- Pablo Zarate
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- Design Manifesto
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- Ten principles that guide my daily design practice.
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- Author:
- Guillermo Dufranc
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- 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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- Author:
- Fernando Navia Meyer
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- Graphic design's carbon footprint
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- 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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- Author:
- Camilo A. Angulo
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- 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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- Author:
- Luciano Cassisi
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- Less is Less, More is More
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- The time is coming - to retire the nearly centenary motto «less is more».
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- Norberto Chaves
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- Design and message credibility
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- Communicates' design as a mean to the conquest of plausibility: sender and referent transparency.
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- Author:
- Marco Rinaldi
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- 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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- 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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- Author:
- Norberto Chaves
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- Don't Mess with My Design!
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- The interprofessional critique taboo: insecurity, paranoia and corporatism refuge.
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- Author:
- Manuel Guerrero
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- 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
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- 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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