Page 2 - Articles of interest for the Graphic Design area

Jorge Illich Carpinteyro Design Contests Contests aren't the cause of the main structural problems of the design profession, but an excellent reflection of such problems.

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José Antonio Giménez Recipe book to get over the crisis with design Professionals from 14 countries give their opinions and reflections about the profession and its relation with businesses and society.

Martha Gutiérrez Miranda Design and intelligence development Human beings are born with several potentialities marked by genetics; nevertheless, today we know that we can develop some others through certain stimulus, like design.

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Eric Barajas (Snok Daffy) Designing for Restaurants If you ever have the fortune of working for a restaurant, you will have to think in a different way.

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Rodolfo Álvarez Accomplice Design or Ethical Design How long are the designers going to keep collaborating with a system which leads us to an Earth disaster?

Fernando Del Vecchio Innovation on Design Is Not Inside Design Nowadays, is common to listen in almost every conversation “innovation” term. Everything must be “innovative”. However, innovation is not the same for everyone.

Ana Yago Sundays Smell of Roast Chicken The least one can ask of a chair is for it to be functional and ergonomic but these qualities no longer suffice Today a chair will have to adjust to the shifting tastes of society

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Carlos Rioja Vindicating Handwriting Design is often associated with normalization and sterilization. But handwriting is still a good way to reconnect with our roots and recover vitality.

Juanjo Junoy To Think, Feel and Do: Three Clues to Perception Understanding how our perception works and how it affects us is the clue to produce really effective messages, not just award-winning ones.

Pablo Bertero Creative Myopia The lack of strategic thinking in design and creativity proposals leads indirectly to the standardization of creative results.

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Victor Garcia Kusi Kusi: Identity as a (regrettable) ‘State affair’ A recognized puppet theater from Lima, multi-award winning internationally, active for half a century, is claiming against Channel 7 TV Perust for usurping their brand.

Ricardo Rangel Creation as the Human Essence In a world surrounding us with material, creation has become part of our essence, a key piece in the evolution of mankind.

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Carla Santana Posada Beyond La Catrina A century since his death, José Guadalupe Posada left a wide heritage, not only engravings and skull, but he was a pioneer of editorial and graphic design in México.

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Marco Rinaldi Management vs. Leadership We don't need to manage the present but we should lead the future.

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Fernando Del Vecchio About Effectiveness Being efficacious entails doing the right things; being efficient, doing them correctly. Being effective means being efficacious and efficient.

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Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero Forum, “Fuero” and “Foras”! On the shared construction of a design without geographical, academic or professional boundaries.

José Antonio Giménez Ave, Caesar, Morituri Te Salutant The values and sensations that used to be conveyed through the physical characteristics of the medium should not be replaced by a void now.

Julio Broca Image as idea, graphic and message What is an image? How is it conceived? How is it part of a message?

Camilo A. Angulo The Roots of Industrial Design Colleges in Colombia Looking back from two theories about its origin.

Manuel Guerrero Graphic Design New Fields Macro-trends and behavior patterns allow to visualize new fields of action for graphic design in the future.

Sebastian Guerrini I am designer anthropologist 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.

Hector Bruguera Being a new rockstar of design Can future designers create a sustainable personal image on any scenario that the market might present?

Guillermo Dufranc Argentine Wine Needs Concept In the competitive wine market the need to communicate concepts through label design is essential. Labels must capture the consumers’ attention and seduce them.

André Ricard The capacity of visualizing The essential of designing resides on the ability to imagine how things will work before they materialize.

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Camilo A. Angulo Green Models in Classroom Design teachers must spread pedagogical processes for a green world to reduce the impact of our academic exercises on the local environment.

Rossy L. Jiménez González Graphic Design Students Have No Holiday Season 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»?

Daniela Del Pino Branding types Branding is connected with brand image, positioning and reputation. It is the result of an endless list of marketing and design strategies.

Lorena Garcia Hidalgo Why Does the Client Think Different? 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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Victor Garcia Zootype: Is It a Case of Typographic Latin American Amnesia? Zootype is, perhaps, the first Latin American font awarded at an international contest, a fact that is often forgotten in regional historic reports.

Guillermo Dufranc Strategy and Creativity are Part of Design Though it sounds quite obvious, to start any design process it is necessary analysis and strategic thinking.

Sebastián Vivarelli Making a Living as a Designer Why designers'compensation continues to be so low? A question that still calling for an answer.

David Gallo Planned Obsolescence Design should no longer respond to market interests anymore, but to the human needs that as a global community we have created as time goes by.

Soledad Dias Learning, the Hard Way My first steps as an independent graphic designer. Mistakes and some useful tips.

André Ricard The ornaments An incitement to reconsider the role of the ornament on design works.

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Mario Balcázar The Vignelli Canon, a Tribute Though we can learn from many designers, few have left us a legacy more clear and visible.

Fernando Del Vecchio We Must Learn to Play the Game In the market there are good and bad designers, good and bad clients, all sort of competition and prices. All of them are some of the components of the game to play.

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Samuel López-Lago Mildred Constantine, pioneer in graphic design musealization Mildred Constantine did a great job, achieving the penetration of design objects in the field of museology.

Adrián Pierini Packaging and the World Cup Packaging desing specialty revolutionizes during mega sport events.

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Cecilia Salinas Paul Ricoeur and creative search The origin of the creative act from a philosopher's perspective.

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Manuel Guerrero Brief introduction to typography study in the antique book A review about Marina Garone's book, that allows to understand a great part of the vocabulary currently used in editorial and typographic design.

Vanessa Lerner Do We Really Know What a Graphic Brand Conveys? If we really know the meaning of a graphic brand, will we be closer to know what is probably being created in the public's mind?

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Olmo Garcia NACE, a network designed to abuse creatives Nowadays we are swarmed by certain platforms capable to empty any creative bowels. And the worst part? The snobbish airs they exude.

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Guido Battaglia No Real Signs of Road Safety The role of visual communication in transit is vital, but not valued.

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Pablo Zarate Design Manifesto Ten principles that guide my daily design practice.

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Fernando Navia Meyer Graphic design's carbon footprint 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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