Are We Destined to Fail as Entrepreneurs?
The growing number of creative professionals that venture into entrepreneurship raises doubts and concern.
Introduction to graphic design: Basic and advanced concepts of online graphic design (Page 2)
A starting point to understand everything about freelance graphic designers. A concise and practical guide to graphic design, graphic design agencies and visual design and communication, with innovative ideas, success stories, specialized bibliography, debate forums, and valuable suggestions.
Zero Waste Packaging: Possible or Not?
Although to eradicate packaging waste may sound impossible to achieve, sustainability is a path to take and make improvements over time to reduce environmental impact.
What Does My Design Communicate?
Bad communication is a problem that we experience every day. Design plays an important role in communication and should be congruent.
Views and Reflections on Design Education: Local Voices from Puerto Rico
Limited inquiry that explored ways of knowing, experiences, and procedures in teaching design in Puerto Rico using a critical reflective practice approach.
Design on the Edge
Marcos García is a talented Argentinean graphic designer and illustrator who uses cutter instead of pencil to produce his amazing designs.
Social Design Cases
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.
My Debut as a Design Student
Experience and career are based in dedication and hard work.
Design Contests
Contests aren't the cause of the main structural problems of the design profession, but an excellent reflection of such problems.
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.
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.
Designing for Restaurants
If you ever have the fortune of working for a restaurant, you will have to think in a different way.
Web and Graphic Design for Posterity
Lots of clients ask us for «modern» designs. How healthy is it for the client's wallet, or our own, to follow imposed trends?
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
Accomplice Design or Ethical Design
How long are the designers going to keep collaborating with a system which leads us to an Earth disaster?
Creative Myopia
The lack of strategic thinking in design and creativity proposals leads indirectly to the standardization of creative results.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
About Effectiveness
Being efficacious entails doing the right things; being efficient, doing them correctly. Being effective means being efficacious and efficient.
Management vs. Leadership
We don't need to manage the present but we should lead the future.
Forum, “Fuero” and “Foras”!
On the shared construction of a design without geographical, academic or professional boundaries.
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.
I Am a Designer Anthropologist
My job, designing brands for clients with global reach, involves a different approach from that of a traditional designer.
The Roots of Industrial Design Colleges in Colombia
Looking back from two theories about its origin.
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.
Graphic Design New Fields
Macro-trends and behavior patterns allow to visualize new fields of action for graphic design in the future.
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»?
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.
Branding Types
Branding is connected with brand image, positioning and reputation. It is the result of an endless list of marketing and design strategies.
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.
Strategy and Creativity are Part of Design
Though it sounds quite obvious, to start any design process it is necessary analysis and strategic thinking.
Making a Living as a Designer
Why designers'compensation continues to be so low? A question that still calling for an answer.
Being a New Rockstar of Design
Can future designers create a sustainable personal image on any scenario that the market might present?
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.
Learning, the Hard Way
My first steps as an independent graphic designer. Mistakes and some useful tips.
The Vignelli Canon, a Tribute
Though we can learn from many designers, few have left us a legacy more clear and visible.
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.
Packaging and the World Cup
Packaging desing specialty revolutionizes during mega sport events.
Mildred Constantine, Pioneer in Graphic Design Musealization
Mildred Constantine did a great job, achieving the penetration of design objects in the field of museology.
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.
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?
Paul Ricoeur and creative search
The origin of the creative act from a philosopher's perspective.
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.
The Capacity of Visualizing
The essential of designing resides on the ability to imagine how things will work before they materialize.
No Real Signs of Road Safety
The role of visual communication in transit is vital, but not valued.
