For the Office of Career Planning — in progress. 

Featuring the free font, Miso.

In progress shot of recent brochure.

Financial aid brochure: breaking down the four easy steps into four panels.

Sneak peek of a brochure for Adrian College. We interviewed Adrian College students, faculty and staff and immersed ourselves in the world of Adrian College. The spirit we discovered on-campus drove the direction of a series of promotional pieces for the College, speaking strongly to the limitless energy, enthusiasm and dedication possessed by each and every person at the College.

A new project for Adrian College. Their small but mighty Honors program needed a facelift. A comprehensive list of classes, an interview with an outstanding Honors student and icons illustrating the benefits of Honors Lyfe, sandwiched between semigloss white paper painted rich black and glazed with clear foil. Seriously BA. Show me one person who WON’T join the Honors Bulldogs.

I’m still thinking about female designers, so let’s talk about the RISD-educated Janine Rewell. Finnish (with stunning looks) and currently Helsinki-based, Janine is a talented designer and illustrator.

She’s won a pile of awards (though, Tan the Man, pictured above, is obviously the pinnacle of her career) and has a huge variety of projects and her belt. Despite her achievements, her work continues to be fresh, relevant, amusing and, above-all, confident. 

“Janine won a bronze Design Lion at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival 2009 and recently nominated by Print Magazine as one of the twenty best new visual artists of 2010. She is also awarded with the Junior Award 2010, the greatest national recognition for a young designer. In addition to taking part in many group exhibitions, she had her first solo exhibition in Barcelona in 2010.

Inspired by surrealist painters, children’s books, art deco, bright colors and the geometry of nature, Janine’s designs are a enchanting mix of Scandinavian design and Slavic folk art.”

You’ll love it. 

Zany ain’t it? by the Caleb Owen Everitt.

Oh, Frank Chimero. You are the beautiful, brilliant Johnny Depp of graphic design. 

“Frank Chimero (YG8) and friend Rob Giampietro began an unconventionally conversational blog in May. The Mavenist: The Occasional Back-and-Forth Blog is composed of a very precise formula. As Chimero puts it: “Two people, preferably friends, collaborate on a blog post by being available to one another. One begins by sharing something interesting, then commenting on it. This begins a dialogue. The second person then reciprocates with something they like which follows the thought-path of the previous item. The two go back-and-forth ten times and see where the flow of the conversation takes them.” This stream-of-consciousness blog-game offers a look inside random associations formed in conversation via the world wide web.” - ADC Young Guns blog 

The Mavenist is awesome, and it’s always nice to read the writing of an intelligent and truly gifted person. 

You will love it, I promise.

There aren’t enough women, and not enough diversity, represented in the design community.

At least that’s Dylan Lathrop’s opinion in his article for Good. He cites examples which support a claim that the design community is in danger of becoming a “boy’s club.” I’m not gonna get all political on you (not the point) but it did get me thinking about truly amazing female designers. I devised a stout list of design babes (jump started by this list, curated by the good people at Good).

To start, there’s The Dye Lab, comprised of the award-winning, MFA-toting Tonya Douraghy and Alanna MacGowan. They are behind Print magazine’s recent aesthetic overhaul, in addition to exquisite posters, carefully curated exhibitions like Print’s “20 Under 30,” and cool projects like “Positive Post” (a branded traveling exhibition facilitating public participation and communication). The above photo is part of Tonya’s MFA thesis, TIME/PLACE:

“TIME / PLACE is a book series [and] digital archive designed to document subjective accounts of what war is like from the point of view of ordinary citizens. TIME / PLACE explores the political history of modern border conflicts through personal narratives. 

Each book in the series focuses on one conflict. The first book of the series is TIME / PLACE: 1980-1988 Iran AND focuses on the Iran-Iraq War. The conflict is presented in three layers of depth: Facts, which builds a framework through timelines, maps, and data; Voices, personal stories from the war, annotated with relevant history, dates, and translations; and Landscapes, which uses photographs to document what the conflict really looks like on the ground.”

Compelling ladies, huh? 

I’m sorry to tell you, but infographics are getting tired. Dane Peter Orntoft  uses intelligence and practicality to breathe fresh air into the art of “visualizing statistics”:

“Danish graphic designer Peter Orntoft is taking graphical representations of statistics to the next level. Using clever visual tricks and simple but effective photography, the artist has found a way to transform opinions into an easy-to-read, real-life context.

For example, he photographed a woman wearing layered multicolor abayas, a headdress typically worn by Middle Eastern women, in different proportions to represent the percentages of Danish people who believed wearing religious symbols to work was inappropriate. And in another infographic for the same set of data, Orntoft color-coded beads on a rosary to correspond to the various percentages.

In comparison to Orntoft’s work, traditional graphs begin to appear formal and academic. His designs prove that informational graphics can be even closer to the reality they are supposed to represent. See, designers? Math doesn’t have to be terrible!” - Infographics in Context, Design Bureau

While you’re at it, check out all of Peter’s work.

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Dear Friends,

In 3 days Niamh and I set out from Brooklyn for our adventure. We’ll be traveling across the country and working out of the back of our camper for the next couple of months. You can follow our science and design caravan on our new blog HERE where we’ll be posting all design stuff, science stuff, travel stuff, and general actin’ a foolery. Posting on this blog will cease for now, so please keep up with us on Open Highway Reader.

Thanks!

Dan

This project/trip/adventure sounds amazing! I will be following this with avid curiosity! Hope you guys do lots of posts, so people (like me) can live vicariously through your experiences … Very nifty!

More Frank by Helm Workshop of Austin, TX.

A deliciously designed poster by Helm Workshop of Austin, Texas for Frank restaurant, “an Austin, Texas mecca for bacon-lovers, beer-guzzlers and encased meat enthusiasts.”

PS: Are there really encased meat enthusiasts out there? Love to meat one … HA!