Illustration courtesy Britt Irick
This is the third of three questions we asked for August’s “Three” series. Check out what several local creatives had to say, then share your own insight via the comments below!
We want to know: How do you fight the economic downturn (personally or professionally)?
Andrew Cohen abandoned a computer science degree program at George Mason University to pursue a graphic design degree, instead. It was a transition that happened naturally — from his playing “Oregon Trail” on an Apple II GS using disks that needed to be flipped halfway through the game to learning photography from his mom and sister to creating websites in Dreamweaver and Photoshop.
Now, the 24-year-old Old Town resident and suburban-Richmond native spends his time designing for the web; that is, when he’s not playing soccer, mountain biking, running, snowboarding, reading, hoarding music, drawing, photographing, catching up with his sister (who’s studying in Buenos Aires), or complementing his rewarding job at Brightline Interactive with freelance design — an endeavor he’s thought about doing full-time.
Illustration courtesy Britt Irick
This is the second of three questions we asked for August’s “Three” series. Check out what several local creatives had to say, then share your own insight via the comments below!
We want to know: What advice would you give creatives who are considering going full-time freelance?
This 29th Annual was published by Collins Design, an imprint of HarpersCollinsPublishers.
If you love typography, then Typography 29 is a must for your collection of design/typography books!
Inside are more than 360 pages of superior handling of type in the world of design. All forms of the printed word using type as the key element are represented here. Each piece of design has its own page.
This is the 29th year of the TDC using the book format. Yesteryear, 29 years ago, the club produced as many pages as needed to insert in one issue of the magazine “Art Direction.” (If anyone is interested in seeing the other 28 volumes, call me at 202.338.0962 for an appointment and come over to my studio and blow your mind!)
This volume has a section in the back that shows projects from their 5th annual (the 5th annual BEFORE THE FIRST OF THE 29 BOOK YEARS) which was published in 1959.
I have listed some of the objectives of the TDC below:
When designer David DeSandro traded Harrisonburg for Arlington four years ago after earning a degree in communication studies, he didn’t know he was about to embark on what had become a continuing path of artistic exploration. From childhood to adolescence to college, he’d transitioned from drawing and sketching to songwriting and playing guitar to making music visualizations, the latter of which were “a terrific amalgamation of visual design and scripting.”
Illustration courtesy Britt Irick
The editorial staff of FullBleed this month kicked-off a new series called “Three” by asking ADCMW members three questions that typically confront us as creatives. The answers we receive are then compiled and published individually over consecutive weeks. This is the first of three questions we asked for August. Check out what several local creatives had to say, then share your own insight via the comments below!
We want to know: how do you combat the slippery slope of endless design “tweaks” and feedback?
This 12” square book contains 50 subjects’ personal bits of wisdom. Its 216 pages are handsome and well designed. The photos are by Andrew Zuckerman, photographer and filmmaker.
The cover has an almost full-bleed photo of one of those wise people. All 50 names are listed on the outside back cover. (The book itself was designed by PQ Blackwell Limited Images and published by Abrams.) The interior consists of a short piece of wisdom with text and Helvetica heading (wisdom thoughts) and large photos of each person. A real coffee table book!
To quote from part of the text on the first flap:
Inspired by the idea that one of the greatest gifts one generation can give to another is the wisdom it has gained from experience.
The book has a DVD of the film that documents the photographing of the project. Take a look at andrewzuckerman.com for an enjoyable handful of minutes.
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