Burma (Myanmar), 1989- September 28, 2007 This slideshow of photographs from 1989 is offered in solidarity with the people of Burma as they again confront one of the most brutal regimes in the world.http://www.designobserver.com/archives/028447.html Decorative Books: The End of Print- September 26, 2007 Back in 1956, The Times promotion department provided a viable answer in the form of its 65 Ways to Decorate with Books in Your Home, a bookzine with a reasonable $1 cover price. Steven Heller looks here for answers to repurpose of these venerable materials into useful life-enhancing goods.http://www.designobserver.com/archives/028168.html May I Show You My Portfolio- September 21, 2007 My art school portfolio has sat in a box, largely untouched, in the closets and basements of the three places I've lived in the last 27 years, sort of like a slowly decaying design time capsule. A few weeks ago, I opened it up for the first time in a long time.http://www.designobserver.com/archives/027553.html Designers and Dilettantes- September 18, 2007 Dmitri Siegel discusses graphic design authorship and the impending release of Elliott Earls new film, The Sarany Motel.http://www.designobserver.com/archives/027986.html Meredith Davis: The Cult of ASAP- September 15, 2007 Before long, many designers burn out by promising unrealistic turnaround on projects, working at levels that dont accommodate a balanced life, and closing down any time for reflection on the work theyre doing and on the world around them. I believe as educators, we need to consider how we introduce students to reflective practice, how we actually slow down and pace the physical execution of work in order to design smart.http://www.designobserver.com/archives/027657.html The Gone World: Wallace Berman's Photographs- September 12, 2007 In 1961, Wallace Berman, a California-based artist, publisher of the proto-zine, Semina, gallerist, and photographer, too a picture of his landlady while he was living in Larkspur, California. We see her (the landlady!) sprawled across a bed dressed in a bra and skirt, casually holding a pistol...http://www.designobserver.com/archives/027693.html Rob Kimmel: Coney Island Bin Laden- September 11, 2007 In 2004, the paper targets at the Coney Island shooting gallery featured a hand-drawn Osama Bin Laden.http://www.designobserver.com/archives/028036.html Back To School- September 8, 2007 Yet once Graphic Design is introduced in the classroom, how do educational offerings differ Herewith and in the spirit of "la rentre" is an extremely random sampling.http://www.designobserver.com/archives/027923.html You're So Intelligent- September 5, 2007 Wanting to be taken seriously, designers yearn to be respected for their minds. Yet they take their real gifts a miraculous fluency with beauty, an ability to manipulate form in a way that can touch people's hearts for granted.http://www.designobserver.com/archives/027882.html Teddy Blanks: Olia Lialina & Relics of the Lost Web- September 1, 2007 Today, the comparatively prehistoric graphic vocabulary of the early web has either been forgotten, or is simply regarded with the facile mockery that comes of 2020 hindsight. Instead, they are an important part of internet history, and have, intended or not, a strange beauty.http://www.designobserver.com/archives/027798.html |