Design Citizens

Graphic Design Study of the Snowflake by Andrei D. Robu.
(Via: Swissmiss)

I’m fairly certain that Michael Osborn has a heart made of pure gold. He has an obsession with design, a true-love for it that keeps him designing round-the-clock for some amazing charitable organizations.
This is a picture of Michael Osborn and I moments after I met him for the first time. It was a unseasonably warm [...]

From idsgn.org: IKEA, the assemble-it-yourself furniture store beloved by college students and people who are still paying for college, years after graduation, has changed its typeface after 50 years. They’ve switched from a customized version of Futura to… wait for it… VERDANA.
Verdana can be found all over the web (it’s a safe bet for web [...]

That’s right ladies and gentlemen, the creative masterminds behind Design Citizens (in conjunction with their marketing cohorts) won a first place NATIONAL Marketing Communications Award (MCA) last night at the SMPS National Build Business Conference Gala for FOX Architect’s Internal Newsletter - The Yellow Pages! We are absolutely thrilled to be presented with this award [...]

Design for a Living World, a new exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City, opens this Thursday, May 14th. It’s being co-curated by graphic design superstars (and husband and wife) Abbott Miller and Ellen Lupton and features the work of ten fashion, industrial and furniture designers who were tasked with developing new uses for [...]

Several months ago, a Dutch company called Spranq rolled out a free typeface called Ecofont®. It had lots of little holes in it and the idea was that those open spaces would cut the amount of ink needed to print the typeface by 15%, thus making it a more earth-friendly choice. A lot of research [...]

Bryony and Armin at UnderConsideration have launched a new division of their blog empire called FPO (For Print Only.) As the name suggests, it will focus on well-designed printed pieces. Anyone can send in a submission for consideration and FPO will also post interesting projects they find online. 
I feel like the print industry is under [...]

The Visual Dictionary is a searchable collection of word photography. It’s similar to welovetypography, but instead of searching the typographic style by topic (like “wedding invitation”), you search for the actual word you want to see in a photograph. Perfect for those of you who might need to write a quick ransom note or something. 

Recently I.D. Magazine in Italy and Moleskine (the company that makes those fabulous little journals that I always want to buy and then am scared to actually write on) teamed up to distribute 13 blank notebooks to 13 artists, thinkers and designers. The artists then spent a week filling the notebooks with little notes, sketches and bits [...]

Graphic Designer and Brand Guru Armin Vit, who runs the blog Brand New (part of his larger blog project UnderConsideration) posted an alleged re-brand of Ford Motors last year on April 1st. It took a good part of the morning before the surprised designers commenting on the entry figured out what day it was and [...]