Design Citizens

If you can’t believe that we finally decided to take down the silly static JPEG that we called our “website” for approximately 4 months then, well… you better believe it!
Check it out: http://www.citizen-creative.com
This fresh and shiny website is actually a Woo Theme, AKA a premium WordPress theme built on a solid code framework which [...]

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

You may have noticed a few changes here at Design Citizens over the last few days. There’s a good reason for that!
Our studio, FOX Graphics, has been steadily evolving over the last couple of years. We’ve had awesome opportunities to work with great clients and we’ve enjoyed every minute of it! To acknowledge and celebrate [...]

Elizabeth Gilbert has genius, but she’d never go along with “being” a genius. It’s the natural way people thought about creativity and genius in the Western Culture before humans were at the center of the universe and began to refer to themselves as “a genius.” This is her TED talk. I found it funny, personal [...]

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 [...]

A week ago AIGA DC hosted a film screening of Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight, a film by Arthouse Films and directed by first time filmmaker, Wendy Keys.

I first heard of Milton Glaser when I was in college, but he was never as big as Lester Beall for some reason. At RIT, we had [...]

Over the summer, Debbie Millman emailed me and asked that I participate in the AIGA National Design Conference (which I just blogged about) as one of the 20/20 presenters. 20/20 is a short skit that started a couple of years ago as an inspirational addition to the main stage presentations at the AIGA conferences where [...]

On Sunday, I got back from 5 bliss-filled days in Memphis, Tennessee, where I was volunteering at and participating in the AIGA National Design Conference, Make|Think. AIGA, the professional association for design, holds a National Design Conference every two years. I was in Denver for the 2007 conference and in 2005 I was in [...]

Today on nytimes.com - Abbott Miller picks some of his favorite graphic accessories and housewares. (My favorite is the alphabet quilt, above.) I love the idea of using bold, graphic shapes and typographic elements in home design (and a little surprised that more than one of Abbott’s picks came from Urban Outfitters. I haven’t been [...]

Today on Design Observer, Bradford McKee profiles a floating house designed by Morphosis in Los Angeles. Designed to rise with flood waters rather than get buried under them, the house is made of pre-fabricated parts and will only cost around $150,000. It’s appropriately located in New Orlean’s Lower Ninth Ward and is equipped to go [...]