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The Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing & Criticism seek to increase the understanding and appreciation of design, both within the profession and throughout American life.
A program of AIGA, these annual award have been funded by Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel of the Winterhouse Institute to recognize excellence in writing about design and encourage the development of young voices in design writing, commentary and criticism.
There are two types of awards: Writing award of $5,000, open to writers, critics, scholars, historians, journalists and designers and given for a body of work.
Education award of $1,000, open to students (undergraduate or graduate) whose use of writing, in the interest of making visual work or scholarship or cultural observation, demonstrates extraordinary originality and promise.
The deadline for both type of awards is June 30, 2006.
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Master Colors, manufacturer of the award winning plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, the HVC Color Composer, has just announced the introduction of "Nirvana- 6 Color Lessons to Enlightenment" a free, online, downloadable color seminar.
This unprecedented, online color seminar is presented in 6 individual step by step lessons.
These lessons are ideal for those seeking to master the rigors of modern color composition.
Intended for Design Professionals, Digital artists, Photographers and Amateurs alike, Nirvana provides the tools necessary to gain control over every aspect of color in your composition.
In addition, to the 6 color lessons, seekers of spectral ascension can also download Master Colors free demo version of The HVC Color Composer Pro software and practice templates.
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Plugging a gap in functional stock illustration, Orange32's new Stockaid collection provides designers a slew of illustrations that they can incorporate into their own work.
Each theme-based collection is comprised of 50 stylized elements and five stock illustrations that show uses of the elements based on the theme.
Besides clip art and silhouettes there has not been a good offering of stock illustrations for graphic designers to work with.
With six titles currently available, and at least one new title coming a month, Stockaid poses to make a major move into the stock illustration market.
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Massimo Vignelli is a grandee of design who's on a mission to combat the vulgarity he sees all around him.
If only his fellow-practitioners felt the same way, he tells David Usborne.
Massimo Vignelli, dressed entirely in black save for a tiny grid-motif silver pin beneath his Adam's apple, lifts his eyes the full height of the leaded pains of the windows in his Manhattan apartment all the way to the ceiling, 21 feet above.
It is a gargantuan living space, even if he stands over six feet tall himself. "It's about the right size for my ego," he says. "Not to feel compressed."
As an Italian-born architect and designer whose determinedly modernist worldview has won him many awards as well as exhibits in museums such as the MoMA in New York as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vignelli can afford to show some good-humoured self-aggrandisement.
There is also the fact that in America, at least - which has been his home for 40 years - Vignelli designs and logos are everywhere.
"You could fly into New York on American Airlines, find your way on the New York City subway, shop at Bloomingdales, dine at Palio, and even worship at St Peter's Church and never be out of touch with a Vignelli-designed logo, signage system, shopping bag, table setting or pipe organ," noted the graphic designer Michael Bierut - and
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Toffee Break, a boutique confectioner of toffee, truffles, dessert specialties, and pastries, has repackaged its flagship Toffee Break Signature Collection brand with premium FiberMark packaging materials.
Designed to attract connoisseurs in luxury retail environments, the "Windows of Toffee" and "Signature Collection" product lines represent the keystone of its re-branding initiative.
"We wanted something sophisticated and unusual that conveyed elegance while concurrently wasn't something you see all the time," explains Robin Fields, founder and owner of the Chicago-based Toffee Break.
"Once we discovered FiberMark, our search was over."
"Windows of Toffee" is available in eight-, 10-, and 12-ounce dome-shaped die-cut gift boxes.
The "Signature Collection" sports larger 12- and 16-ounce rectangular gift boxes.
Both lines share in common premium reflective cover stocks from FiberMark, providing a stunning background for the gold foil embossing of the distinctive sans serif and cursive Toffee Break logo.
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