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You have your design skills. You spent your time in the educational trenches having your work dissected, rearranged, put back together in new and inventive ways.
Perhaps you're making your bones as a graphic designer at a firm, or maybe you've taken the plunge into self-employment.
Either way, you never forget the first lesson that every creative discovers from the moment they meet the first or five hundredth client through the door: almost everybody wants something for free.
We've all experienced it.
A client arrives, bursting with ideas, dreams, sketches on the back of cocktail napkins, or sometimes only the desire to have 'something' placed on a billboard, written in an advertisement, engineered into a website.
They want a unique logo, a campaign, a catchphrase; and they don't have a dime in their pocket.
And we're not talking about the lubricious types of businesses.
We're talking about non-profit organizations who put too little faith (and funding) into the benefits of a well-researched identity.
We're talking about fundraisers that need an identity, or young startups that seek to change the world, but aren't sure how to make their voices heard above the fray.
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NYTimes.com announced today its launch of the Polling Place Photo Project, a nationwide experiment that encourages voters to submit photographs of every polling location in America during the 2008 primaries and general election.
By documenting local voting experiences, online users can contribute to an archive of photographs that captures the richness and complexity of voting in America.
The Polling Place Photo Project is a program of The New York Times and AIGA, the professional association for design.
The project was created by William Drenttel of Design Observer before the midterm elections in November 2006.
AIGA and its strategic initiative Design for Democracy have made ballot and election design reform a goal since 2000, shortly after ballot design flaws were exposed in South Florida.
"Designers are also citizens who realize that the very heart of the great experiment that the country's founders envisioned was an informed citizenry, able to communicate its will both clearly and effectively," said Richard Grefé, executive director of AIGA.
Grefe added that "ultimately, we want to show both The New York Times and the broader public that we see the prosaic as well as the patriotic clearly and that design counts everywhere."
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This book presents a series of illuminating and entertaining conversations with twenty-one of today's most influential and revered designers:
Milton Glaser, Paula Scher, Peter Saville, Chip Kidd, Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Bierut, Carin Goldberg, Neville Brody, Emily Oberman & Bonnie Seigler, James Victore, John Maeda, Paul Sahre, Jessica Helfand, Seymour Chwast, Lucille Tenazas, Vaughan Oliver, Steff Geissbuhler, Stephen Doyle, Abbott Miller, Massimo Vignelli.
These designers reveal their early influences, day-to-day rituals, enthusiasms, aspirations, and failures.
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How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer
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As the presidential race shifts into high gear, Americans are inundated with propaganda.
Where does truth end and "spin" begin?
Madison Avenue veterans and other media experts offer some perspective in Where the Truth Lies: A Symposium on Propaganda Today, presented by the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in cooperation with the PhD Programs in History and Sociology of the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY).
The keynote presentation will be given by celebrated designer and creator of the "I Love NY" logo Milton Glaser, who asks, "Is there any difference between good propaganda and bad propaganda?" Among other topics, the program will address how American presidents persuade the public to go to war and what progressive politicians can learn from Las Vegas.
There will also be a sneak preview of Carrier, a new PBS documentary about life on the USS Nimitz warship during a recent deployment to the Persian Gulf and a screening of propaganda videos.
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Dave and Holly Combs traveled to New York City from Indianapolis, Indiana, to assist with Sept. 11 recovery efforts.
While exploring Manhattan during their off hours, they were inspired by the wealth of stickers they saw all over the city.
These stickers made such an impact that the Combses started PEEL, the first street-art magazine with a focus on stickers.
Evolving from a black and white zine stuffed into plastic bags to a full-size, glossy, internationally distributed magazine, this book documents the development of PEEL and sticker culture, as the two are intimately linked.
Showcasing stickers, interviews and articles from the first eight issues of PEEL, this book celebrates the innovation and diversity of sticker and street art, including interviews with some of the scene's legendary figures like Shepard Fairey and SEEN, along with profiles of international sticker communities, and sticker designs from artists across the globe.
And of course, the book has stickers, 69 of them.
PEEL: The Art of the Sticker demonstrates how the Combses have created a nexus for the sticker and street art community, providing a forum for artists to transcend culture, language and geography by abiding by the PEEL credo: "Take your art and... STICK IT!"
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