March marks the return of Print HERstory Month, an annual celebration dedicated to amplifying women’s voices in the printing industry that coincides with Women’s History Month. It is hosted and founded by Girls Who Print.
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Ford Foundation Presents ‘Reverberations’
The ‘Reverberations’ exhibition at the Ford Foundation seeks to revises design history by spotlighting Indigenous, Black, and People of Color (IBPOC) designers and cultural figures. The subtext: a challenge to narrative of design tradition as a single dominant line.
The One Club Sets ‘Freelancer Connect’ Business Guidance Event
Organized by The One Club, the inaugural Freelancer Connect conference will provide practical business advice and a networking opportunity to a wide range of solo practitioners. Confirmed speakers include ad and design leaders, successful freelancers, and tax and accounting specialists.
GDUSA Moves To Brooklyn
GDUSA moved to the Prospect Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn earlier this year, after 60 years of publishing on or within a few feet of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Brooklyn is a leading producer of irony and Publisher Gordon Kaye has a few very brief thoughts along those lines.
The One Club Names 2024 Hall Of Fame Inductees
The One Club proudly announces the creative legends selected as 2024 inductees into the prestigious Creative Hall of Fame. The HOF has a rich heritage of honoring the lifetime achievements in all forms of advertising and design, starting with the induction of Leo Burnett in 1961.
SVA MFA Products of Design Speaker Series: Eason Yang
SVA’s MFA Products of Design welcomes designer, creative director, educator, and social entrepreneur Eason Yang.
TAPPI and AICC Announce SuperCorrExpo 2024
Registration for SuperCorrExpo 2024 is now open. The largest event for the corrugated packaging industry will take place September 8-12 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando FL.
TDC Opens Call For Four Global Scholarship Programs
The Type Directors Club has opened the call for applications for its four global student scholarship programs. Programs recognize BIPOC, female-identifying, Native American and First Nation, and needs-based students.
Poster House Sets Spring Season
Poster House will present four new exhibitions for the spring season. The two main exhibitions are ‘Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters’ and ‘The Anatomy of a Movie Poster: The Work of Dawn Baillie.’
Second Print Design Summit Is Set For February
Print Design Academy presents the 2nd Annual Print Design Summit, a virtual conference dedicated to empowering graphic designers with the skills they need to create award-winning print and packaging designs.
AIGA MN and Walker Art Center Set Lecture Series
The Walker Art Center and AIGA Minnesota are co-presenting the Insights Design Lecture Series. Featuring leading graphic designers and design thinkers from around the world, the series takes place March 12–April 2.
Gordon Kaye: Making Sense of 60 Years
‘The more things change, the more they remain insane.’ As GDUSA winds up its sixth decade, a few thoughts about the evolution of graphic design as a discipline and profession, how it has morphed and changed over time, and how to make some sense of it all.
The One Club Opens Creative Hall of Fame Nominations to Membership
After decades of having its Board of Directors nominate the esteemed inductees for the biannual Creative Hall of Fame, The One Club for Creativity is for the first time opening the nomination process for 2024 to its global membership.
Gordon Kaye: Our 2023 Inhouse Design Awards
GDUSA Editor and Publisher Gordon Kaye on the magazine’s 2023 Inhouse Design Awards showcase, and the potential role of inhouse designers going forward in helping to rebuild social trust and usher in an era of communications truth and transparency.
Top 5 Reasons To Attend MAX 2023
Adobe MAX, the Creativity Conference, is one of the largest gatherings of graphic and web designers, creative and art directors, and other leaders. GDUSA readers save big on a conference pass with promo code M23GDUSA.
3rd Brody Monograph Explores Past 30 Years Of Career
A follow up to two highly successful monographs on the work of Neville Brody showcases projects completed since the mid-1990s. Thematic sections address typographic experimentation, information graphics, cultural subversion, and design systems by a creative legend.
Haddad & Partners’ Sweet 16th Anniversary
Ad agency, Haddad & Partners celebrated its 16th anniversary — and March Madness — and a new agency logo — at an epic party last week. UConn basketball greats engaged agency members in a pop-a-shot competition at Dockside Brewery in Milford CT.
TDC Opens Call For Three Scholarships
The Type Directors Club has opened the call for applications for their three student scholarship programs. The programs all have an entry deadline of March 24.
Girls Who Print Mobilizes For Print HERstory Month
The fifth annual Women’s Print HERstory Month returns in March to inspire the “fierce, fabulous females of print.” Girls Who Print is seeking to mobilize women of the industry around the event.
Encyclopedia Of UX Design Set For Spring
Rockport will publish the Universal Principles of UX this spring. The encyclopedia has been compiled with the help of UX experience design guru Irene Pereyra.
Work That Feels (And Is) Meaningful
Gordon Kaye and Sasha Kaye-Walsh are editors at Graphic Design USA/GDUSA. These comments first ran in October 2022. They deal with GDUSA’s 2022 Health+Wellness Design Awards, the annual Responsible Designers feature, and more news and ideas.
Running Ahead: 50 Years of Cougar®
For fifty years, Cougar Paper has defined the path for print as an art form and invited those who hold it in their hands to be captivated by its beauty. Domtar, sponsor of GDUSA’s 2022 Responsible Designers report, is celebrating this impressive history.
AIGA Worldstudio Scholarships Awarded
AIGA has announced the winners of the 2022/2023 AIGA Worldstudio Scholarships. Awarded annually, the scholarships encourage social and environmental responsibility and cultural awareness in the next generation of artists and designers.
SCAD Campaign Celebrates Film Festival
Over 20 SCAD students and alumni collaborated to create a dynamic and extensive creative campaign, shot in historic Savannah, to celebrate the SCAD Savannah Film Festival’s 25th anniversary.
Chip Kidd’s Batman Artwork Collection on View at MICA
Legendary Chip Kidd, a Batman expert, was inspired to invite some of the world’s greatest illustrators, cartoonists and designers to sketch one-of-a-kind covers with complete creative freedom.
Richard Poulin on Rudolph de Harak
RIchard Poulin has written the first major publication on the life and work of celebrated mid-century modernist graphic designer Rudolph de Harak. The subhead: Rational Simplicity.
‘Where Are All The Black People’ Conference Returns
The One Club has announced its 12th annual ‘Where Are All The Black People’ diversity conference and career fair. It will take place in New York and online October 6-7. The hybrid conference is free.
TDC Sets First Confab On Native North American Typography
This virtual event has been created to foster dialogue between Native and non-Native type communities, includes presentations, discussions, and workshops. The dates: November 11-12.
Gericke, Beeler, Johnson, Jacobson Are SEGD ‘Classmates’
SEGD’s class of Fellows for 2022 includes Michael Gericke of Pentagram, Julie Beeler and Brad Johnson of Second Story, and Alan Jacobson of Exit Design. Past Fellows include Ed Schlossberg, Paula Scher and Massimo Vignelli.
ADC Pioneers To Be Honored
The One Club will present the Manship Medallion to a select group creative leaders who have played a significant role in ADC history. Gail Anderson, Brian Collins, Paula Scher, Richard Wilde, George Lois, Eileen Hedy Schultz are among those recognized.
Parsons Book Marks 100 Years of Communication Design
The New School’s Parsons School of Design has published a new book written and edited by several professors which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the school’s Communication Design program.
Cooper Hewitt Explores ‘Designing Peace’
Commencing June 10, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present “Designing Peace,” an exhibition exploring the unique role design can play in pursuing peace.
AIGA Sets Design + Business Conference
Lynda Decker, Michael Bierut and Katrina Alcorn are among those featured in AIGA’s second annual Design + Business Conference to showcase how design is impacting businesses in measurable ways.
Pentagram, NYT Top Type Directors Club Competition
The winners of the Type Directors Club TDC68 Communication Design and 25TDC Typeface Design competitions have been announced. Pentagram and The New York Times Magazine were the most honored.
Design Museum Everywhere Sets Week Of Programming
Design Museum Week will feature five days of virtual and in-person programs in cities nationwide from April 25-29. The organizer is Design Museum Everywhere; workshops, presentations and lightning talks are included.
AIGA and Yale Mix Business and Design
AIGA and the Yale School of Management come together for the ‘Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders’ Executive Learning Program.’ The program is now in its 15th year.
Cooper Hewitt On Creative Responses To Epidemics
“Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics” Exhibition will open in December at Cooper Hewitt. It documents how, in response to COVID-19 and other health crises, designers, doctors and others collaborate to innovate.
AIGA Announces Initiative With Wiki Education
AIGA has announced an initiative with Wiki Education to expand and build more comprehensive design histories. AIGA Wiki Scholars Program will provide training for AIGA members to add and expand the design knowledge base.
LogoLounge 13 Open For Submissions
LogoLounge.com is currently accepting submissions for LogoLounge Book 13, which will feature 3,000 of the best and brightest logos from around the world.
AIGA Announces Hispanic Heritage Talks 2021
Under the AIGA umbrella and throughout Hispanic Heritage Month, Latinx and Hispanic Creatives will share their culture, contributions, and best practices to move design forward.