Non-Traditional Uses For WordPress

DESIGNM.AG offers a great article on “11 Non-Traditional Uses Of WordPress.” This is an eye-opening aricle, complete with how-to links, and includes creating sites with uses for managing e-mail newsletters, directories,forums, contacts and more.

Life & Times of Paul Rand

Lovingly executed and chocked full of features, the new paul-rand.com offers a very thorough gallery of this master designers work (including hard-to-find prototypes and fabric designs), an historical timeline of the designer’s work, and thoughts from this 20th century master.

Times Redesign

On Saturday, January 24, 2009, The Times appeared in its new incarnation. The new broadsheet design (maybe we call it “retro”) harkens to its past and leaves today’s info-byte/tabloid skimmers with something to sink their eye teeth into. Though the…

Information Design

In the tradition of Edward Tufte, HistoryShots creates and sells posters, cards and even mugs featuring beautiful data-driven designs.Shown above is Death and Taxes, a representational poster of the federal discretionary budget and designed by Jess Bachman.

Accurate Color with Digital Printing

Matching PMS color when using digital printing can range from frustrating to impossible. Ask your digital printer if they have printed sheets from their equipment with all PMS colors. Then match your client’s PMS colors to the digital PMS colors.…

Holiday Cards

Every other year or so, I design & print my own holiday cards. Above are a few of the previous years’ entries.

Graphic Stamps

Often overlooked as a noteworthy medium for graphic designers, the Kat Ran Press site highlights a collection of international postage stamps created by graphic designers.