The Pentawards is an annual worldwide packaging design awards competition.

The 2008 winners have been announced and you can see the beauties over at The Dieline. Make sure to scroll all the way down and click next, it keeps going. Get ready to drool.

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Reading a web comic is a great way to quickly improve your day when feeling a bit bored or down. There are thousands upon thousands of web-comics around the internet. Here are some of my favorites.
Graphic Design Based Web Comics
1Point Rule

The Brads

Freelance Freedom

Some of My Other (non-design related) Favorites
Garfield Minus Garfield

Diesel Sweeties

XKCD

Boy on a Stick […]

The graphic designer’s role in society is to communicate messages visually. Quite often when designers feel they have something to say on their own they use the same tools they would use to get any other message across. Those tools, of course, being the various forms of visual communication.
Currently (in the U.S.), the election is […]

Times change. Logos change. Some for better. Some for worse. Take a look at how several well-known brands have evolved over the years.
An overview of most industries.

The automobile industry.

Technology companies.

Shell

Canon

Starbucks

What is graphic design? It is many things to many people. Below I have gathered quotes of how some great designers and thinkers define graphic design.

“Since prehistoric times, people have searched for ways to give visual form to ideas and concepts, to store knowledge in graphic form, and to bring order and clarity to information. […]