James Kurtz III | Graphic Designer | Northeast Ohio

Give Graphic Design as a Gift this Holiday

James Kurtz III — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:04:06 +0000

The holiday shopping season is upon us. When considering your options for that perfect gift, take a moment and consider giving a graphic design based product as a gift. While nearly every gift you give will have been touched by a graphic designer at some time in it’s production, the following products are graphic design [...]

Design 101

James Kurtz III — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:26:57 +0000

Design 101 is a week long seminar in New York City that teaches the basics of design to non designers. It is specifically for business executives that are in a design related field or make decisions about design as part of their day-to-day jobs. Such positions could range from CFO at an advertising agency to [...]

Is graphic design art

James Kurtz III — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:58:57 +0000

A new website asks one simple question. Is graphic design art? Answer to find out how the internet currently feels about the subject. link

Emotionally Vague

James Kurtz III — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:21:42 +0000

Emotionally Vague is a research project about emotion, sensation, and feeling. The project aims to define the emotions anger, joy, fear, sadness, and love by conducting a survey where users define each emotion in different visual ways. One exercise asks them to draw arrows in the direction each of the emotions takes place in [...]

Pentawards

James Kurtz III — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:56:48 +0000

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. link