That’s enough Forbes!

First Forbes Magazine championed crowd-sourcing graphic design sites like CrowdSpring and called the graphic design industry “snooty.” Now they have insulted Cleveland by calling it the nation’s most miserable city. The list of miserable cities includes not only Cleveland but also Akron, Toledo, and Youngstown—every major city in northern Ohio.
Within one year […]

Recently I’ve had several graphic design students contact me with questions for their school projects. In case any other students are interested in the answers I’ve posted some of them below.
How did you become interested in Graphic Design?At an early age I realized that I could draw slightly better than my peers. They were […]

Andy Rutledge has composed a nice little graphic design test on his site that I encourage all designers to take and all non-designers to read. The test asks questions about design fundamentals that highlight the difference between creativity and design. Rutledge also aims to illustrate that many designers today are not designers in the traditional […]

Yes, this video is several years old, never the less I was just turned on to it and would like to share it with you here.
It’s always fun to see graphic design mentioned in popular culture since it’s normally an invisible profession. John Stossel, from television’s 20/20, takes a brief moment away from scarring […]

How many brands can you identify in the image below?

Check out @issue for the answers. I got a 19/26. Not bad considering I hadn’t even heard of a couple of the brands before. What did you get?