Any graphic designers watching The Celebrity Apprentice have no doubt cringed during nearly every episode when it comes time to bring in the graphic designer. While it’s fantastic to see graphic design showcased on the national stage as a strategic business tool, the show can also be used as a perfect example of how NOT [...]

Check out these design-geek T-shirts that pay homage to the styles of the graphic designer they feature. Includes designers such as Paul Rand, Wolfgang Weingart, Jan Tschichold, Josef Muller-Brockmann, Armin Hofmann, and Milton Glaser among others. Link

Wolfgang Weingart, the legendary graphic designer, was born in Germany in 1941. He started his career via a 3 year apprenticeship with a hand typesetter from 1958 in Stuttgart. After which he moved to Basel, Switzerland and enrolled in the Basel School of Applied Arts (Kunstgewerbeschule). There he studied under Emil Ruder and Armin Hoffman. [...]

When faced with the ever-popular question “What do you do?” My answer, ” I’m a graphic designer,” is often met with a blank expression, a confused look, or a feigned understanding. Often a partially-correct response “oh, so you’re into computers,” or “so you’re in advertising” comes next. Not everybody is confused on the subject and [...]

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an annual conference in Long Beach, California. Each year the world’s foremost thinkers get together to give and listen to speeches. The excellent TED website hosts over 200 of these videos and adds more each day. I try to watch at least one per day. They have broadened my mind, [...]