How do you know when you’ve officially “made it” as a designer? Forget winning prestigious design awards, having your work featured in coveted magazines, or even scoring the biggest clients. We’re talking license plates, baby! In a wild attempt to woo designer/typographer Jessica…
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Print Magazine Article: Design Celebrating the First 2000 Years of Computing
As the world looks back on the outstanding innovations Steve Jobs gifted our society, a small San Francisco-based design firm knows first-hand just how far we’ve come tech-wise. Creative Directors Erik Schmitt and Julio Martínez of studio1500 have spent the last three…
Print Mag Article: Design Pros Share Highlights of Brand New Conference 2011
Design enthusiasts from around the world gathered in San Francisco on September 16th for the 2nd annual Brand New Conference – the logo and identity event hatched from Bryony Gomez-Palacio’s and Armin Vit’s wildly popular Brand New blog. Eager to peek into the brand-making process by industry trailblazers…
San Francisco Chronicle: American Iconomics / Art exhibit by James Charles and Akira Beard
Money and celebrity. Like it or not, America has a madcap obsession with both. In “American Iconomics,” at the Shooting Gallery artists James Charles and Akira Beard explore our society’s fixation with and valuing of pop culture icons. But the means…