CHEERS FOUR FRIDAY

Enjoy the weekend!

— Looking for a new camera? Jennifer Collier makes paper ones. She also makes paper dresses (seen above).

— Minority Report is here. The sixth sense.

— Something I noticed. Kansas City is not as HD as New York City but has a new Sim City view like Portland.

— I love XL new logo, branding and website.

COVER OF THE WEEK

I love the semi-transparent vellum used for the jacket. Simply well thought out and perfectly executed. Chip talks about the design here.

Design by Chip Kidd
Published by Knopf
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STEVE JOBS BY WALTER ISAACSON

Steve Jobsbiography by Walter Isaacson is available today. Above is the approved cover. Below is the original iSteve book cover first proposed by Simon & Schuster and rejected by Jobs. The design-obsessed tech visionary said it was "the worst thing he'd ever seen."

CHEERS FOUR FRIDAY

HAPPY WEEKEND!

— Kansas City has one of the nations best downtowns. according to Forbes.

— Designing WITH instead of FOR can make a big difference.

— LOVE this identity by designed TunnelBravo

— Beginning our search for awesome nursery decor. Check out this photography by Sharon Montrose.

COVER OF THE WEEK

I really like the overlap of the images. A great simple cover design.

Design by Christopher Tobias
Published by Thomas Nelson
Purchase from Amazon

CHEERS FOUR FRIDAY

A late post due to a vacation to the beach.

— My wife is pregnant but pregnancy as Art?

— Mountain biker meets buck!

— While away on vacation I checked out the work of Dale Chihuly at an exhibit in St. Petersburg.

— Just in case you want to occupy wall street.

COVER OF THE WEEK

A well executed cover with great illustration by Dana MacKenzie.

Design by Charles Brock
Published by Fall River
Purchase from Amazon

EXCITING NEWS

CHEERS FOUR FRIDAY

— Looking for a place to eat before hitting up the galleries at First Friday? Try the Westside Local.

— It's that time of year. Nightmares Fear Factory's photostream.

— A tribute to Mr Steve.

— Letterheady - adjective 1. overcome by a strong emotion due to a letterhead design.

Photo by The Westside Local

REMEMBERING STEVE JOBS

A true revolutionary creative genius. If it wasn't for some of his creations I would have never become the designer I am. For this, I am grateful.





“I’m sorry, it’s true. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much — if at all."
— STEVE JOBS

COVER OF THE WEEK

A great cover from the '70s. I love the use of paper as the medium for the transition from tea pot to scorpion.

DESIGN RESEARCH & RESEARCH DESIGN

I met with a design student today and we were talking about research design and the importance of it. Research is a vital part of any design project but is design always part of a research project? I just read a great article by Kevin Walker via Design Observer about research in design and design in research.

Much of design is informed by research of some sort; research, on the other hand, is almost never informed by design. Over the past several months, my students and I have built a curriculum centered around the idea that research and design are two sides of the same coin. We took it for granted that research can inform design; what took us by surprise was the great extent to which design can, in turn, enhance research.

On that very first day of class, we were all handed a complex, real-world design project on airport security — a topic none of us knew anything about (except as travelers). 

Continue Reading at Design Observer.