CQ36 International Call for Entries

We are now accepting entries for CQ36. Categories include: Advertising, Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography and Fine Art. Open to all professionals, students and educators in all countries. 
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Deadline: April 25, 2014

Estrada @ the AIGA

Estrada: Sailing Through Design is a fabulous exhibition at the AIGA National Design Center in New York City that ends October 7th. Featured are Spanish designer Manuel Estrada’s myriad book covers, sketchbooks, as well as actual mockups of his concept-driven work.

Alexander Isley at the TDC

The Type Director's Club has a new exhibition “Working with Words” of the design work of Alexander Isley.
Isley has designed books, magazines, exhibits, memorial inscriptions, store interiors, packaging, signage, watches, dinner trays, posters, shopping bags, catalogs, restaurants, album covers (remember those?), videos, web sites, billboards, and truck fleets. Most of these incorporate the use of typography in inventive ways. His first real design job was at M&Co. He then went on to art direct Spy magazine. Alex founded his company in 1988.
Found via the TDC.org

Coroflot's Design Salary Guide

All designers should check out and contribute to Coroflot's Design Salary Guide, a great resource that's updated in real-time.

Wimbledon Like You've Never Seen Before

WIM•BLE•DON from BRYANKU on Vimeo.
Student designer Bryan Ku dramatizes a Wimbledon match between tennis greats Federer and Nadal.
Found via Quipsologies

Why Google Will Never Beat Old-Fashioned Design Research

Steven Heller explains Why Google Will Never Beat Old-Fashioned Design Research
Found via The Atlantic

Creative Resumé

QR CODE - Content-rich Resume from Victor petit on Vimeo.

French design student Victor Petit, looking for an internship, created this amazing resumé. He placed a QR code on the back of his resumé over a photo of himself, and the QR code links to a video of his mouth talking. Really creative and a great use of QR codes.
Found via Brand Flakes for Breakfast

Victorian Infographics

BibliOdyssey, A blog of some lovely Victorian illustrations/infographics. Found via BoingBoing. Photo: Peacay

A Peek at Sagmeister Studios

It's truly a design studio website for our reality-obsessed, over-sharing age: Stefan Sagmeister's website that shows the studio in real-time. While away the hours watching Sagmeister's studio. Fascinating and yet a bit creepy.

Letterpress: The Feedback Loop Notebook Project

Twenty-five leading letterpress printers were asked to create fifty unique notebooks. They could do whatever they wanted. Their limited edition books will be sold on Felt & Wire Shop, in a special storefront, with 100% of the proceeds going to Design Ignites Change, to support their School: by Design youth mentorship program.
The Project launches Wednesday, September 8th.

Summer Reading: Gopher Illustrated

Gopher Illustrated

As August slowly comes to a close, it's time to finish up your summer reading. Right now I've got my eye on Gopher Illustrated. It's from Venuezela and can be found in select stores.

Found via MagCulture

Logo in Motion

A mesmerizing piece of art commisioned by London’s V&A museum and produced by Troika.
The piece, titled Palindrome, was recently installed in a near-by Tube station. I would easily miss my train, being so entranced by the work.



It’s also great to see an institution be willing to play with their logo as well.

Found via Creative Review

World Cup T-Shirts

None of us here at CQ are soccer fans, however even we've noticed the excitement mounting for the World Cup. And there's a ton of Fifa-related design products being produced. In particular, I like the t-shirts supporting the Dutch team designed by Bas van de Poel and Daan van Dam.

Initially it looks very simple and minimal. But when your favorite player scores a goal...

...you can celebrate as if you were him. 

Found via DesignBoom

License to Design

Ken Carbone writing for Fast Company has designers take a look at some state license plates. License plates are a huge revenue stream for state governments, sadly they are also often poorly designed. Above, design by Ken Carbone
Found via Quipsologies

We are happy to serve you

Leslie Buck, who created the iconic New York coffee cup has passed away. The Times takes a look at the man and the Anthora.
Found via The New York Times

Hand-drawn maps

Slate posted a great article on hand-drawn maps. Often technically inaccurate, they still provide exactly what the user needs to get from point A to point B.

Found via Arts & Letters Daily

The End of Word It

The beginning of 2010 brings the end of Word It, from the folks at Underconsideration. The last Word It is “The End.” Participate before it ends!

Ah! Letterhead

Great letterhead by Herb Lubalin. One of many great pieces of ephemera on AMassBlog. This one is by Herb Lubalin.

Found at AMassBlog

The Evolution of the Coca-Cola Contour Bottle

To mark the 94th anniversary of the iconic Coca-Cola coutour bottle, The Dieline takes a look at the its design history.

Found via the TheDieline.com

Lubalin Now

Lubalin Now is the inaugural exhibition in the newly re-located Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography at the Cooper Union.

The show includes recent posters, publications, and motion graphics by internationally recognized graphic designers that spotlight an emerging trend toward expressive lettering and typography.

Original sketches, magazines, logotypes, and posters selected from the Lubalin Center Archive will illuminate Herb Lubalin’s influence on contemporary graphic design. Work by artists include Marian Bantjes, Deanne Cheuk, Gretel, Jessica Hische, HunterGatherer, Justin Thomas Kay, Like Minded Studio, Christopher Martinez, Non-Format, Roberto Quiñones, Strange Attractors Design, TV Land and Herb Lubalin.

On view through December 8, 2009.

Image by Post Typography