Emerging Media
Web 3-D
by Joe Shepter
It’s tough to make predictions about where Web 3-D is going. The safe answer is “forward.” But given its tortured history, it's fair to doubt that rich 3-D will make it ... more

Typography
It's not how we teach typography, it's how we learn typography
by Dr. Shelley Gruendler
The limited typographic offerings of design and trade schools continue to do a disservice to their students ... more

Business
Pricing and Negotiating
by Maria Piscopo
Anyone who feels as if they're losing ground while negotiating with clients, then it's time to try something else. In many ways, creatives have to ... more

Advertising
"Nessun Dorma" or "People Get Ready"?
by Ernie Schenck
Is the purpose of what we do to validate the patterns of the past? Is that why we’re here? No. We are art directors and copywriters and ... more

Typography
Typographic Cheap Tricks
by Allan Haley
Even though the economy is supposedly on the road to recovery, it still makes sense to have a collection of low-cost typographic tricks in your arsenal of ... more

Design Issues
Where Our Wild Things Are—Part 2
by DK Holland
At no time has a working understanding of ethics been more essential because it is so lacking. A continuation of DK Holland's two-part ... more

Design Culture
Permission to Loiter
by Wendy Richmond
An artist’s work cannot begin with a business plan. It’s antithetical. The most authentic endeavors—the personal projects that stick and are the most ... more

Typography
House Industries Debuts Eames Century Modern
by Angelynn Grant
Part foundry, part creative cultural collective, House Industries often finds inspiration in the work of mid-century modern ... more

Design Culture
Contemplating White Space
by Wendy Richmond
There’s a new exhibit at the Guggenheim in New York, Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum Rotunda. Imagine the confidence ... more

Design Issues
Where Our Wild Things Are—Part 1
by DK Holland
While free-falling into an economic abyss, doing the ‘right thing’ may seem difficult for just about everyone. The irony is, of course, that ... more

Emerging Media
Can SoDA Speak?
by Joe Shepter
The Society of Digital Agencies was formed to provide standards to protect agencies and reduce chaos but, even with the critical backing of Adobe, rarely has an ... more

Advertising
MacGyver Marketing
by Robbie Vitrano
Confidence, optimism and other ingredients of innovation and economic recovery, rise and fall on some belief in a way forward. But to drive it requires more ... more

Business
Copyright and the Internet
by Tad Crawford and Arka Chatterjee
A review of some of the key cases that explore the evolving area where the application of general principles of copyright law and the ... more

Opinion/Commentary
An Agency at 50
by Brian Howlett
In the agency world, there is often that one shop that defines your career, maybe not so much on a professional level, but on a personal one. The one shop ... more

Design Issues
My Experimental Year
by Stefan Sagmeister
When he started to conceive of his experimental year away from client work in 2008, it took graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister exactly two minutes to ... more