by Angelynn Grant

Having weathered the turbulence of a changing industry and reaching a milestone anniversary, the Type Directors Club today is as collegial as it is venerable. Although the club’s name is derived from a now obsolete ... more

01.26.12

Opinion/Commentary
Entrepeneurial Thinking
by Terry Lee Stone

Graphic design’s traditional business model, that of service consultancy, is being challenged by what may be the future: creating products ... more

01.12.12

Design Issues
Learning to Be Happy, Part 2
by DK Holland

In this complex world, full of irony and contradiction, pain and suffering, if we can agree on what we value, that is the hope for the future—for ... more

01.05.12

Design Culture
Seeking Sparks
by Susan Hodara

Inspired public dialogue unearths novel concepts and connections impossible to predict. And, when we're lucky, it enables us to witness brilliance in real ... more

12.29.11

Typography
Akira Kobayashi
by Allan Haley

Akira Kobayashi’s work with Adrian Frutiger and Hermann Zapf, and his explorations of classic sans serif designs, produced valuable typeface revivals. Now he’s ... more

12.15.11

Emerging Media
Interactive TV
by Sam McMillan

A new generation of “smart” televisions is about to do to conventional television, and its handmaiden the advertising industry, what iTunes did to the music ... more

12.01.11

Design Issues
Learning to Be Happy
by DK Holland

If the purpose of evolution is indeed the development of consciousness, we will achieve that only by being open to new possibilities. Open to the ... more

11.24.11

Advertising
The Rocket Sled Goes Too Fast
by Ernie Schenck

Here’s the thing about advertising: It’s an intense thing. It commands your attention as few other things do.

11.17.11

Design Culture
Listening Like a Singer
by Wendy Richmond

There’s a freedom and playfulness that comes with dipping into a discipline outside your own. Especially when you take it seriously.

11.03.11

Business
One Size Fits None
by Tim Williams

Mirroring what other firms do is a strategic and a tactical mistake; it keeps your firm in the “red ocean” among undifferentiated competitors slugging it out ... more

10.27.11

Typography
A Retail Shop That Sells-Digital Typefaces?
by Stephanie Orma

Playtype is an eye-popping, brick-and-mortar shop where customers can walk in and purchase digital fonts (and a load of other ... more

10.20.11

Advertising
Technopocalypse
by Ernie Schenck

What if the cost of technology, that practically thinks for itself, is people who increasingly can’t?

10.13.11

Design Culture
Places of Solace
by Wendy Richmond

Physical spaces can inspire creativity. By vaporizing the thoughts that exist before crossing the threshold they can leave the mind clear and ready to ... more

10.06.11

Opinion/Commentary
Comic Relief
by Natalia Ilyin

Narrative critical writing using the graphic devices of comics could overturn the pomposity of post-postmodern academic critical writing. And designers, ... more

09.22.11

Business
Creative Briefs in Shifting Times
by Terry Lee Stone

With multidisciplinary teams, a plethora of delivery options, increasingly complex brand/consumer relationships and huge shifts in the ... more

09.15.11

Environment
Getting the Conversation Started
by Phil Hamlett

The Living Principles for Design is a framework to facilitate the development of sustainable solutions, ideas and visions. They also establish ... more