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The latest and best design and advertising projects from around the world.

Red Cross "Donating Is Easy" print campaign

In an effort to help rebuild the lives of the China earthquake victims, Guangzhou, China-based Itect Advertising created this print campaign to highlight the importance of every donation. It shows the simplicity of supporting the victims with money.

Featured Interactive

35 Winning Projects for 2008.

RED Universe

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"Founded in 1999, red Interactive Agency is an award-winning studio. red Universe is its offcial corporate site; thanks to its interactive ..." more

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Today's webpick

Cade Martin Photography This simple, elegant showcase for a Washington, DC-based photographer combines the concepts of focus and headline and couples them with copy that captures his thoughts on his creative approach. www.desginarmy.com

08.27.08 webpick of the day

IRO Cycle This experiential e-commerce site breaks out of the traditional e-commerce mold; it’s a sticky, authentic, community-building, shopping showcase for this fixed-gear bike manufacturer.
woodswittdealy.com

08.27.08 exhibit

Plazm #29 Self-published since 1991, Plazm magazine is the printed laboratory of Plazm Design. Plazm #29 continues the exploration of form, process and ... more

08.27.08 insights

Look Around. Great Ideas Are Everywhere. Designer Jakob Trollbäck on the importance of meaningful and beautiful communication, going against the tide of ... more

08.26.08 webpick of the day

Thriving Ivory This cinematic site is a seamless, engaging, rich media experience for the fan base of this San Francisco band.
www.winduprecords.com

08.26.08 exhibit

Brigid's Bags outdoor/print campaign Chicago-based Brigid’s Bags is a rapidly growing designer, manufacturer and online retailer of refurbished designer handbags. The ... more

08.25.08 exhibit

TYPO 31 TYPO, the international magazine dedicated to typography, graphic design and visual communication celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. The first ... more

08.25.08 webpick of the day

End Communications Work that loads dynamically through XML, script-based movement and menus that reveal when needed—all emphasize the work of this design/communications firm in Chicago.

08.25.08 fresh

Calagraphic Design Design firm / Elkins Park, PA "You don’t have to get a job; you just have to get people to pay you to do your ... more

08.22.08 exhibit

SoyJoy "Fortified with Optimism" print campaign Created by Santa Monica-based Rubin Postaer and Associates this print campaign associates energy, power and exuberance ... more

08.22.08 webpick of the week

Oregon College of Art and Craft OCAC is the only certified crafts college in the U.S. Its Web site, in conjunction with a major rebranding effort launched concurrently ... Read Review

08.21.08 webpick of the day

Kasian Inspired thinking in architecture is showcased in the stories behind the studio’s latest and greatest projects and an effective filter makes content painlessly easy to browse. burnkit.com

Everything is design. Everything! — Paul Rand

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Check out BOOOOOOOM an art/design blog by Vancouver, Canada-based designer, Jeff Hamada. It's good. We bookmarked it.

What do Seymour Chwast, Armin Vit, Rich Roat and Mike Janda have in common? They'll all be at ThinkTank 2008 discussing what's next in the field communication arts.

A darn good excuse to visit Russia: ATypI 08. The conference for anyone in (or interested in) the world of type. Sept 17 through 21.

Campaign '08: Power Play. Adweek asked a bunch (many of them said "No") of creative directors to take a stab at poster designs for the 2008 presidential race (the highest form of advertising). Come on, take a look—even if you've already made your choice.

In conjunction with NYTimes.com, AIGA developed this interactive piece for the Opinion section that demonstrates how good ballot design can improve the voting experience. In other words, How Design Can Save Democracy.

The 2009 Innovative Advertising Awards is accepting entries for digital, interactive and emerging advertising from around the world: guerrilla, viral and ambient marketing, Web sites, advergames, event/nightlife and mobile marketing, street teams and legal graffiti. (Competing against you will be some heavy-hitters, so don't bother sending anything that's not innovative.)

This month (next Wednesday August 27 at 6:30 p.m. to be exact), IxDA-SF is hosting Christian Robertson, associate director of design from Punchcut, who'll be sharing insights on mobile interface design and its key design components—motion and animation.

Introduced just about one year ago, PANTONE's Goe System is the first new color system introduced in the last 45 years. Not quite clear on the concept? Might be worth checking out next week's PaperSpecs PANTONE Goe Webinar.

Old Spice. It's Two Things. At least according to this site by Struck Creative and Wieden+Kennedy.

The goal of the Million Faces Project is to create the largest-ever image of Internet users. Um, as of yesterday, the project has quite a ways to go.