Gung Hay Fat Choy!
This traditional, paper cut dragon features this years Chinese zodiac animal. Happy lunar new year!
Your Profit
Is My Fear
Jean-Benoit Levy, noted Swiss poster designer, created this poster concerning the powerless position an individual has facing the war effort throughout the world.
Altered Lanscape
Altered Landscape, a celebration of the Nevada Museum of Art's 80th Anniversary is now on exhibition in Reno, Nevada. A lavish book, designed by Brad Bartlett.
Vanishing Species Stamp
This commemorative stamp, featuring an Amur tiger cub, is the latest edition to the USPS campaign to raise funds for vanishing species. It was illustrated by Nancy Stahl.
Limited Edition 9/11 Poster Available
Studio Hinrichs has produced a limited edition 9/11 commemorative poster to benefit the NYC Firefighters Brotherhood Foundation.
Spark Pro Competition
The 2011 Spark Competition registration runs through September–November and is open to all designers, architects, and industrial designers.
Happy Birthday Hatch Show Print!
A Nashville original, Hatch Show Print celebrates its 132nd year as a letterpress shop. They have created posters for America's country and western stars for generations.
Cheeky Covers
Bloomberg Businessweek introduces two covers for the Valentines issue on the "Infidelity Economy". Click here to peek at the men's cover.
Industrial Designer Stamps
United States Postal Service announces the publication of 12 commemorative stamps on American Industrial Designers in July 2011.
Happy Lunar
New Year!
@issue team wishes everyone a prosperous year.
@issue
Back issues (single copies or complete sets) of @issue: Journal of Business and Design are available for sale from Corporate Design Foundation. Contact CDF here.
365 Typographic Calendar
The 2011 365 Calendar is now available for the tenth year. For more information, click here.
American Craft Redesign
American Craft Magazine, published over the last 70 years by the American Craft Council, boasts a new look and feel in the December/January issue.
Levi’s
Water<Less Jeans
A change in the finishing process let’s Levi’s cut water use by as much as 96% in its new Water<Less jeans line, a total savings of 16 million gallons of water by spring 2011.
Twitter Cookbook
Author Maureen Evans condenses over 1,000 recipes – from lemon lentil soup to biscotti – down to 140 characters or less.
Unique Poster
35th annual American Indian Film Festival
“Day of the Dead” Tequila
Dr. Lemon Tequila in Argentina marks Latin America’s Day of the Dead festivities (November 2) with this advertisement, designed by Plenty in Buenos Aires.
Logo Licious!
Peleg Top’s latest book on international logos has just been published; it’s an interesting array of global large and small firms.
Hand/Eye Magazine
Hand/Eye describes people, places, products, projects and ideas that bridge the worlds of art and craft, design and development, culture and commerce, and environment and ethics.
Scout's Honor
US Postal Service has just released a commemorative stamp celebrating the 100 anniversary of the Boy Scouts in America, designed by Craig Frazier.
PUBLIC Bikes
Rob Forbes, founder of Design Within Reach, has launched PUBLIC, a collection of modern bikes and gear for cyclists who want to ride in style.
TO Watch
From designer / architect Tokujin Yoshioka comes a sculptural stainless steel watch for Issey Miyake. The hands are interior faces that move independently to tell the time with hour etched on the outer face.
Ammunition adds HeartBeats
for Lady Gaga
This is the latest extension to Beats by Dr. Dre highly successful headphone line. It's both a fashion accessory and a high-end audio product.
Doublespeak
Euphemisms – substituting a positive description for a negative one – have been a device used by marketing and advertising writers forever. For example, apartment ads that can only promise that it is “clean and sunny” are a sure sign that the place is cramped and drafty with a fresh coat of paint. If it [...]