The theme of the 2009 AIGA design conference—Make/Think—focused on the designer’s role both in making artifacts and solving problems with creative (design) thinking. It was a great experience that was fun and inspiring, and lived up to my expectations. More
ArtPrize starts today. An interesting category of art on display around Grand Rapids is digital art, art that involves digital technology in its conveyance. I have wrangled a list of open source tools which anyone from the digital artist to the curious dabbler can use to explore creative possibilities without spending any money. More
Last week, we lit a match. There are AIGA chapters in Detroit and Chicago and student groups at local schools (GVSU, FSU and Kendall), but there is no professional group in Grand Rapids. As a way to encourage a maturation of the local design community, we have long planned to start a local AIGA chapter in West Michigan. More
Who says winning awards gets old? It always feels good. We’re happy to say that we’ve been kicking some butt in this arena recently – and it’s not even awards season.
In the Creativity 38 Annual Awards competition, we have 12 award-winning projects, five of which won a Silver, three Gold, and one Platinum. More
Graphic designers design for many reasons. Because it’s a job for a lot of us, we design for the client and their customers, and their respective needs. Some of us design for personal reasons — flyers for a friend’s band or cookbooks for your wife’s grandma. More
Inspired by Mark Hurst’s book, Bit Literacy, I tracked down the author and engaged him the way he suggests we all engage the various bit streams that inundate us with information every day: head-on and purposefully.
Here’s how it went down…
Curt: Where did the idea for the book come from?
Mark: Everyone’s going to end up with a lot of information in the workplace today. How are they going to react to that? What skills are they going to bring to bear to manage that information? More
I once worked for a company that installed a new email server every time the volume of messages in the system got too high for the old server to handle. More
Just returned from a week-long class at the Institute of Design in Chicago. It was a mix of classroom study and hands-on implementation giving us an overview of the school’s approach to innovation.
The attendees were a balanced cross section of designers, IT, healthcare, and strategist. More
For people with office jobs, staying strong and healthy can be difficult. If one person is sick, the contagion can spread quickly through poorly filtered ventilation systems, community food bags, and casual contact.
The sedentary nature of office jobs doesn’t help. More
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