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Flashmaster Jon

It’s a heck of a lot of fun to play around with the flash interactivity of Jon Ruppel’s personal website. So much fun, in fact, that it can put ideas into a young person’s head… crazy, out-of-control, isometric ideas.

Posted in Amusement, Artists & Designers, Course Related, Portfolio Workshop, Visual Concepts, Web

Good is dead? Really?

While [the royal] we are at the business of being critical of designers, what is up with Chip Kidd’s website, GoodIsDead.com?

Posted in Amusement, Artists & Designers, Course Related, Design History, Editorial, Typography

Yakov, my Yakov.

The beautiful, late-career typographic illustrations of Yakov Chernikhov (1889–1951) have been published in a new, georgous volume, Graphic Masterpieces. There is loveliness in the hand drawn, cryllic forms.

Posted in Amusement, Artists & Designers, Course Related, Editorial, Repost From Cited Source, Typography

Bob Ross.

You never forget your first painting teacher.

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Ken Rockwell, thee I adore.

It’s true. I adore Ken Rockwell. Who is he, you ask?! He is one of our generation’s most influential photographers! If you need an introduction, start here.

Posted in Artists & Designers, Course Related, Education, Resources, Visual Concepts, Vocation & Profession