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Social Media Venn Diagram

The Social Media Tee is unlocking the awesome potential of behavioral disorders.

This Weekend: Printers Row Lit Fest

The Chicago Tribune's Printers Row Lit Fest is this weekend! This outdoor festival offers the opportunity to hear authors speak and debate their works. It also features unique booksellers, poetry readings, exhibitors, kids activities, cooking demos, wine tastings, and much more. Hours are from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on June 6-7.

Free Days at Chicago Art Museums

FREE Tuesdays at MCA Chicago starting June 12!

FREE Thursday and Friday Summer Evenings at AIC starting on Memorial Day!

Terms-Of-Service

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released Terms-Of-Service - created to help you monitor the policies for the web sites you use everyday, and show how they change over time.

Adobe Artists

Adobe Artists is Adobe's new site to promote CS4

Alberto Cerriteño

Stunning work by Alberto Cerriteño.

MySuiteStuff

Very cool.

GUY ware

Guy ware at Geekware. Nice...

Print’s Student Cover Competition

Print's Student Cover Competition is a unique opportunity for students to have their work featured in an award-winning design publication that is distributed internationally. The deadline for Print’s 2010 edition of the competition is June 30, 2009.

Professors and students interested in participating can download competition rules, specs and a logo from the Print web site.

Social Designer

Social Designer (brought to you by Design 21), is an online design competition and marketplace that aims to create fun, socially-relevant graphics for tees, totes and other goods by holding weekly design competitions.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

10th National Design Awards

Cooper-Hewitt announces the winners of the 2009 National Design Awards.

Find Everyday Timesavers on Adobe TV

The Show 'n Tell Show

The Show 'n Tell Show
May 20th, 7pm
The Whistler
2421 N Milwaukee
Chicago, IL

The Show 'n Tell Show, Chicago's first and only Live Talk Show centered around design, is a late night-style show where the guests are the city's most dynamic designers, photographers, illustrators and poster-makers. They each present a single project in a lively evening full of drinks, laughs, and design.

The Show 'n Tell Show is hosted by designers Michael Renaud and Zach Dodson. But they would never show without SpokesMom, the spokesmodel that is also your mom. She provides clueless commentary and blind encouragement to the guests, as well as comic relief from design that takes itself too seriously.

But the best part of the show are the show offs. The next show's guests will include:

Jay Ryan (The Bird Machine, 100 Poster, 134 Squirrels)
Paul Hornschemeier (Mother, Come Home, The Three Paraoxes)
David Barringer (There's Nothing Funny About Design, Opium)
Zach Huelsing and Matt Kessler (Eye Rocket Books)
Doug Fogelson (Front 40 Press)

This is a FREE Event.
For more info visit The Show 'n Tell Show web site.

Camp Firebelly 2009

Camp Firebelly started as a way to connect fresh talent with nonprofits in need. The collaborative environment is intense but offers an incredible opportunity to learn firsthand what professional life is like through the socially responsible vision of Firebelly Design.

If you’re serious about using your talent and creativity for something good, this is your chance for immersive involvement in our studio’s process, methods and daily grind. Campers stay in Firebelly’s Chicago loft office, sleep in sleeping bags and eat healthy organic/vegetarian grub. You’ll participate in research, brainstorms and client critiques.

They are hunting for the most talented + brightest college design students (or recent graduates) to join them for the 2nd Annual Camp Firebelly design charrette. It’s 2 weeks of intensive collaboration with an amazing nonprofit focused on empowerment and expression. Working together, you’ll strategize, design and develop the perfect solution and probably change the client’s future forever.

For more information or to get a camp application visit the AIGA Chicago or Camp Firebelly web sites.

The Great White Owl

Love love love this white owl ceramic pitcher.

Happy Birthday

Designcollector is 6!

You Can Be Good Without God in Indiana

via Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign

Bite: Letterpress Art and Design

Bite: Letterpress Art and Design
April 19 1-5pm
1821 W Hubbard, #202
Chicago, IL 60622

The Post Family is excited to bring you Bite, a collection of letterpress art and design. They'll be showing beautiful work from the Hamilton Woodtype Museum, Bruno Rohner, Hatch Show Print, Yee-Haw Industries, Dan Funderburgh, Hand-cranked, Plural and The Post Family to name a few. So go join them for a hot cup of tea this Sunday afternoon at their gallery, The Family Room.

So Long Speak Up

They are closing Speak Up for good.

National Poetry Month

The 2009 poster, designed by Paul Sahre features the lines from T. S. Eliot's poem,
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

WilloBAG

WilloBAG reusable totes won't let you forget the bagnanas.

The Design Show

SAIC: The Design Show
May 14
5:30–8:30pm
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
Department of Visual Communication
37 South Wabash, 11th floor
Chicago

The Design Show is a portfolio review and public reception showcasing the work of SAIC Visual Communication graduate students and undergraduate seniors. The show will take place in the school's newly renovated instructional space for the Department of Visual Communication. SAIC design students and faculty will be present and refreshments will be served.

This event is free to the public. No RSVP necessary.
For more information call 312-629-6820 or email careers@saic.edu.

Fame's Movie Poster Typography

Anyone else think of Coke when they see the typography used in the Fame movie posters?

Typography

Typography by fabianohikaru 

This Is Democrazy

KEEP SPENDING AND STAY IN DEBT

TapeSwell

Practical, pretty, tape from TapeSwell.

Reading...

STEP Inside Design, Dynamic Graphics Fold
via UnBeige

Sean Adams Interviews Chip Kidd
via STEP Inside Design

Design Less, Think More
via AIGA

Selling the Future: Design and the Financial Crisis
via Core77

Where the Wild Things Are

Love these posters designed by Mojo, LLC.

welcome home!