Fight software piracy! Click here! Table of Contents Get a FREE issue Meet Emma now. High quality, low price, royalty free. October 10, 2005 for $subst('Recip.EmailAddr') Here's what you'll find in this edition of the Update: Editor's Note The Great Escape Look What I Made! 5 Hot Links Book Watch Heard it on the Street Mark Your Calendar Hot Job O' the Week I’m just back from Phoenix, where business consultant David Baker and HOW hosted our fifth annual Mind Your Own Business Conference. It was our largest gathering yet – 300 design-firm principals from across the country met to learn from an all-star lineup of marketing, finance and business gurus. But more important, they learned from each other. I’m always amazed to see clusters of designers – who might consider themselves competitors under other circumstances – huddled together over breakfast or after hours, talking shop and sharing best practices. All work … and lots of play. We’ll see you all again in 2007! P.S. The October edition of HOW’s famous Web Poll is now open. Cast your vote here. And watch for poll results in an upcoming issue. — Bryn Mooth, HOWDesign.com Email Update Editor THE GREAT ESCAPE A few months ago, a package arrived on HOW's doorstep. It was the debut issue of the reader-created HOWiezine, and inside were dozens of dazzling scenes that evoked a "Wish You Were Here" postcard kind of marvel. Turning the pages was like jet-setting through kaleidoscopic lands on some kick-your-heels-up road trip. And we were riding shotgun. It seemed the perfect answer to the question many of us are always racing after: how to rev our engines and barrel down the open road of unbridled creativity? Sparked by HOW Forum participants, the HOWiezine lets these online pals collaborate on a no-holds-barred creative project. Read more about it here. Then find out about the next edition in the HOW Forum. LOOK WHAT I MADE! We’ve reached a unique point in design history where we’ve moved beyond both the infatuation with and the backlash against technology. Today, the best designers combine the power of the computer with the tactile qualities of hand-made elements. A new book from HOW, to be published in 2006, will explore the power of the hand-made to help designers reconnect with their audiences and provide surprising new ways of seeing and resolving problems. Even the hint of a hand-made element can activate a surface, instill passion and energy into a medium, and reassure the recipient that human understanding and insight are the foundations for the message. Authored and designed by Chen Design Associates, this book will be a celebration of the presence of the human hand in visual communication and the breath of fresh air such a presence delivers into a field often challenged by predictable, passionless solutions. We’re looking for outstanding designs with hand-made elements to publish in the book. Interested? Download info on submitting your work. 5 HOT LINKS “Design” Inspiration This attractive blog features interviews with illustrators and designers. 400seconds Focusing on a new subject every month, this Australian Webzine includes feature stories, book reviews, movie reviews and other bits and pieces to inspire and amuse you. Art-Actually Art-Actually is a collective that creates dynamic installations, publications and events. Big Quiche Enterprises This design firm specializes in being funny. GraphicDefine Blog focusing on the business of graphic design. BOOK WATCH Build your design library with help from the HOW Bookstore. Color Index by Jim Krause Originally: $23.99 Your price: $19.19  (20% off!) Color Index provides more than one thousand color combinations and formulas - guaranteed to help you solve design dilemmas and create effective images for both print and the Web. From progressive colors to natural tones, Color Index makes choosing hues for any job easier! You will start working with color in exciting new ways and create original, eye-catching designs that will pop off the page. — Industry News — • Moved by a desire to help those affected by Hurricane Katrina, Ty Mattson, principal of Ladera Ranch, CA-based Mattson Design, had an idea: Gather art supplies and take them to a Red Cross shelter in Louisiana, where he’d lead displaced kids in creative play. Mattson solicited donations from fellow designers and, with his wife, joined a church-sponsored trip to the disaster zone in late September. The group spent several days in Slidell, LA, helping people reclaim their property and clear debris out of neighborhoods. When Hurricane Rita loomed, the group was evacuated to Jackson, MS, where Mattson broke out the crayons, paints and paper and, for two days, led a free-for-all creative playground. “To give these kids an opportunity to create was important to me as a designer,” Mattson says. “If I hadn’t had the opportunity to paint and draw and create as a kid--and been encouraged as an ‘artist’--I might not have found this path and profession that I love so much. To work with kids at that primary level of creativity--to see them mixing and brushing paint (some for the first time) was really incredible.” You can see a slide show of Mattson’s trip online.   • Art with Heart, the children’s advocacy group founded by designer Steffanie Lorig as an outgrowth of an AIGA/Seattle project, has donated its “Chill & Spill” books to displaced high school students in central Louisiana. “Chill & Spill” was created in response to the Sept. 11 tragedy to help kids deal with depression and stress from traumatic events. Lorig is traveling to Louisiana to help train high school counselors in using the book. Preview the book online. • Information-design and science geeks will love this: Oxford ecologist Philip Stewart has designed a new periodic table of the elements, an it’s caught on among his fellow scientists and in schools across the U.S. and Europe. Stewart’s redesign is the only one to be widely adopted since Dmitri Mendeleev created the original design in 1869. Read more about the new design at Slate online. • Pentagram, the celebrated multidisciplinary design group, announced last week that Woody Pirtle is to retire from the partnership. He’ll remain as a consultant, while pursuing new projects from his studio in New Paltz, NY. Pirtle joined Pentagram in 1987, and was influential in building the firm’s American practice, attracting partners such as Paula Scher, Lowell Williams and Michael Bierut. Pirtle said of his move: “This is an exhilarating time for me. Reestablishing Pirtle Design will permit me to do the kinds of things I love best, while continuing to grow as an artist and a designer. And remaining associated with Pentagram will let me maintain a relationship with my friends in New York.” • According to Pantone’s Fashion Color Report, designers are in a blue mood for Spring 2006. The company surveyed designers showing during New York Fashion Week in September to capture information on prominent colors, inspiration and signature shades. The current report of 10 top colors for spring fashion is dominated by blue hues, with Deep Ultramarine (PANTONE 19-3950/C=93 M=58 Y=0 K=22), Skyway (PANTONE 14-4112/C=25 M=8 Y=0 K=4) and Blue Tint (PANTONE 13-4910/C=33 M =0 Y=8 K=0). See the 2006 color report online. — Product News — • Also from Pantone is a new line of stationery products released last month. The collection includes notebooks, business card holders, memo pads and other paper goods, all in European sizing and in colors like Tomato, Dazzling Blue and Maize. They’re available at Sam Flax, the Museum of Modern Art store and online. Pantone Universe • FontShop has introduced designs from two new independent type foundries: PrésenceType, which founder and principal designer Thierry Puyfoulhoux runs from a town in the French Alps, and Club-21, a London outfit established by Julian Morey, who began his career with the legendary Peter Saville Associates. View their new fonts online at FontShop, and check out the Free Font of the Month: Présence Light Italic Expert. FontShop • DMI International Summit: Empowered Innovation November 30-December 2, Massachusetts College of Art (MassArt), Boston The summit brings together the best and brightest minds to examine the scope and depth of empowered innovation in creating products and services. Speakers include John Maeda, Richard Eisermann and Glen Walter. • Global Issues in Design & Visuality Parsons The New School for Design Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, New York City October 11, 6 p.m., “Youth Culture: The Art and Currency of Globalization” Parsons faculty member and noted design critic and curator Susan Yelavich speaks with Carlo McCormick, a senior editor at Paper magazine, about youth culture as the subject and object of art and commerce. October 18, 6 p.m., “Who’s Listening? Who’s Talking?” Susan Yelavich speaks with Katherine McCoy about the needs for designers to develop new strategies to navigate between their culture and the audiences they serve. From the HOWdesign.com Job Bank Position: Designer Date posted: 10/3/2005 Company: Morris! Communication, San Diego Email: steven@thinkmorris.com Job Description / requirements: Morris! Communication, a nationally recognized, award-winning, youth-minded and consumer focused visual communications firm seeks a full-time print and interactive designer with 2-5 years of professional design experience to join our stellar firm. We’re looking for passionate, resourceful, adaptive, highly creative and intelligent designers. This job is not for the weak at heart or mind. You must have attention to detail, the ability to see the big picture and effectively communicate to a wide variety of audiences. Strong conceptual and typographic skills are required with an expert knowledge of Mac graphics programs (InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, are a must! Flash and Dreamweaver are also preferred). Our high profile client base and outstanding corporate culture offer a great variety of creative opportunities from corporate and non-corporate identity systems to brand collateral both in print and new media. 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