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Weapon of Choice Assualt SPD 43 Annual

As the annuals are arriving on your desks like hotcakes, we thought it would be nice to hear from this year's design team, Weapon of Choice, a design firm created last year by Todd Albertson and Tom Brown. As Albertson... MORE

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FINI

While the film opening title sequence has historically gotten a lot of love (Art of the Title is a great site), Dill Pixel has put together quite a nostalgic collection of typographic closers. Check them out here.... MORE

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PUB 44 CALL FOR ENTRIES: Best In Show!

Best in Show: A competition whereby dogs designs are judged as to which one is considered to be the most closely conformed to its written breed standard of excellence. It's time to take off your muzzles and unleash your inner design top dog.... MORE

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TONIGHT! Carin Goldberg: By the Seat of her Pants

Can you ever be too inspired? Definitely not. So after the sold-out night with Arem Duplessis, and the quickly-selling-get-your-tickets-already! night with James Victore, who could be next? It only seemed perfect to ask our Secret Santa for a night from... MORE

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Under Pressure

Regardless of having great content and amazing imagery to design with here at W, it often takes quite a number of typographical explorations to create the right solution for a layout (especially when I'm thrown a couple of curve balls... MORE

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SPD@FIT: New York Magazine at 40

Tuesday night was the first of SPD's fall speaker events, and it was a blockbuster: the audience was packed with notables, hopefuls, and everybody in between. It was a testimonial to New York Magazine's powerful influence in our city and... MORE

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Library Love

While researching typography for "a major motion picture," SpotCo art director Darren Cox unearthed a treasure trove of design goodness at the NY Public Library's Digital Archive. In this age of Google Images and big stock agencies, we often forget... MORE

"Did you try... "

"Maybe you should...""{Insert Editor's Name} would like to see...""Photo really wants..."Depending on where you sit in the Art Department, you've either uttered these words, or had them unloaded on you. You probably DID try...or, at least, you THOUGHT about it.... MORE

Destination: DestinAsian

I was first introduced to DestinAsian magazine about four years ago, when I was with a  photographer friend in Bali, and we had dinner with the editor-in-chief, Christopher Hill. Based in Jakarta, the Asian luxury travel and lifestyle magazine is... MORE

Be Careful What You Wish For

Michael Walsh, the art director of the Visual Arts Press, asked me to do the next SVA subway poster this past January. I was completely blown away, and of course, said I'd be honored. The next day, the lovely Ric... MORE

Inspiration: Milk Magazine

Since Fabien Baron left French Vogue to come back to America, you might think you need to bid the city of lights "adieu", but don't give up on France until you've checked out Milk magazine. I came across this French... MORE

Contents: May Intrigue

For some, the TOC is a blip on the way to the glories of the feature well, but for a few of us, they're the most fun to really dig into. Heck, books have been made, just for the glory... MORE

Spines of Slovenia

The payoff from a recent speaking trip to Ljubljana for EMZIN magazine: Some of the most beautifully designed book spines I've ever seen, tucked away on the shelves of the town's antiquarian bookshop. WOW.... MORE

Inspiration Found

Need some inspiration? Something to get those creative juices flowing? Check out ffffound. That's right, four f's. It's like a bulletin board of cool shit. Design, photography, graphics, typography. If you're a visual person there's something here for you.... MORE