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Posted Rare Specimens, Indeed to Grids
So you think you've got rare specimens? I'll see your rare specimen and raise you one major rare specimen that I dug up in preparation for the upcoming HOW conference in June. I recently dug up some old stuff for...
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Posted Woodtyper to Grids
Nick Sherman is a young type designer at MyFonts.com, and a lover of wood type. He did a residency at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, has taught typography and letterpress printing at MassArt, and...
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Posted Film Titles Galore to Grids
Christian Annyas is a web designer who created an exhaustive, rich site, for his collection of screenshots of film titles. The site's organization and design make it easy to navigate and a great type resource. There's even a quick synopsis...
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Posted Incredible Archive of the Day to Grids
"Memory of the Netherlands" is an exhaustive archive of hundreds of thousands of Dutch images. I don't know who put this together, but that's one tired intern....
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Posted GINA BARNETT: Questions, Anyone? to Grids
We hope we'll see you this Thursday night at Gina Barnett's Speakeasy at the Helen Mills Theatre. We've blogged, we've probed, and we've e-mail blasted. So log out, swipe your Metrocard and join us for an insightful evening that will...
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Posted ARTFUL COMMUNICATION: Embracing Change to Grids
No matter how talented we are, at some point, we all experience that "writing on the wall" moment, when we know that it's time to move on. Maybe it's downsizing, or a new editorial direction-or whatever-but it's something no one's...
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Posted ARTFUL COMMUNICATION: Public Speaking (Ugh) to Grids
Teaching presentation skills is actually a small part of Gina Barnett's practice. Most of her work is devoted to leadership presence and communication excellence. Gina works with a wide range of executives to identify their communication strengths and areas for...
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Posted Back to School--for an MFA in Design to Grids
I met Ron Gabriel in the fall 2009 semester of my Just Type class in the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts, where I teach. He looked familiar to me, and I soon figured out why. A longtime...
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Posted ARTFUL COMMUNICATION: Gina Barnett to Grids
I first met Gina Barnett a few years ago when she came to our office at SpotCo to help the senior managers work on presentation skills. While the president of our company is a natural and gifted orator who's at...
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Posted What Does a Photo Producer Do? to Student Outreach
I'm always curious about how people end up doing what they're doing. Not all of us have a clear path mapped out while we're in school, and so a first job is often the place where careers begin to take...
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Posted Best! Books! Ever! (Part 7!) to Grids
We're refocusing our energies after a leisurely holiday break, slowly working our way through our growing list of designers and their best books ever. Join us as we inch towards the 50 designer mark....
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Posted Best! Books! Ever! (Part 5!) to Grids
This list makes 25! More great design books from your friends and peers--purchases you need to make to fill up that Herman Miller bookcase. If you have a book you'd like us to include, contact me at ganderson@spotnyc.com......
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Posted Blue Q, Baby to Grids
I heart Blue Q. And I heart the guy who runs it; Mitch Nash. Think you're not familiar with Blue Q? If you've seen Cat Butt magnets, Dirty Girl soap or Boss Lady compacts, then you know the wise guy...
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Posted Hardware: Flip Camcorders to Grids
I was given a Flip UltraHD Camcorder camcorder to make a short video for a website, and was soon sold on my sweet little toy's charms. Could I just use the video setting on my digital camera instead? Sure, but...
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Posted Best! Books! Ever! (Part 3!) to Grids
Now that I've exhausted the patience and goodwill of my coworkers, I've moved on to colleagues' favorite design reads. Please note that we're now on numbers 11 through 15. It's like Julie and Julia! Can we make it to 100...
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Posted Best! Books! Ever! (Part 2!) to Grids
Again, Andrea Dunham and I are on a crusade to solicit your thoughts on the one design book you make sure to keep handy at your desk (or night table, if you're really into it...). Before polling the masses, I...
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Posted Best! Books! Ever! (Part 1!) to Grids
Women on a mission! Andrea Dunham and I are on a crusade to compile the Best! List! Ever! We're hoping you'll indulge us when we come to your online doorstep in pursuit of the one design book on your shelf...
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Posted The Wilde Years [at SPD] to Grids
If you're an SVA graphic design department alum, then you remember sitting in the darkened 23rd Street amphitheater, hoping that your work would appear on screen in Richard's class. If you're as old as I am, you designed your name...
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Posted Can't Touch This to Grids
You may have your fancy SPD medals, but I gotta tell you, I think I have something that's pretty hard to top. I have an original Paul Davis portrait of my own--literally....
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Posted Student Photo Competition Winners Announced to Grids
The Society is pleased to announce the winners of our first-ever student photo competition. We were thrilled to receive over 250 entries from schools across the country to our Land/Sea/Air contest, and while it took us awhile to get our...
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Posted Student Photo Competition Judges Talk to Grids
I asked our esteemed judges for their thoughts on our first annual student photo competition and here's what they had to say:...
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Posted Paula Scher (class of '84) to Grids
I was one of those quiet, diligent students who worked hard, but said little in class. In the fall of 1983, my portfolio teacher at SVA, Paula Scher, wasn't having any of that; she actually asked me what I thought,...
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