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Design School
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The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
Chip Kidd: Book One: Work: 1986-2006 (Chip Kidd) by Chip Kidd
Trek: David Carson, Recent Werk by David Carson
Hand Job: A Catalog of Type by Michael Perry
The End of Print by Lewis Blackwell
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop by Timothy Samara
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Darcie Wf Peifer
Posted at 7:48 pm on 5-25-2009I am a camera snob and I love the pictures this app (and Reid) take. It almost makes the eventual death of the Polaroid bearable. Awesome new website GSI!
Eric
Posted at 6:39 pm on 5-27-2009FYI, you might want to check out the RPX plugin. RPX lets you log in via Facebook, Google, AOL, Twitter, OpenID, Wordpress, Blogger, and many other services. Basically, no one needs to create a separate local account for your site. Very well implemented (at least the WP version).
Reid
Posted at 8:39 am on 5-29-2009Thanks for the heads up. I’m for sure going to check that out. Personally I really wish that OpenID had caught a hold in the marketplace. It seems like if it was going to, it would have by now. Not sure if facebook is going to be able to take that role on by default as more web apps cross integrate.
Nick Ohrn
Posted at 1:28 pm on 5-29-2009Reid, your new site is beautiful. One of the prettiest sites I’ve ever seen done with WordPress. I mean that.
Now, I just want to see more content on the blog
Reid
Posted at 11:09 pm on 6-1-2009I’m getting there, I’m getting there. All this pesky work keeps getting in the way. Thanks for the nice comments.
Nick
Posted at 8:59 pm on 6-16-2009I think the key is to have an audience that you can talk to that are genuinely interested in the things that you have to say. Ashton Kutcher is this huge celebrity and there is a lot of celebrity worship out there, so he has a pretty big audience to work from.
You or me, we work in a field where there is an audience, but you have to work a lot harder to get them to listen because everyone is trying to get you to listen. I don’t see any problem with shooting out a twitter message saying “Hey I’m playing around in Photoshop with some sweet new brushses, come look – **ustream link**”. You’d probably get a few people, increase your profile in their eyes, and, if you’re good, possibly have a bigger audience the next time you give it a go.
So that’s the main problem: getting the audience. Once you get that, if you are actually good at the stuff that you’re doing, then you’ll be golden. I’d certainly watch a designer create a web template from scratch if for nothing else then to see the whole process from someone who actually knows what their doing’s perspective.
Dan Cameron
Posted at 10:43 pm on 6-16-2009Yeah, this site is design is excellent. I wish I could afford for you to re-design my sites.
Wow, I’m really digging this a lot.
Blake Himsl Hunter
Posted at 11:27 am on 6-18-2009could you send me a link to the Seth Godin post? sounds interesting
Aaron
Posted at 1:55 pm on 7-16-2009I would wear it proud and tell everyone that I had the honor to be managed by this awe-inspiring builder of greatness.
Jesse Gavin
Posted at 3:14 pm on 7-16-2009I am always up to date on the GS blog. Count me in on your t-shirt give away madness.
Amber
Posted at 7:03 pm on 7-16-2009I’ve handed out more Giant Squid business cards than my own.
sarah k
Posted at 8:12 pm on 7-16-2009love em.
Nick
Posted at 5:38 pm on 7-18-2009I’d wear an awesome squid shirt like that!
Also, I love the default image you set for people who don’t have Gravatars. Seriously, awesome.
Brooks Seymore
Posted at 8:46 pm on 7-19-2009Found my way here through your Polaroid gallery. I’ve added the feed to my newsreader. Love the graphic & typography on the shirt… so classic.
Joel Berg
Posted at 12:23 pm on 7-22-2009Is this supposed to be serious? Hunger systemtically impacts 36.2 million Americans. Low-income Americans would need more than $20 billion — yes billion — extra dollars per year in food purchasing power to end U.S. hunger. The ten million donation is only 1/2400th of the amount of money needed to solve the problem. Giving people the false impression that a few tweets can end a major social problem is absurd. To truly end this problem, we need serious government leadership and for corporations to raise wages, not just give a few token donations.
– Joel Berg
Executive Director
New York City Coalition Against Hunger
Reid Peifer
Posted at 1:05 pm on 7-22-2009Hey Joel, thanks for the comment and for providing some much appreciated context to the discussion. The title and the proposition is of course facetious. I was looking at the Ashton Kutcher effort through the lense of marketing and communication and wondering if the technology is applicable to normal folks.
Absolutely the amount of money being mentioned is scarcely a drop in the bucket, and I’m sure it’s presented far more as a marketing effort than out of any serious attempt to address a systemic and hegemonic problem.
But… what can you or I take from this example? Here’s a dude with a built in audience (something we lack) and some new and interesting communication vehicles (which we have at our disposal). Can we leverage things like Twitter or UStream to create instant and live dialog and better communicate our message? Or are these tools dependent on the built-in audience that only comes with celebrity?
What kinds of communication vehicles have worked for your organization? Are you using Facebook, twitter, etc at all to any success?
I’m currently volunteering with an innercity school to try and use the web and some of these tools to more effectively benefit the students and their community. All insight would be much appreciated!
Reid
Posted at 1:09 pm on 7-22-2009Yea! Tshirts for everyone. My order of blank shirts finally arrived, so me and wife will do some printing this weekend. I’ll track y’all down for addresses and sizes on friday.
Nick
Posted at 12:04 pm on 7-25-2009Yay! I’m so excited to get a squid shirt.
Julie
Posted at 8:49 pm on 7-28-2009ooh, I want one!
shane
Posted at 8:57 pm on 7-28-2009ooohhhh … I would totally sport your brand. So do we get the color choice? Cuz baby blue is in! or yellow or red or anything bright and cheery.
Nick
Posted at 3:41 pm on 8-17-2009Yay, got my shirt! Totally rad design and feels great. Thanks, Reid!