Charlottesville is many things to many people: Jefferson-town, home of the Hoos, the nation’s fastest-growing tech hub, and now? Virginia’s design destination. For three years, hundreds of the commonwealth’s designers have convened in Cville for a week of connecting,...
Commentary — May 25, 2022 The celebrated designer and co-founder of Pentagram has passed away at age 94. Enlarge Colin Forbes in 1983. It is with great sadness that we note the passing of Colin Forbes, the celebrated designer and co-founder of Pentagram. Colin formed...
J Drake Web Design is thrilled to officially announce that we are a part of the UpCity community of top B2B service providers! At J Drake Web Design, we create custom graphic and web design solutions that help our customers set themselves apart from their competition....
Learning in the Bauhaus School: five lessons for today’s designers (and five ways the web still is Bauhaus) This is an excellent article on the history of the Bauhaus School from blog.prototypr.io and the movement that it started with artists and designers in the...
This is an excellent article about what it means to be a designer, Anne Quito has nailed the fact that art and design are two totally different fields. People often assume that I can draw very well because I have an art degree and I am forced to explain that I do not...
I truly believe that in order to be a good designer you need to know the history of graphic design as well as the fundamentals. It’s not that minimalism is the end all and be all of graphic design, but being able to reduce a client’s message to the bare...
