Straight to Business: Icograda Design Week in Madrid will showcase the best examples of how communication design, effectively managed and integrated into a company’
s strategy can result
in an improved brand image, more efficient use of resources and positive economic results.
Straight to Business 2010 will be the opportunity to learn from international case studies fostering partnerships between design and business, and an exceptional networking opportunity for international companies and design professionals from Spain and across Europe.
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Kristen Wentrcek.
To-Do Lists is exactly what it sounds like. With these daily tasks, we offer a glimpse into the everyday lives of people we know.
With a degree from NYU and four years’ experience in real estate development, Kristen Wentrcek started Wintercheck Factory in June 2009, in Brooklyn, with the idea of creating accessible, cost-effective design produced in the U.S. You are maybe wondering why the name “Wintercheck” Factory? In fact, the name is derived from her own last name, Wentrcek, and an official attempt to have her name finally pronounced correctly.
Today, the multi-tasking, multi-skilled young woman behind design company Wintercheck Factory shares with us her ambitious to-do list for Monday, May 10, 2010. … more
Paola Alarcón es una reconocida asesora de diseño y decoración que hace algún tiempo comenzó con un ambicioso proyecto llamado 1/1 DESIGN. El objetivo que se planteó fue ofrecer un servicio personalizado de asesoría integral en diseño y decoración que satisficiera a los clientes más exigentes. 1/1 DESIGN representa actualmente en Chile a 12 de las más importantes marcas de diseño y decoración del mundo –Paola Lenti, Edra, Bisazza, Venini, Moroso, Artifort, por nombrar algunas– para ofrecerlas de manera personalizada a sus clientes en Chile, articulando las mejores combinaciones de productos para cada uno.
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Alice Twemlow
The elegant Alice Twemlow is a design writer, curator and critic based in New York City. A long-time voice within the graphic design community, she has directed several conferences for the AIGA and is the author of What is Graphic Design For? (Rotovision, 2006) and StyleCity New York (Thames & Hudson, 2005). … more
LoveLiza doles out advice for healthy design (photo: Dennis Koot)
Liza Enebeis is a busy lady. When she’s not designing stuff in black and white, this Rotterdam-based typography fiend is off at design conventions around the world, interviewing type-types for Typeradio. In her spare time she offers witty and occasionally useful advice to troubled designers everywhere, on her blog column Letters to LoveLiza. And when inspiration strikes, she Twits (Tweets?) “horrible poems” that she calls Design_Rhymes. … more
Liza Enebeis, in LoveLiza mood
Liza Enebeis is a busy lady. When she’s not designing stuff in black and white, this Rotterdam-based typography fiend is off at design conventions around the world, interviewing type-types for Typeradio. In her spare time she offers witty and occasionally useful advice to troubled designers everywhere, on her blog column Letters to LoveLiza. And when inspiration strikes, she Twits (Tweets?) “horrible poems” that she calls Design_Rhymes. … more
Riley Johndonnell
There are big talkers and there are big doers. Riley Johndonnell is the latter. Don’t let the rosy cheeks, electrifying smile, and fanciful fashion fool you. In the decade since we at Base first met them at Surface, we’ve witnessed Johndonnell (former creative director, with his then-partner, publisher Richard Klein) develop their pivotal magazine along with many other Surface initiatives, including the renowned Avant Guardian showcase of emerging talent in American photography, … more
Full house at the Palacio de Congresos de Madrid
The MAD Design Conference last Saturday and Sunday was by all accounts a huge success. Madrid’s Congress Hall was packed— more than 1,600 visitors attended the two-day event. MAD’s 14 speakers covered a range of design-related topics and media, and master classes delved deeper in typography and information architecture. Everything went according to plan and schedule, and no equipment imploded, exploded, or melted down.
BaseMotion’s Jean-Marc, from Belgium, spoke at the event, in Spanish, and gave a presentation in English about, in part, the integration of words and typography in video. He closed his presentation with a few episodes of Perspectives, BaseMotion’s online “unterview” series, which has become something of an online sensation … more
Riley Johndonnell
There are big talkers and there are big doers. Riley Johndonnell is the latter. Don’t let the rosy cheeks, electrifying smile, and fanciful fashion fool you. In the decade since we at Base first met them at Surface, we’ve witnessed Johndonnell (former creative director, with his then-partner, publisher Richard Klein) develop their pivotal magazine along with many other Surface initiatives, including the renowned Avant Guardian showcase of emerging talent in American photography, … more
