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Span Graphics Support Bird-Safe Design Strategies

kyle@gdusa.com — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:08:18 +0000

Flyway City, an exhibit at the Chicago Architecture Center, was designed and co-curated by architecture firm Studio Gang in collaboration with graphic design studio Span.

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Cooper Hewitt Unveils National Design Collection

kyle@gdusa.com — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:04:55 +0000

Cooper Hewitt will mark the nation's 250th anniversary with a multi-year installation of the museum's permanent collection.

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Cheers To 50 Years! CF NAPA Celebrates Milestone

kyle@gdusa.com — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:00:11 +0000

For 50 years, CF NAPA has played an integral part in developing what is considered today the contemporary wine label. For the past 24 years, under the leadership of David Schuemann, the firm has developed and restaged countless successful alcohol brands through story, packaging, and visual ethos.

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TDC Announces Finalists, Intros Type-High Physical Award

kyle@gdusa.com — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:30:08 +0000

The Type Directors Club has announced 161 finalists from 40 countries for its TDC72 competition. This marks the first time the global organization has announced competition finalists in its nearly 80-year history.

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Sagmeister To Host ADC Annual Ceremony

kyle@gdusa.com — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:30:11 +0000

World-renowned designer Stefan Sagmeister will serve as host for this year’s Art Directors Club 105th Annual Awards ceremony, taking place on May 13 in New York. He says: "The ADC has always been proof that craft, beauty and commerce aren’t enemies — they’re co-conspirators."

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International Design Day 2026

kyle@gdusa.com — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:00:19 +0000

IDD 2026's theme The Spaces In Between focuses on the physical, digital, and emotional spaces where human connection is shaped.

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Cooper Hewitt Gala To Honor Legends Along Side Winners

kyle@gdusa.com — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:47:36 +0000

Contemporary Gala Honorees include Adobe, MillerKnoll, Target, Tiffany, Thom Browne, Tory Burch, Maya Lin, Jenna Lyons, MacKenzie Scott; and Martha Stewart. Historic figures include Peter Cooper, Frederick Law Olmsted, Louis Sullivan, Candace Wheeler, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Adobe MAX London – Watch Free On Demand

Gordon Kaye — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 14:45:48 +0000

Adobe MAX is returning to London on April 24 to showcase the latest advancements in design and generative AI. Join online to experience the keynote, draw inspiration from leading creatives, explore the latest products Adobe has to offer, and receive expert insights - all streamed directly from London.

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Joe Treacy Talks Typefaces At Museum Of Printing

Gordon Kaye — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:10:34 +0000

Renowned expert Joe Treacy will give a talk at the Museum of Printing on April 26 on how to design a typeface, punctuated with stories and examples from his own award-winning journey. Joe will also provide one-on-one professional critiques for student type designers with a chance for a new typeface to be produced on treacyfaces.com.

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Girls Who Print Honors HERstory

Gordon Kaye — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:00:57 +0000

March marks the return of Print HERstory Month, an annual celebration dedicated to amplifying women’s voices in the printing industry that coincides with Women’s History Month. It is hosted and founded by Girls Who Print.

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Ford Foundation Presents ‘Reverberations’

Gordon Kaye — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:27:02 +0000

The ‘Reverberations’ exhibition at the Ford Foundation seeks to revises design history by spotlighting Indigenous, Black, and People of Color (IBPOC) designers and cultural figures. The subtext: a challenge to narrative of design tradition as a single dominant line.

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The One Club Sets ‘Freelancer Connect’ Business Guidance Event

Gordon Kaye — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:34:37 +0000

Organized by The One Club, the inaugural Freelancer Connect conference will provide practical business advice and a networking opportunity to a wide range of solo practitioners. Confirmed speakers include ad and design leaders, successful freelancers, and tax and accounting specialists.

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GDUSA Moves To Brooklyn

Gordon Kaye — Sat, 11 May 2024 21:01:17 +0000

GDUSA moved to the Prospect Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn earlier this year, after 60 years of publishing on or within a few feet of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Brooklyn is a leading producer of irony and Publisher Gordon Kaye has a few very brief thoughts along those lines.

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The One Club Names 2024 Hall Of Fame Inductees

Gordon Kaye — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 21:11:43 +0000

The One Club proudly announces the creative legends selected as 2024 inductees into the prestigious Creative Hall of Fame. The HOF has a rich heritage of honoring the lifetime achievements in all forms of advertising and design, starting with the induction of Leo Burnett in 1961.

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SVA MFA Products of Design Speaker Series: Eason Yang

Gordon Kaye — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:43:21 +0000

SVA's MFA Products of Design welcomes designer, creative director, educator, and social entrepreneur Eason Yang.

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TAPPI and AICC Announce SuperCorrExpo 2024

Gordon Kaye — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 20:48:18 +0000

Registration for SuperCorrExpo 2024 is now open. The largest event for the corrugated packaging industry will take place September 8-12 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando FL.

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TDC Opens Call For Four Global Scholarship Programs

Gordon Kaye — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:59:52 +0000

The Type Directors Club has opened the call for applications for its four global student scholarship programs. Programs recognize BIPOC, female-identifying, Native American and First Nation, and needs-based students.

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Poster House Sets Spring Season

Gordon Kaye — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 00:25:13 +0000

Poster House will present four new exhibitions for the spring season. The two main exhibitions are ‘Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters’ and ‘The Anatomy of a Movie Poster: The Work of Dawn Baillie.’

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Second Print Design Summit Is Set For February

Gordon Kaye — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 13:48:25 +0000

Print Design Academy presents the 2nd Annual Print Design Summit, a virtual conference dedicated to empowering graphic designers with the skills they need to create award-winning print and packaging designs.

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AIGA MN and Walker Art Center Set Lecture Series

Gordon Kaye — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 19:32:43 +0000

The Walker Art Center and AIGA Minnesota are co-presenting the Insights Design Lecture Series. Featuring leading graphic designers and design thinkers from around the world, the series takes place March 12–April 2.

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Gordon Kaye: Making Sense of 60 Years

Gordon Kaye — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 18:35:28 +0000

‘The more things change, the more they remain insane.’ As GDUSA winds up its sixth decade, a few thoughts about the evolution of graphic design as a discipline and profession, how it has morphed and changed over time, and how to make some sense of it all.

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The One Club Opens Creative Hall of Fame Nominations to Membership

Gordon Kaye — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 14:27:15 +0000

After decades of having its Board of Directors nominate the esteemed inductees for the biannual Creative Hall of Fame, The One Club for Creativity is for the first time opening the nomination process for 2024 to its global membership.

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Gordon Kaye: Our 2023 Inhouse Design Awards

Gordon Kaye — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 13:52:11 +0000

GDUSA Editor and Publisher Gordon Kaye on the magazine's 2023 Inhouse Design Awards showcase, and the potential role of inhouse designers going forward in helping to rebuild social trust and usher in an era of communications truth and transparency.

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Top 5 Reasons To Attend MAX 2023

Gordon Kaye — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 13:12:36 +0000

Adobe MAX, the Creativity Conference, is one of the largest gatherings of graphic and web designers, creative and art directors, and other leaders. GDUSA readers save big on a conference pass with promo code M23GDUSA.

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3rd Brody Monograph Explores Past 30 Years Of Career

Gordon Kaye — Mon, 08 May 2023 12:35:12 +0000

A follow up to two highly successful monographs on the work of Neville Brody showcases projects completed since the mid-1990s. Thematic sections address typographic experimentation, information graphics, cultural subversion, and design systems by a creative legend.

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Haddad & Partners’ Sweet 16th Anniversary

Gordon Kaye — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:57:45 +0000

Ad agency, Haddad & Partners celebrated its 16th anniversary — and March Madness — and a new agency logo — at an epic party last week. UConn basketball greats engaged agency members in a pop-a-shot competition at Dockside Brewery in Milford CT.

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TDC Opens Call For Three Scholarships

Gordon Kaye — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 17:44:33 +0000

The Type Directors Club has opened the call for applications for their three student scholarship programs. The programs all have an entry deadline of March 24.

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Girls Who Print Mobilizes For Print HERstory Month

Gordon Kaye — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 17:41:53 +0000

The fifth annual Women’s Print HERstory Month returns in March to inspire the “fierce, fabulous females of print.” Girls Who Print is seeking to mobilize women of the industry around the event.

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Encyclopedia Of UX Design Set For Spring

Gordon Kaye — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 14:22:57 +0000

Rockport will publish the Universal Principles of UX this spring. The encyclopedia has been compiled with the help of UX experience design guru Irene Pereyra.

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Work That Feels (And Is) Meaningful

Gordon Kaye — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 12:27:54 +0000

Gordon Kaye and Sasha Kaye-Walsh are editors at Graphic Design USA/GDUSA. These comments first ran in October 2022. They deal with GDUSA's 2022 Health+Wellness Design Awards, the annual Responsible Designers feature, and more news and ideas.

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Running Ahead: 50 Years of Cougar®

Gordon Kaye — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 12:04:09 +0000

For fifty years, Cougar Paper has defined the path for print as an art form and invited those who hold it in their hands to be captivated by its beauty. Domtar, sponsor of GDUSA's 2022 Responsible Designers report, is celebrating this impressive history.

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AIGA Worldstudio Scholarships Awarded

Gordon Kaye — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 17:50:28 +0000

AIGA has announced the winners of the 2022/2023 AIGA Worldstudio Scholarships. Awarded annually, the scholarships encourage social and environmental responsibility and cultural awareness in the next generation of artists and designers.

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SCAD Campaign Celebrates Film Festival

Gordon Kaye — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 15:05:07 +0000

Over 20 SCAD students and alumni collaborated to create a dynamic and extensive creative campaign, shot in historic Savannah, to celebrate the SCAD Savannah Film Festival’s 25th anniversary.

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Chip Kidd’s Batman Artwork Collection on View at MICA

Gordon Kaye — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 12:47:39 +0000

Legendary Chip Kidd, a Batman expert, was inspired to invite some of the world’s greatest illustrators, cartoonists and designers to sketch one-of-a-kind covers with complete creative freedom.

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Richard Poulin on Rudolph de Harak

Gordon Kaye — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 12:36:32 +0000

RIchard Poulin has written the first major publication on the life and work of celebrated mid-century modernist graphic designer Rudolph de Harak. The subhead: Rational Simplicity.

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‘Where Are All The Black People’ Conference Returns

Gordon Kaye — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 01:01:23 +0000

The One Club has announced its 12th annual ‘Where Are All The Black People’ diversity conference and career fair. It will take place in New York and online October 6-7. The hybrid conference is free.

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TDC Sets First Confab On Native North American Typography

Gordon Kaye — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 17:48:03 +0000

This virtual event has been created to foster dialogue between Native and non-Native type communities, includes presentations, discussions, and workshops. The dates: November 11-12.

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Gericke, Beeler, Johnson, Jacobson Are SEGD ‘Classmates’

Gordon Kaye — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 15:24:53 +0000

SEGD’s class of Fellows for 2022 includes Michael Gericke of Pentagram, Julie Beeler and Brad Johnson of Second Story, and Alan Jacobson of Exit Design. Past Fellows include Ed Schlossberg, Paula Scher and Massimo Vignelli.

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ADC Pioneers To Be Honored

Gordon Kaye — Wed, 11 May 2022 21:59:37 +0000

The One Club will present the Manship Medallion to a select group creative leaders who have played a significant role in ADC history. Gail Anderson, Brian Collins, Paula Scher, Richard Wilde, George Lois, Eileen Hedy Schultz are among those recognized.

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Parsons Book Marks 100 Years of Communication Design

Gordon Kaye — Sat, 07 May 2022 17:45:48 +0000

The New School’s Parsons School of Design has published a new book written and edited by several professors which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the school’s Communication Design program.

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