Brooklyn-based graphic designer Dana Tanamachi‘s custom chalk letterings, featrued on Graphicbirdwatching.com in September 6th, 2011, are the talk of the town these days.
Tanamachi’s beautiful works have appeared in various forms, from Ralph Lauren’s display window to a wall in Google’s New York City office.
Her most recent work appears as the cover of Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine February 2012 issue. More…
The Big Bang!

On September 17th it was finally settled that I was going to interview Brita Lindvall and Alexandra Falagara. Brita and Alex are the design duo that redesigned the magazine Bang. I headed off to Liljeholmen in Stockholm with my laptop, a bag of cinnamon rolls, nervous about what was going to be my first ’live’
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:output award | call for entries
It’s :OUTPUT season! Call for submissions are now open to all students in design and architecture. Works carried out by students usually disappear into drawers after presentation to a relatively small college audience. There the work remains... Read more »
GraphicDesign&
Pretty cool project by Lucienne Roberts and Rebecca Wright. Every GraphicDesign& output is a collaboration between graphic designers and experts from other fields. Check out the work here www.graphicdesignand.com Read more »
Online Shows for Creative Professionals
Kelby TV – is a video cast for Photography that gives you good tips & tricks. Kelby TV gathers several show like The Grid, with Scott Kelby & Matt Kloskowski and is a live talk-show about photography, Photoshop &... Read more »
Tutorial: Design a stunning typeface with just six shapes
Angus MacPherson walks you through how to create an elegant modular alphabet using Illustrator’s Snap To Grid command. http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/design-stunning-typeface-just-six-shapes Read more »
Tutorial: Add depth and texture in Illustrator
Stay on top and go through the endless of tutorials you ’ll find online. Jeffrey Bowman explains how to use grids, gradients and textures to add depth to your illustrations. http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/add-depth-and-texture-illustrator Read more »
The 1st Annual 3% Conference – Female Creative Leadership in Advertising

At the end of September, the 3% Conference happened for the first time in SF. Brought together by an extremely determined and passionate Kat Gordon, the conference collected women from across the country to discuss the egregious skew against females in advertising. Let’s get the facts straight – Women make up 80% of the purchasing
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