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The Provocative and Prescient Work of Archie Boston Jr.

Eye on Design

In 1967, the Boston brothers launched Boston & Boston, one of the first Black-owned creative agencies in the country. After he married, Boston took a position at the ad agency Botsford-Ketchum for eight years, while simultaneously starting his own firm, Archie Boston Graphic Design. Chapter of AIGA in 2007.

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The mechanics of non-human personas

UX Collective

Yes, there are important movements like sustainable design, eco design and circular design. Design For The Real World by Victor Papanek / Photo via Twitter We can replace “industrial design” with “interaction design”, “UX design” or “service design” and the quote is still accurate.

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21 Famous Graphic Designers That Anyone in the Design Industry Needs to Know in 2023

Shillington

Working with producers, developers and fellow designers, she aims to create work that intrigues and teaches others. Back in 2018, Tea was recognised one of Australia’s #OUT50 LGBTQ Leaders by Deloitte. She had designed for many cultural sites in her old hometown, San Francisco.

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“Design is everywhere here”: a Nigerian design guide

Design Week

Filling an education “gap” Bolanle Banwo Creative education in Nigeria has not been progressing at the same rate as the industry, designers tell us. While this helped her to see the value of strategy, she did not feel “passionately” about it, and she later shifted into visual work at a branding agency.

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Women You Should Know in Graphic Design History

Tuts Plus

A visionary in the 1950s, she made use of graphic design to create clean and efficient directional signs in many major airports and stations, as well as Madison Square Garden. She was trained at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture, and her first job was working alongside industrial designer George Nelson.

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Serious Playfulness: 6 Young Firms Balancing Experimentation and Pragmatism

Azure Magazine

We view these very seriously – it is through what we call “the aesthetics of the background” that we find a significant amount of architecture’s political agency. In both cases there is an interest in the political agency that emerges with the challenge to the “aesthetics of the background.” The firm’s Blow Up the Wall!

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RISD’s New President Is a Signal of Changing Priorities in Design

Eye on Design

Of course, design has always mattered to designers, but Maeda was leading a growing chorus of voices evangelizing for the value of design to a tech and business audience. In 2008, Nathan Shedroff founded a Design MBA program at California College of the Arts. She is a poet.