Design Services Survey

Dear friends,
As you all know, I work as a freelance designer, providing branding, graphic and web design services. I am working to increase my client base, and I have created a 4-question, anonymous survey. If you could please take 5 minutes to answer these questions, it would help me greatly. Also, feel free to share it with your friends. Thanks, thanks, thanks.

Just watched (for a second time) a presentation on Google Wave. This is going to be a new way to communicate and collaborate at a personal or a professional level. I am very impressed, and I can't wait to get an invitation to an account. The system is still beta, and you are able to use it only by invitation. Cool stuff!

Rich Black or 100%K

(For Offset printing)

For when deciding between using Rich Black or 100% black in your designs: 100K is better for small text (smaller than 18pts). This helps avoiding registration issues AND if the client requests changes to the text, this will only affect one plate rather than all four (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black).

Client - Vendor Relationship

Interestingly enough, nobody would behave like this with a doctor, I wonder why?

Paul Rand, Apple's logo designer

Check out this video of Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, talking about Paul Rand, the designer who created Apple's logo, among many others: IBM, ABC, Cummins Engine, Westinghouse, and UPS.

It is refreshing to see the respect and admiration of a client for a designer.

Typographic experimentation

This morning I attended a workshop on typography, as part of AIGA Boston's celebration of its 25 years. The instructor was Michelle Bowers, a very talented designer, who does fantastic typography work. You can see her work here, and below are the images that I created during the workshop. It was a lot of fun!

Polish posters

Here is a gallery of some of my favorite Polish posters. The designer, Franciszek Starowieyski, died last week. He was one of the masters of the great postwar Polish poster school