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Can design be learned?

Friday, January 5th, 2007
Design Concepts, Musings | 8 Comments »

I’ve been seeing this discussion all over the internet—designers’ forums, mailing lists, blogs, articles, and what-have-you’s. I think it’s about time I give my own opinion about it. Besides, this blog’s been stagnant for months—it’s about time I write something on it. A lot of people say design is art per se, but I beg [...]

Designing for newspapers and the Web

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
Design Concepts | 2 Comments »

I was invited to give a lecture on graphic design for a group of students from a nearby university. These students are actually members of their school paper’s graphic design team, so obviously, the focus of the talk was for print. However, they also wanted to know the main difference in web and newspaper design. [...]