On Jet Exteriors, a Parade of Vanilla

As domestic airlines have taken a more sober approach to the business of flying, fancy fuselages and lively paint jobs have faded away. The color of choice these days is white.

NYT: BUSINESS DAY, by JAD MOUAWAD

The colorful paint jobs on airplanes have gone the way of free meals and pillows.

After decades of frenzied competition and staggering losses, domestic airlines have taken a more sober approach to the business of flying, with their first priority making money. And so the fancy fuselages and lively paint jobs — remember TWA’s bold red lines? — have gone the way of free meals, pillows and checked bags.

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TED PARTNER SERIES: Paula Scher gets serious

the importance of play and keeping it fresh and real.

Graphic Content | Good Chemistry

December 06, 2011
By STEVEN HELLER

Graphic designers such as Simon C. Page are working with the scientific community as it reaches out to be better understood by people both outside and within its ranks.

In something of a trend, graphic designers are working more closely with the scientific community as it reaches out to be better understood by people both outside and within its ranks. Simon C. Page, a London-based graphic designer, is the latest example of what I like to call a sci-graphiste. Page, who has a degree in applied mathematics, has designed a series of 10 posters for the International Year of Chemistry. Not only does the subject resonate with him, Page says, but it’s also “a bonus” that his work is “helping an industry which is struggling to be heard.”

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'Comic Sans Project' Seeks to Save the Web's Most Hated Font

Some fonts get no respect. This is true of Comic Sans, the ’90s-era Microsoft typeface that sought to emulate comic book text and failed miserably, by most accounts.

The font’s childish, unsophisticated scrawl and overuse by armchair designers has rendered it taboo in most artistic circles, and the sophisticated web at large enforces a moratorium on its use. Some have even campaigned to rid the web of it forever.

But despite the haters, French designers Thomas Blanc and Florian Amoneau have sought to spark a movement. Their new Tumblr, entitled the Comic Sans Project, tries to re-imagine the much-maligned font by posing a simple aesthetic question: What if the world’s most recognizable logos used Comic Sans?

'Comic Sans Project' Seeks to Save the Web's Most Hated Font

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Selling Books by Their Gilded Covers

Jay-Z signing a copy of “Decoded,” his intricately jacketed memoir.

[NYT December 3, 2011]

By JULIE BOSMAN

Even as more readers switch to the convenience of e-books, publishers are giving old-fashioned print books a makeover.

Many new releases have design elements usually reserved for special occasions — deckle edges, colored endpapers, high-quality paper and exquisite jackets that push the creative boundaries of bookmaking. If e-books are about ease and expedience, the publishers reason, then print books need to be about physical beauty and the pleasures of owning, not just reading.

The Fashion Network Association (SFSU) Presents IMPRESSIONS

Winter Runway Show

December 9th, 2011
Jack Adams Hall
Cesar Chavez Student Center
San Francisco State University

$10 General Admission
$5 with student ID

Doors Open at 6:30pm
Show Begins at 7:00pm

Donate 1 Article of Clothing & Receive 1 Raffle Ticket
Donations to Goodwill

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