Step Inside Design back issues from March 2008:
editor's desk
Mar 01, 2008; ... The debate over whether the spirit of the age sets the tone for design or if design determines the Zeitgeist is not about to be settled anytime soon. The relationship is intimate, and no matter how one sorts it out, this year's STEP Design 100 competition was surely a product of our ...
Virtual Artworks
Mar 01, 2008; ... IF IT EXISTS IN A DIGITAL WORLD, IS IT ART? As alternative universes go, it's pretty impressive: Second Life (SL, for the cognoscenti) is an online 3D virtual world peopled by avatars (customizable alternative self-forms or personae), a pixel-based global environment offering pretty much ...
Branding for Communities
Mar 01, 2008; ... AT THE BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART, ART IS MORE THAN IMAGES ON A WALL. INSTEAD, IT'S AN EXPERIENCE WITH THE POWER TO CHANGE PEOPLE ... AND THE CITY THE MUSEUM CALLS HOME. Like many museums housed at universities, the Blanton Museum of Art struggled with a lack of awareness in its own ...
Setting the Standards
Mar 01, 2008; ... PROTECT YOUR INTERESTS BY ENSURING EMPLOYEES KNOW "THE RULES." A COMPREHENSIVE EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK IS A BUSINESS ESSENTIAL. Quite separate from employment agreements specific to individuals, the handbook applies equally to all staff members. It documents general policies and rules and ...
Getting It
Mar 01, 2008; ... EVERYONE REMEMBERS THEIR FIRST TIME. We enter this profession armed only with what we have been taught, tempered by some measure of personal experience. The rest we learn as we go along. As we plot the course of our careers, inevitably there are points around which we pivot-moments of ...
passion it's a car ... it's an obsession
Mar 01, 2008; ... Passionate people are inspiring people. Whether they spend their weekends taking flying lessons, serving the homeless or training for marathons, their energy and dedication are enviable. Here's another remarkable designer who will inspire you beyond her art. Lynn Schulte doesn't look ...
color is... Blue Is Everything-and its Opposite, too
Mar 01, 2008; ... NUMBER ONE FOR NOW, NUMBER FIVE FOREVER Pantone fingers blue as the color of 2008-a switch only in hue (iris) from the blue that was the color of 2000 (cerulean), 2003 (aqua sky) and 2005 (turquoise). Tbe New York Times agrees: Watch those verdant-green eco-products all shift, to a ...
CROSS-POLLINATION
Mar 01, 2008; ... It's no longer a given that designers build their careers around a single label-say. architect or graphic designer-so it's only natural to take a closer look at the places where the disciplines bleed together. From March 28May 11, designer Elena Manferdini will explore the relationship between ...
SHOE FETISH
Mar 01, 2008; ... Flattering the feet of everyone from Nicole Kidman and Kirsten Dunst to Angelina Jolie, Christian LouDoutin's red-soled shoes are no strangers to the red carpet. But now the elegant lines of this designer's distinctly feminine creations have reached another milestone: They'll be featured in the ...
BUILD-A-BUG
Mar 01, 2008; ... Bug Labs is sort of like Build-a-Bear Workshop for tech-savvy adults ... only you don't have to brave the mall and thread your way through knots of screaming toddlers to create the gadget of your dreams. The company offers handheld components that snap together like Lego bricks. You buy a "base" ...
DESIGNING A DIFFERENCE
Mar 01, 2008; ... For all the talk about design's ability to change the world, too many commentators trot out work from the usual suspects when the topic turns to socially conscious design. Luckily, the web provides a broader (and perhaps more democratic) survey or designers efforts to effect positive change ....
DESIGN ALL-STARS
Mar 01, 2008; ... Think of Debbie Millman as the design world's Tom Brady: She always moves the ball forward. In addition to being a managing partner at Sterling Brands, she advances the national design conversation by hosting the online talk show Design Matters and writing for the popular design blog Speak Up ....
FLYING HIGH
Mar 01, 2008; ... Dario Antonioni considers himself an artist first and a designer second. Perhaps that's why the founder of design lab Orange22 always carves out time for self-initiated projects. His latest experiments resulted in the sleek, limited-edition furniture line Carbon22. The new pieces take carbon ...
MAIL-ORDER INSPIRATION
Mar 01, 2008; ... For more than a decade, Clark Whittington's Art-o-mat machines have made buying original art as easy as snagging a candy bar in the company break room. These retrofitted cigarette vending machines dispense everything from small oil paintings to pewter castings of crackers for S$-$y at roughly 90 ...
STUDY ABROAD
Mar 01, 2008; ... Milan may host the famous furniture fair, but it's Torino, Italy, that earned the impressive title World Design Capital-a crown jointly bestowed by the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (ICOGRADA) and the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design. During its 2008 ...
HIGH-DEF NAPKINS
Mar 01, 2008; ... Jay Jaber came up with the concept for NapAds while sitting at a bar writing down business ideas on a napkin. "I realized the napkin was blank," he says. "It was just a plain white space waiting to be printed on." Now his company gives marketers the chance to reach coveted 18- to 34-year-olds in ...
NAME THAT TYPE
Mar 01, 2008; ... The name-P22 Music Text Composition Generator-sounds a little buttoned-up and technical. But belying the apparent formality, this is an application a bit like Guitar Hero for type lovers. The folks at P22 type foundry made it simple: You tap out a few words on the Keyboard, then choose an ...
Q&A: SEAN ADAMS INTERVIEWS CHRISTOPHER HUELSHORST OF BUNGALOW CREATIVE
Mar 01, 2008; ... SA: Christopher, you've worked in many cities-New York; 'Washington, D. C; Atlanta-and you ended up settling in Kansas City. What is it about Kansas City that made you decide to stay? CH: I was in Atlanta and not really thinking about leaving, and Hallmark called. I'm originally from ...
MODERN DOG: 20 YEARS OF POSTER ART
Mar 01, 2008; ... MODERN DOG: 20 YEARS OF POSTER ART by Mike Strassburger & Robynne Raye $27.50, hardcover, 160 pages, Chronicle Books (www.chroniclebooks.com) Chronicled in the Nov./Dec. 2007 issue of STEP, the 20th anniversary celebration of Modern Dos rolls on. Modern Dog: 20 Tears of Poster Art is ...
WHEN ART MEETS SPACE/WHEN SPACE MEETS ART
Mar 01, 2008; ... WHEN ART MEETS SPACE/WHEN SPACE MEETS ART edited by Victionary $42, hardcover, 232pages, Victionary (www.victionary.com) If you have designed an installation for an event or exhibition, you know that the space your design will occupy, along with surrounding areas, plays a key role in how ...
COMIX!
Mar 01, 2008; ... COMIX! edited by the Museum für Gestaltung with texts by Pascal Lefèvre and Bettina Richter $29.95, softcover, 96 pages, Lars Müller Publishers (www.lars-mueller-publishers.com) Recent commentators in these pages have taken a closer look at the growing respect for what used to be ...
ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE INSIDE: THE BEAT WITHIN
Mar 01, 2008; ... ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE INSIDE: THE BEAT WITHIN by Louis E.V. Nevaer $19.9$, hardcover, 160pages, Mark Batty Publisher (www.markbattypublisher.com) "Perhaps, under the best of circumstances, life may imitate art," notes Adam Mansbach in Illustrations From The Inside: The Beat Within. "But ...
DESIGN MATTERS: BROCHURES 01
Mar 01, 2008; ... DESIGN MATTERS: BROCHURES 01 by Michelle Taute $24.99, softcover, 176 pages, Rockport Publishers (www.quaysidepublishinggroup.com) "With so many messages coming at us everyday, brochures have blended into our lives like camouflage," notes regular STEP contributor Michelle Taute in her ...
ON UGLINESS
Mar 01, 2008; ... ON UGLINESS edited by Umberto Eco $45, hardcover, Rizzoli International Publications (www.rizzoliusa.com) Why is it that the monstrous, grotesque, deformed and repellent have such a command on our imagination? Why are we transfixed by the unhappily fantastic, as well as real-life ...