The Austin Center for Design: Q&A with Jon Kolko

The Austin Center for Design is a new school aiming to bridge social entrepreneurship and interaction design. Core77 asks Jon Kolko, the school’s director, to fill us in on what’s coming up for September The Austin Center for Design is... 

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Open House: Austin Center for Design

A you may already know, Core-fave Jon Kolko has launched a new educational institution, the Austin Center for Design , in Austin, Texas. There’s a virtual open house coming up at the start of April, so you may want to check it out. Here’s... 

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To Maple or Not to Maple

Established in 1910, as the new logo clearly indicates, Mount Royal University began as Mount Royal College up until 2009 when the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada granted it the designation of University, becoming only the fourth university... 

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Pepsi Smile Pod like Pop-Up store to attract customers

Call it a coincidence or smart designing; the “Pop-Up” by New York-based designer John Heida is a portable store that closely resembles the newly designed Pepsi logo to attract more customers for their routine shopping. Easy to transport and install,... 

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A few things I’ve learned about typeface design

By Gerry Leonidas Teaching on a postgraduate course feels very much like a spiral: the annual repetition of projects, each a vehicle for a journey of education and discovery for the student, blurs into cyclical clouds of shapes, paragraphs, and personalities.... 

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One Element too Many?

Ed.’s Note: This redesign is from early 2009, so I realize I am breaking one of our rules, but I thought this was a very intriguing solution that deserves discussion. — Armin Aarhus University (AU), established in 1928, is Denmark’s... 

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The Most Relevant Identity Work of the Decade

I gave myself a deadline of January 15 to do a recap of identity work in the 2000s, assuming that it wouldn’t be an editorial faux pas to do a list of this sort well into the new year. So here it is I gave myself a deadline of January 15 to do... 

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The image of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic 1916

In a lecture that he gave at Sligo in 1962 the Yeats scholar Edward Malins traced the poet’s own shifting attitude in 1916 to the events that had taken place in Dublin in April, and his attempts during the months that followed to find words for his... 

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A Blob Walks Out of a Clock Tower in Brisbane

Let me first volunteer that I’ve tried to convince Armin to send us to these destination locations but the only Brisbane I’ve seen is here in California, which wouldn’t make it too thrilling. This particular branding is for Brisbane... 

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Haircut 100: it’s all their fault

Among the many theories advanced by Neville Brody at his D&AD President’s Lecture last night was that 80s popsters Haircut 100 are responsible for the decline of popular culture in Britain today… Brody placed the exact point at which... 

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