Telenovela-Red is the New Fire-Engine-Red

Launched in 1954, Telemundo , a division of NBCUniversal, is a Spanish-language media company revolving around its television network that features “original productions, theatrical motion pictures, news, and sports events, reaching U.S. Launched... 

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Lance Wyman in Norwich

Lance Wyman at the launch of his show, You Are Here, at The Gallery at NUCA. Photo: Finola Gaynor Remember when the Olympics produced great graphic design? Lance Wyman at the launch of his show, You Are Here, at The Gallery at NUCA. Photo: Finola... 

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Semi-Permanent creative conference

It may be called Semi-Permanent, but the annual design festival down under is making quite a mark on the creative calendar. Concieved in Australia and popping up in all major cities across the country, it now has an international reach, bringing its... 

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Can you make it look… even worse?

It’s an unusual design brief – to make the product as unappealing as possible. But that’s exactly what proposed designs for cigarette packaging in Australia hope to achieve, using a grim combination of photography, graphic design and type…... 

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links for your weekend / take five

By now you’ve probably noticed some changes around Mint! New contributors, new features, and now a little layout/title change for Links for Your Weekend . February marked Mint’s 4th anniversary, and with that I felt some “new-ness”... 

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Winners Revealed At New-Look D&AD Awards

The D&AD Award winners were announced last night in a new-look ceremony at London’s IMAX cinema. Well, some of them were, we’ll have to wait until September for the Black Pencils It’s D&AD’s 50 th anniversary which means... 

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Announcing the 2012 D-Crit Conference: Eventually Everything

The coming weeks will see plenty of student exhibitions as graduating classes the world over complete their degrees and enter (or re-enter) the professional world. SVA’s Design Criticism is no exception, and in two short years, the annual conference... 

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Data in Real Life: Jonathan Harris at RISD

Photos by Jess Chen unless otherwise noted Illustration by Ray Hu “I remember talking to college classmates of mine, there was this general feeling of like anxiety and panic about what our lives were going to be like and the choices we were going... 

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Need to Know: PSFK Conference NYC Recap

As our Twitter followers probably know, we had the opportunity to attend the annual PSFK Conference last Friday. (The 2012 edition of the annual event shares its name with PSFK’s first print magazine, “Need to Know,” which was distributed... 

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Premium Effects to the nth Degree

Launched in 2006, n — yup, just “n” — is a DTH (direct to home) satellite television platform, a l? DirecTV, in Poland, offering nearly 100 channels from around the world, over 20 Polish language channels and a new range of premium... 

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