Dan’s 2016 blog posts
The HOW Design Live conference took place in in Atlanta this year. I participated in a double-session with a few other members of the SVA Masters in Branding faculty. With me were Debbie Millman (hosting the double-session discussions), Sem Devillart, Tom Guarriello and Richard Shear. Our topic: Death of the Supermarket. My topic – Why I Never Buy...Continue reading
Great look at, and revamp of, London’s 100-year-old Johnston100 typeface. Interesting how that typeface quietly defines the look of the entire city and city services, and has been doing so for 100 years. It’s getting an update, thanks to Nadine Chahine and company at Monotype. Additions include a hashtag (#), apparently not in frequent use in...Continue reading
The world of design is changing rapidly. The practice of design – not as quickly. The methods we typically use to design things today are based on decades-old practices. (I have project plans from the 1980s to prove that – I save a lot of things.) Following is a list of six things that I believe...Continue reading
On Friday April 29 I opened the two-day IDSA North East Conference in Manhattan. And I adhered to the AMA theme (Ask Me Anything), by selecting a number of questions that had been posted on their web site. Those included a question about speeding up FDA’s process on approving 3D printed products – known in FDA language as “additive manufacturing.” To address...Continue reading