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Meryl Epstein Recognized with Fellow Award: AIGA Arizona recognized the life work of Meryl Epstein from the Art Institute of Phoenix by awarding her with a Fellow award. The Fellow award program is a means of recognizing mature designers who have made a significant contribution to raising the standards of excellence in practice and conduct within their local or regional design community as well as in their local AIGA chapter. The areas of education, writing, leadership and reputation, as well as the practice of design are given equal consideration in measuring significant contribution.
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Green Studio ecoLingo Honored by American Graphic Design Awards: ecoLingo’s winning project, “Earth Day Seed Packet” was selected in the category of self-promotion. The custom designed desert wildflower seed packet was created not only as a promotional gift for customers and colleagues, but also as an educational resource to celebrate Earth Day.
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Words of Wool: An Interview with Rüdiger Schlömer by Nick Currie: European football club scarves are not so fashion-forward, but a clever knitting project remixes their type with style. Currie stitches together the story.
Design Patois by Steven Heller: Designers have developed a language for selling their wares, but why is so much of it so unintelligible? Heller critiques the lingua franca of promotional writing.
A Not-So-Sweet Tale of Digital Type by Andrew Twigg: Does the recipe for designing accessible websites have to skimp on beauty? Twigg wishes web type could look good and be good for you.
Desire’s Design by David Barringer: What do we want? Even if we don’t know, it doesn’t stop us from acquiring more. Barringer expresses his desire for self-awareness and restraint.