The following is my review of Designism 3.0, a presentation which took place last week at the Art Director’s Club in New York. This post first appeared on UnBeige. Thanks to Stephanie Murg for editing and some work on the images.
Last Thursday, I ventured out to The Art Director’s Club to attend Designism 3.0, the [...]

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Prescott Perez-Fox, photographed by Ruby Washington, New York Times
This Saturday, I had the dubious honour of being profiled and quoted in a New York Times article. The article dealt with job hunting in the Internet era. Unfortunately, this is an area in which I’ve developed a certain expertise, having learned hard lessons about applying for [...]

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Oh, Internet, you’re so cheeky…

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var s0 = new SWFObject(”http://www.perezfox.com/wp-content/plugins/flash-video-player/mediaplayer.swf”,”n0″,”375″,”303″,”7″);
s0.addParam(”allowfullscreen”,”true”);
s0.addParam(”allowscriptaccess”,”always”);
s0.addParam(”wmode”,”opaque”);
s0.addVariable(”javascriptid”,”n0″);
s0.addVariable(”height”,”303″);
s0.addVariable(”width”,”375″);
s0.addVariable(”searchbar”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”screencolor”,”0×000000″);
s0.addVariable(”overstretch”,”none”);
s0.addVariable(”showeq”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”showicons”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”shownavigation”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”showstop”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”showndigits”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”showdownload”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”usefullscreen”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”autoscroll”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”displayheight”,”303″);
s0.addVariable(”displaywidth”,”375″);
s0.addVariable(”thumbsinplaylist”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”autostart”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”bufferlength”,”3″);
s0.addVariable(”repeat”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”rotatetime”,”5″);
s0.addVariable(”shuffle”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”smoothing”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”volume”,”80″);
s0.addVariable(”enablejs”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”linkfromdisplay”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”linktarget”,”_self”);
s0.addVariable(”searchlink”,”http://search.longtail.tv/?q=”);
s0.addVariable(”file”,”http://www.perezfox.com/video/logo_bigger.flv”);
s0.write(”video0″);

Yes, it’s long but I’m sure you’ll get the idea after a minute or two…

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Design geeks have plenty to choose from in terms of around-the-house brickerbrack. Just take a quick browse at Swissmiss’s blog and you’ll see plenty. But this caught my eye — Pantone Mugs.

Practicing designers, and keen students, will know that the Pantone matching system is the colour system by which shades and hues are standardised. Keeping [...]

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Today I got a bit of welcome news in the mailbox — a logo I submitted to the American Graphic Design Awards was selected as a winner! Apparently, the contest saw 10,000 entries, of which, only 15% get selected. Made me feel good.
letter of congratulations, the details aren’t too important
But along with the congratulations letter came [...]

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With the unofficial end of Summer only one week away (!) I had take a moment to post and simply explain why this has been the sparsest month on this blog since I started actively blogging back in 2006. I hope I haven’t turned anyone off with my lack of witty graphical observations or controversial [...]

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Branding is no longer confined to supermarket shelves. Full scale branding campaigns for cities and countries are part of the design landscape, and we’re seeing it more and more, especially with events like the Olympics, and the increase in global tourism. The latest city to wake up to a design and branding makeover: Belfast, Northern [...]

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