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The show that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. We discuss graphic design in particular, and design in general, to equip you with lessons in process, practice, and inspiration. Get a new concept under your belt in mere minutes and unleash your creativity!

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Episodes

Design Guy, Episode 9, Designer's Attributes Pt. 3

Download Episode 9 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores the timeless principles of design and explains them simply. Now, we've been talking about the attributes of the designer. And today, we'll conclude this little rabbit trail with one final observation or truism. And while I call this an attribute, there's a sense in which it's really an aspiration or ideal that encompasses everything we want to be as designers. So, here goes: Designers have a love for The C...

Oct 08, 2007

Design Guy, Episode 8, Designer's Attributes Pt. 2

Download Episode 8 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. We're talking about the attributes of the designer. And we began last time by asserting that graphic designers take an interest in the world around them. We said that it's preferable to be a generalist, rather than a specialist. And what we mean to say in this is that it's not a good thing to know your profession to the exclusion of other things. You ...

Oct 03, 2007

Design Guy, Episode 7, Designer's Attributes Pt. 1

Download Episode 7 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. If you're just joining us, we're talking about the attributes of the designer. In the last episode, we established the idea that, as designers, we profoundly influence the work we do by the mere fact of who we are as individuals. Our unique way of thinking and solving problems, our personal style and perspective on the world, all have an impact on the...

Sep 17, 2007

Design Guy, Episode 6, Harry Houdini and the Attributes of a Designer

Download Episode 6 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. If you've been following along, you'll know that we've been talking about the very beginning stages of the design process, and the skills we need to develop in order to gather the information that fuels our creative work. So, moving right along, there are some practical process things we could talk about next, like brainstorming and how to get ideas, ...

Sep 11, 2007

Design Guy, Episode 5, How Design Begins, Pt. 2

Download Episode 5 Design Guy, here. Welcome to the show. This is the program that offers a pause from our technical manuals: all the keeping up we do with tools, technologies, the state of the art. Now, we've got to keep up, of course. It's essential we stay current. But it also can be overwhelming. There is so much to keep up with, it's like drinking from a firehose. We get cognitive overload. And it's hard to retain things that we know are going to continue to change. On the other hand, we wa...

Sep 03, 2007

Design Guy, Episode 4, How Design Begins

Download Episode 4 Design guy here. Welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. Last episode we explored Graphic Design. We laid out a basic definition first by clarifying it's difference from fine art. In fine art, it's perfectly okay to be subjective and to allow for individual interpretation, or to have no message at all. But Graphic design is different in that it must support an objective typographic message. If it doesn't co...

Aug 27, 2007

Design Guy, Episode 3, On Graphic Design

Download Episode 3 Design guy here. Welcome back. This is the show that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. Last episode we defined design as the act of creating order out of chaos. And whether we're talking graphic or interior or environmental design, the basic definition stands because we're all engaged in the same PROCESS. It's a process that STARTS with a number of unrelated pieces and ENDS with an ordered unit. (1) Looking closer, Graphic design has its own set ...

Aug 20, 2007

Design Guy, Episode 1, Intro Episode

Download Episode 1 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is our premier episode, so, by way of introduction I'd like to explain what the show is about, and how you'll benefit. We live in a design-driven age. We've witnessed a productivity revolution and the spawning of vast amounts of new products and services. Along side of that, we see the rise of design as the high ground or competitive advantage, the differentiator, really, that allows business to stake out and hold unique market positi...

Aug 06, 2007

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