November 2011
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What can designers do to change the world? A lot. In this video, hear from leaders in the AIGA community about the importance of design in solving society’s trickiest and most pressing problems, see examples of how individuals, chapters and companies are already making a difference, and learn more about the ways in which you, and designers everywhere, can get involved in Design for Good—a...
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More Voice Project. Katie Costello covers Matthew Perryman Jones.
Just discovered The Voice Project today. Woah. Lots of amazing stuff here. Like this: Rosi Golan covering Ryan Adams. And TVP has a great mission.
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What I'm reading
A May evening and the sun squats motionless above these stately roofs. Two women sit in front of their little house, one on the humble stoop; the other on a chair on the lawn. They are reading. Both books are thick. (Textbooks? After all, we are blocks from the university.) And yet the two women read gently, almost lazily. There is no doom in the Midwest tonight. Only rows and rows of words. Small...
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NaNoWriMo
It’s November—officially the season for NaNoWriMo! Yay! Although I am (sadly) not participating this year, I was super honored to be invited to design this year’s poster. A collection of Baty-isms:
And to celebrate the official beginning of NaNo, here’s last year’s poster, by the uber-talented Kate Harmer:
And, Jason Munn’s awesome poster from a few years...