I was perusing the latest HOW Design Annual and came across an article on pricing trends. It was a report on the data HOW collected via their pricing survey. Two numbers popped out at me. The first was the low range of hourly graphic design work in the Midwest: $17. Wow. That person must have […]
There’s been a change in leadership at Minnesota’s Flash User Group. Nate Pacyga had been leading the group for a while and decided to step down as manager. He put out a message to the group in the hopes that he’d find someone to take the reigns. Luckily, two people were interested in managing the […]
Adobe officially Announced CS3 today, but I assume some of us have already had our peek at the new features they were rolling out in new versions of Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, etc. (Sorry Freehand and ImageReady Fans.)
If you managed to miss this somehow:
http://www.adobe.com/creativelicense/
Go ahead and Preorder today, but I don’t think they’ve […]
The Walker Art Center and AIGA is pairing up again to have their March graphic design lecture series. Insights usually host no surprises for me these days. You’ll have a mix of academia, hip, highly theoretical, and your dull lecturers. Normally I find my self saying, OK, ya, nice work. But it ends up feeling […]
If you’re in or travelling to Chicago anytime before January 1, 2007, then you should head on over to the Museum of Contemporary Art to see their feature exhibition Massive Change.
This exhibition focuses on the design and planning of culture and civilization. It is very powerful in its message and it raises many questions about […]
I was lucky enough to attend the Chuck Close discussion at the Walker last weekend. (July 24, 2005)
Chuck Close as an artist has quite a bit to give our community. He works from photographs he has taken of large heads of people that he knows.These photos include many of himself. In fact, that is […]
I have yet to take the time to survey all that is new at the walker; however, while attending the recent Insight Series I was pleased to find a more “open” approach to their lectures.
This may have existed before, but you can find lectures webcast at channel.walker.org.
The Museum of Russian Art had been a part of the Twin Cities for several years, but, until recently, has flown under the radar as it was located in an isolated industrial area of Bloomington.
The museum is a showcase of Ray Johnson’s collection of some 14,000 20th-century Russian realist painting. Johnson received a massive a […]
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