Mike Wiggins http://www.wigginsdesign.dreamhosters.com/acu Wed, 01 May 2013 20:00:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 Happy Birthday TypeFight! http://www.wigginsdesign.dreamhosters.com/acu/2012/08/happy-birthday-typefight/ http://www.wigginsdesign.dreamhosters.com/acu/2012/08/happy-birthday-typefight/#comments Sat, 01 Sep 2012 02:35:44 +0000 Mike Wiggins http://www.wigginsdesign.dreamhosters.com/acu/?p=2929
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If you haven’t seen Kelli Anderson’s amazing design work you must run to her blog right now.

More on her paper invite here.
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]]> http://www.wigginsdesign.dreamhosters.com/acu/2010/09/behind-the-scenes-on-a-logotype-design/feed/ 0 La Cage Branding in the New York Times http://www.wigginsdesign.dreamhosters.com/acu/2010/04/la-cage-branding-in-the-new-york-times/ http://www.wigginsdesign.dreamhosters.com/acu/2010/04/la-cage-branding-in-the-new-york-times/#comments Sat, 03 Apr 2010 02:20:08 +0000 Mike Wiggins http://www.wigginsdesign.dreamhosters.com/acu/2010/04/la-cage-branding-in-the-new-york-times/ Jeff Rogers, an alumnus working at Spot Co in New York, passed on this New York Times article. The owner of Spot Co talks thought all of the rejected comps for the new Broadway show La Cage aux Folles. It’s a great peek into the design process. This is for all those students who complain about multiple rough comps.

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Nicholas Felton is a graphic designer that specializes in information design. He produces these great personal annual reports that visualize ‘daily data’. I would recommend checking it out and maybe producing one of your own. I would love to see it.


http://feltron.com/


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