Just a quick note to highlight a recent addition to my growing web design tab: Child S.H.A.R.E’s homepage. Working with Portnoy Media Group, I developed a fine tuned front-end homepage for this amazing non-profit based out of Glendale, CA. I am really feeling more and more comfortable branching into front end projects and thinking through intuitive user interfaces. The file prep and details are quite different from print design, but good clean type and use of a grid never seem to go out of date. I have a few more web projects in various stages, and am excited to get them up when they go live!

The Magazine Publishers of America put out this video and campaign “The Twenty Tweetable Truths About Magazines” at last week’s  Magazine Innovation Summit, encouraging the print based industry with recent good news. Check it out:

I found this on Font Feed where Yves Peters was also encouraged, but pointed out (via Amanda Ernst on FishbowlNY) the reality of the times and that some magazines still aren’t making it. True, but I can’t help but see the glass as half full and celebrate the value of print design remaining intact.

The AIGA Voice blog gives an update from the recent Make/Think Conference in Memphis with sketches from designer Carolyn Sewell’s notebook. Love it. Here are a few of her pages, and the full entry on the blog.

With heros like Steven Sagmister and Jim Sherraden from Hatch Show Print that were at this conference, I kick myself for not being there. I would have been in heaven. I’ve been to a few AIGA events when I was in California, which were mostly very inspirational and worth the effort. This year I went to another CIVA conference where, again, I felt design was the poor step-sibling to fine art that filled the context, schedule, and discussions. Great for them, but I think it might be time for me return to the AIGA mothership of graphic design to find more practical and relevant fodder. Just seeing notes like these is quite a dose of inspiration, no?