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Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Local college named Top Design School for 14th year
A local college has been named the Top Design School for the 14th consecutive year. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] The Modern College of Design, located in Kettering, has been named one of the top design schools in the nation by Graphic Design USA. TRENDING STORIES: Local man arrested on child molestation warrant after 'intensive investigation' Emmy-winning 'Desperate Housewives' actress dead at 71 Over 70 cats, 3 dogs rescued from 'biohazard' hoarding conditions in Ohio 'We're incredibly proud to be included again in GDUSA's list of top design schools,' Jessica Barry, President of The Modern College of Design, said. 'This honor reflects the creativity and commitment of our students, the passion of our faculty, and the hard work of our entire community. Together, we continue to push boundaries and evolve with the industry.' Other colleges on the top schools list include Yale University School of Art, Rhode Island School of Design and Pratt Institute. The Modern College of Design has added three distinct paths for their students, graphic design, user experience design and motion graphics and video design. The college will be holding an exhibition, called REVEAL, on June 5. REVEAL will showcase graduate work in branding, design, graphics, illustration and more. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Washington Post
21-05-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
Asking Eric: Parent's questions keep offending adult daughter
Dear Eric: I am 80 and my daughter is 44. I am a retired professional and my daughter, a college graduate and business owner, gets offended when I question anything she does. She's considering going back to school to enhance her marketability and when she showed me a counseling program she was interested in, I noticed one of the required courses was statistics. When I asked her if she realized that it is a high-level math course, she became insulted. Her major in college was graphic design, and she always avoided math classes once she left high school.
South China Morning Post
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend May 9-11, including selfie taking
Looking for fun things to do in Hong Kong this weekend? Our recommendations include a quirky poster design exhibition, retro selfies pop-up, and a baking event where you can eat and raise money for a good cause at the same time. 1. Postapalooza 'Postapalooza' is a month-long poster exhibition and festival showcasing 'the best, worst, most outrageous graphic design from Asia' at Heath, the venue in the basement of Chungking Mansions in Tsim Sha Tsui. Advertisement Pop in to get inspired by experimental techniques, innovative typography and the diverse perspectives of Asian graphic designers. Co-organised by independent art space Current Plans and cult magazine YeP YeP, this inaugural festival will celebrate 41 artists. Guests at the opening party can enjoy live sets from Yadin Moha, Jeanut and RTJ. 'Postapalooza' opening night, Friday, May 9, 6-10pm, The Garage @ Heath, B/F, 36-44 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. Exhibition continues until June 12. 2. Snap up some nostalgia at Kodak pop-up Photography brand Kodak blends classic and contemporary vibes at its 'Happy Snaps' pop-up, at Cityplaza in Tai Koo until May 18.
Fast Company
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Fast Company
Why every company is hitting ‘Ctrl+B' on its logo
' He just put it in bold! ' exclaimed Ryan Gosling's character in a Saturday Night Live video that attracted a cult following in the world of graphic design last year. The follow-up to a 2017 SNL bit in which Gosling played a man haunted by his realization that the logo for the 2009 blockbuster Avatar was expressed in the gauche Papyrus typeface, the newer video centered on his fresh horror of discovering that the same graphic designer responsible for the first logo had updated the wordmark for the movie's sequel by simply setting it in bold type. A year later, it seems that life is imitating satire, as, following last week's announcement of Amazon's brand refresh, 2025's three biggest rebrands to date—including those of Walmart in January and OpenAI in February—have, to the untrained eye, more or less involved hitting 'Ctrl+B' on the companies' wordmarks and logos to put them in bold. All three of these corporate behemoths' updated wordmarks are somewhat heavier than their predecessors, while not representing radical changes. Unlike Walmart's brutalist look of a generation ago, with its massive and intimidating all-caps, sharp-cornered letterforms projecting its retail dominance, these new marks are all clean, respectable sans-serifs with enough roundedness to signal a degree of friendliness and approachability. Perhaps this style might be dubbed Blanding Bold. Their associated symbolic elements have undergone a similar transformation. While OpenAI's 'blossom,' Walmart's 'spark,' and Amazon's 'smile' all look basically the same as they did before, much to the consternation of some social media users who feel personally affronted that these expensive rebrands did not result in more noticeable changes, the differences are there. The blossom's strokes have thickened and evened, improving its overall composition while still allowing it to evoke an unfolding flower, a foreboding whirlpool, or imagery of a more alimentary nature. The new spark met the approval of logo guru Armin Vit, who called it 'softer, warmer, and more friendly while being so much better executed,' and noted that 'the bolder weight of the segments gives the icon more presence and strength to stand on its own as it moves forward as the company's primary logo.' And the Amazon logo received an injection of lip filler, resulting in what the design agency Koto calls a ' deeper and more emphatic smile ' (to the extent that a smile can be 'emphatic'). While the rebrands of these three giants, with their estimated combined value of $3 trillion, have attracted the most attention, this bold new trend in corporate graphics has been spotted in many other quarters over the past year or so, including PayPal, ABC, Reddit, the CW network, Workday, the Guggenheim, Herman Miller, Eventbrite, Crumbl, New York City Football Club, New York Botanical Garden, and even Fluz. Patient zero in this outbreak might be the 2019 Slack redesign, in which the wordmark was Ctrl+B'd and the logo's hot dog shapes plumped just like Ball Park Franks. What accounts for all this boldness? Companies have long expressed the desire to get more bang for their branding buck; ' Make the logo bigger ' is a common refrain among design clients (and one that designers tend to dread hearing). It would seem that making the logo bolder is the next best thing, allowing for more logo per square inch, a denser deployment of general logo essence, and a symbol that, like Amazon's, is more emphatic overall. For what brand would not want its logo to be emphasized? And if a company's goal is to use its logo to communicate boldness as a brand attribute, the single most obvious, literal, no-brainer way to do so is to just put it in bold.
