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Season 7 of Mad Men kicks off for the final time this Sunday. So sad to see it go, but excited to see how it ends. We made one final wallpaper to mark the occasion. Goodbye Don, Peggy, Roger, Pete, Joan and the rest—we’ll miss you. If you want one for your phone you can download it here:Drinks iPhone 4 WallpaperDrinks iPhone 5 Wallpaper I love all the classes coming out on Skillshare! The inspiring & talented women behind Got a Girl Crush Magazine are amping up for their third issue and could use a little help. Some SF friends of ours are putting on a killer looking conference this April in San Francisco and in Chicago this October. we wanted to help spread the word—so here it is… “Hike is a 1-day educational design conference for new designers looking for insight, honest answers, and solid solutions to help you go pro.” Fellow designers Stephanie Di Biase & Nate Burgos collaborated on an exciting new book: Broken: Navigating the Ups and Downs of the Circus Called Work.

45 Awesome Abstract Textures Finding that perfect texture for your design can be quite the search, and also quite time consuming. To help you out a bit we’ve browsed through the large collection of textures over at deviantART and picked out some abstract textures. These can inspire you in making your own ones or you can use them. Just make sure to click on the images to go to the originals and read if the artists behind them have any restrictions or require credits first. Maybe this can be the helpful start to a new project? Let’s dive in! Quipsologies • Quipsologies, is a division of UnderConsideration, chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis. • Quipsologies uses TypeKit to render P22 Underground, Skolar Web by TypeTogether, and Coquette by Mark Simonson. • Quipsologies is run with Six Apart’s MovableType 6.3.2 • Syndicate / RSS Feed • All comments, ideas and thoughts on Quipsologies are property of their authors; reproduction without the author’s or Quipsologies’s permission is strictly prohibited • Contact us by e-mail • Search through our archives (starting with Vol. 45 September 2010) UnderConsideration is a graphic design enterprise that runs a network of blogs, publishes books, organizes live events, and designs for clients. online Brand New / Displaying opinions, and focusing solely, on corporate and brand identity work. FPO (For Print Only) / Celebrating the reality that print is not dead by showcasing the most compelling printed projects.

brown dress with white dots “ There is a life review, of course, but it was so much more interesting than I had ever imagined. For one thing, they show you how and where your life really happened. Things you didn’t experience or weren’t ever aware of, but which dyed the fabric of your life its final color.— Jonathan Carroll / Child Across the Sky “ How volatile and untrustworthy memory is. How naive we are to depend on such a fragile, temperamental mechanism to keep our most important records straight.— Jonathan Carroll / Bathing the Lion “ We want to be loved for what we are, but also for what we want others to _think_ we are.— Jonathan Carroll / Bones of The Moon

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Opinions on Corporate and Brand Identity Work UnderConsideration is a graphic design firm generating its own projects, initiatives, and content while taking on limited client work. Run by Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit in Austin, TX. More… products we sell Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work. Brand New Conference videos / Individual, downloadable videos of every presentation since 2010. Prints / A variety of posters, the majority from our AIforGA series. Other: Various one-off products. writing Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic DesignRockport: 2009 Women of Design: Influence and Inspiration from the Original Trailblazers to the New Groundbreakers HOW Books: 2008 The Word It Book: Speak Up Presents a Gallery of Interpreted WordsHOW Books: 2007

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