Sagmeister & Walsh: Halftone Satisfaction for Moo

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Sagmeister & Walsh are the lat­est in the line of excel­lent design­ers to col­lab­o­rate with Moo on a line of cards for their Luxe col­lec­tion. In typ­i­cal Sagmeister & Walsh fash­ion, they took an edgy approach to their design, cre­at­ing a series of busi­ness card-sized mes­sages that are intended “to be handed to any­one you meet who delights or annoys you.” (Fair warn­ing: there is a bit of curs­ing below. So if that offends you, you may want to avoid scrolling down.)

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Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh like to tell it like it is, and they wanted to pro­vide oth­ers with an easy way to speak their mind, so they cre­ated “Halftone Satisfaction” a col­lec­tion of seven sets of seven cards. Individual cards are to be handed out to any­one you meet who either delights or annoys you. The lighter the card, the nicer the mes­sage: The fronts of the cards are solid black with a mes­sage to share, and the backs of the cards have a black dot pat­tern that builds from mostly white for the brighter sen­ti­ments, to a solid black for the dark­est of mes­sages. Sagmeister says of the col­lec­tion, “It’s a test of what kind of per­son you are…” 

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I don’t know if I’d actu­ally have the guts to hand out the more angry ones, but they sure would come handy on the sub­way. All pro­ceeds from the sales go to New York’s Coalition for the Homeless. You can browse the col­lec­tion and pick up a set for your­self right here start­ing tomorrow.

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March 11, 2013 – 8:30 am | By Courtney | Posted in Design | Tagged | Comments (4)

CourseHorse NYC: Classes to Take This Week

We’ve teamed up with CourseHorse to bring you a selec­tion of NYC classes that will be of par­tic­u­lar inter­est to you. Here’s what we rec­om­mend check­ing out in the next five days. As a spe­cial treat, DWL read­ers can get $5 off any class with the promo code: design­work­life.

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Here’s what’s hap­pen­ing this week:

Mobile App Development Bootcamp

Wednesday, March 13th, 6:00PM – 9:00PM / $75
This work­shop will teach you about the process of cre­at­ing an app from start to fin­ish — from learn­ing about the app­verse itself to devel­op­ment, design, eco­nom­ics, man­age­ment, and mar­ket­ing. With your new­found knowl­edge, you’ll be on the fast track to cre­at­ing your app and get­ting it live and online quickly, effi­ciently, and in a man­ner that will max­i­mize its poten­tial for suc­cess.
Sign up here.

Intro to eCom­merce: Strategies for Digital 

Tuesday, March 12th, 6:00PM – 7:30PM / $30
Intro to eCom­merce is a high level class designed to pro­vide early stage and aspir­ing dig­i­tal mer­chants a holis­tic view of the eCom­merce ecosys­tem. Additionally, the class will give stu­dents a detailed overview of the fun­da­men­tal processes & con­sid­er­a­tions essen­tial to suc­cess­fully launch­ing an online store.
Sign up here.

Social Media & Online Marketing Manager

Wednesday, March 13th, 7:00PM – 9:00PM / $250
This class will help you to fig­ure out how the power of tech­nol­ogy and the tran­si­tion between Mainstream Media and New Media has been affect­ing your busi­ness. Attendees will also learn how you can adver­tise your busi­ness, spend­ing less money for a big­ger tar­get audi­ence. You will develop the Social Media Strategy appro­pri­ated for your per­son­al­ity and busi­ness, besides teach­ing you how to use sev­eral Social Media tools to do Market Research to bet­ter under­stand your audi­ence.
Sign up here.

Creating Ebooks with Adobe InDesign

Monday, March 11th, 6:00PM – 9:00PM / $545
Students will cre­ate an EPUB file that can be dis­played on all eRead­ers (iPad, Nook, Sony Reader, etc.) as well as a Mobi file for Amazon’s Kindle.
Sign up here.

Google Analytics Seminars for Success

Tuesday, March 12th, 8:30AM – 5:00PM / $948 (other dates avail­able)
At our Seminar for Success we’ll dig in and explore ways to use your Google Analytics to gather more mean­ing­ful data, ana­lyze it bet­ter, and make your web­site per­form.
Sign up here.

Nuts & Bolts

Friday, March 15th, 6:00PM – 8:00PM / $100
This safari is for those who com­pre­hend the “scene” set­tings and other ele­men­tary con­trols of their cam­eras but would like a bet­ter under­stand­ing of white bal­ance, File Formats (RAW, JPG etc.), color space, depth of field, flash, etc.
Sign up here.

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Want to plan far­ther ahead? CourseHorse offers a ton of other NYC classes, both this week and down the road. The design, pro­gram­ming, pho­tog­ra­phy and busi­ness classes may be up your alley.

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March 11, 2013 – 8:00 am | By Courtney | Posted in Learning | Tagged | Comments (0)

Eight Hour Day: Olive Juice Studios Identity & Website

Here is yet another incred­i­ble iden­tity and web design project by Eight Hour Day. This time they’ve lent their skills to a project for Olive Juice Studios, a wed­ding and por­trait pho­tog­ra­phy busi­ness. I can’t get enough of the gor­geous gold edg­ing on the sta­tionery pieces!

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March 8, 2013 – 4:41 pm | By Courtney | Posted in Design | Tagged , , | Comments (2)