Graphic Design Feature Articles

SEGD Love Stories - Maria Woyden 08/03/2022 Read Time: 5 minutes SEGD is a global, multidisciplinary community of professionals who plan, design, and build experiences that connect people to place. Our community includes over 2,000 members from 35 countries, and every person has an SEGD love story. Whether it’s participating in an event that advanced your design perspective, meeting someone who would become a lifelong creative collaborator, or discovering a new project that you were drawn to, SEGD has fostered countless connections over the years.	Digital Font Pairing 11/20/2019 Read Time: 3 minutes By Allan Haley,author, lecturer and expert on all things typographic Most projects call for more than one typeface. Where do you start?	Design Manual for the Swiss Federal Railways 10/09/2019 Read Time: 12 minutes
Type on the Vertical 05/14/2019 Read Time: 3 minutes Just about every designer has an opinion about typeset on the vertical. The thing is: you’d be hard pressed to find a statistical or empirical study that establishes the best way Latin type should be set when it’s flipped on its end.	20 Questions with Lance Wyman, "Navigating Life" 03/08/2019 Read Time: 14 minutes SEGD asks 20 questions of Lance Wyman, FSEGD, an experiential graphic design legend—a literal icon of icons—who is currently working on a massive transit system for Mexico City, where he did some of his most beloved work in the late 1960s.	The Vignelli Canon 03/05/2019 Read Time: 6.5 minutes
The Best Content of 2018 12/04/2018 Read Time: 2.5 minutes Well that went by fast! And, it's has once again been a record-breaking year for SEGD, as the association has grown to over 2,300 members and SEGD.org page views have swelled to over three million.	20 Questions with Derek Friday, "Peak Commitment" 11/27/2018 Read Time: 11.5 minutes	Proportion—The Language of Graphic Design (Second Edition) 10/15/2018 Read Time: 11 minutes
Untangling Font Licensing 06/28/2018 By Allan Haley, author, lecturer and expert on all things typographic	The Field Guide to Supergraphics—Big Graphics in the Urban Landscape 02/28/2018 Earlier this month, a new experiential graphic design volume was released by Thames & Hudson entitled "The Field Guide to Supergraphics: Big Graphics in the Urban Landscape." Written by acclaimed author and designer Sean Adams, the tome explores daring, bright and meaningful large-scale experiential graphics installations around the world.	Writers Theatre Rewrites the Theater Experience 04/20/2016 Since it started in the back room of a bookstore in 1992, the hallmark of Chicago’s Writers Theatre has always been intimacy. That feeling is retained in WT's new permanent home in Glencoe, Illinois. The 36,000-sq.-ft. facility, designed by Studio Gang Architects, offers an open, welcoming space that galvanizes the potential of theater to unite people through shared experience. Signage and graphics by Thirst support the architecture and celebrate Writers’ unique history and spirit.
User Research, Interaction, and Experience Design in 2015 SEGD Academic Journal 11/09/2015 The 2015 issue of SEGD’s academic research journal Communication + Placecovers research on user engagement through signage design, an interdisciplinary approach to packaging design, the interplay between people and public art, and how EGD/XGD can activate small-town business districts.Communication + Place 2015 is available onlineand the 2016 Call for Papers has been issued.	Michael Bierut, Master Series Exhibit at SVA Gallery 11/04/2015 HOW TO fit 35 years worth of award-winning, laugh-making, product-selling, world-changing graphic design into 4,000 square feet? That was the latest design challenge for Pentagram partner Michael Bierut, whose work is the focus of a retrospective at the School of Visual Arts (New York) through November 7.	A Clear View with Don Meeker, 2015 SEGD Fellow 08/18/2015 By anyone’s standards, the work of Don Meeker—activist and information designer—has touched the lives of more people than any other in his era.

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