Category Archives: 30 Conversations on Design

Jessica Helfand: Jessica provided a great commentary on what inspires her the most with respect to design.  Her answer was that everything is always changing in design so nothing that is here today has the assurance to be prominent in … Continue reading →

I found Augustin Garza to be especially interesting and his focus on life, renewal and death. How do we add an element of design to this? I did a bit more research on Garza and his website has the following … Continue reading →

Print, web and interactive…these are the three categories that come to mind when I think about design, maybe because I’ve been studying these are in graduate school.  However, since watching the short interviews in Thirty Conversations on Design, I’ve started … Continue reading →

I think conversations such as these are vital to the success of everyone. These conversations should also occur in every industry, not just design. It is clear that in the world we live in there are continuing problems and massive … Continue reading →

I thought I would watch another of those hour-long profiles so as not to do a duplicate blog, but as these aren’t being graded on quality, and as we’re all pretty busy with other stuff that doesn’t include sitting and … Continue reading →

JESSICA HELFAND // Graphic Designer, Educator, Writer, Theorist, 2010 Series HIGHER LEARNING Graphic Designer Jessica Helfand states that she learns from her students because their perspectives continue to change. Helfand goes on to make the point that in the future, … Continue reading →

The three of 30 Conversations on Design I watched definitely presented 3 drastically different views, opinions, and 3 different production qualities. I watched the videos featuring Ami Kealoha, Jessica Hische, and Pete Doctor. Pete Doctor, in “Storytime,” was my favorite … Continue reading →

Watching the Troika Design series on Lynda.com opened my eyes to the idea of a “brand.” Branding is a word that is thrown around often in the world of communications. However, Troika Designs showed me that branding is everything and … Continue reading →

This is yet another example in life that illustrates how literal of a person I am. I was expecting the designers to name specific piece of work, be it an ad, a piece of artwork, etc as a piece of … Continue reading →

These brief clips were really interesting. The first clip that I watched was of Tony Hawk. Obviously being familiar with Tony Hawk, I was interested in why he was considered a designer. I know that the has a clothing brand … Continue reading →