University of Baltimore Integrated Design MA & MFA

Graduating Pantone class if 2018

Typographer, graphic designer and businessman Erik Spiekermann has created timeless, influential and, yes, Meta-physical work over the past three decades.

Next to founding MetaDesign and FontShop, the latter being the first ever digital distributor of fonts, and designing more instant classic typefaces than any other, he has been recognized as an outstanding expert internationally as a lecturer and professor.

Listen to the design genius talk about new visual languages, design processes, the analogies of music and typography, and why we need better client culture.

https://vimeo.com/19429698

Erik Spiekermann - Putting Back the Face into Typeface Typographer, graphic designer and businessman Erik Spiekermann has created timeless, influential and, yes, Meta-physical work over the past three decades. Next…

"I’m the Amish guy. I like making my own stuff.”

http://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/creative-class/donald-robertson-wacky-creative-warrior?utm_source=Subscribers&utm_campaign=933be75720-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d2191372b3-933be75720-417503081?utm_source=Subscribers&utm_campaign=933be75720-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d2191372b3-933be75720-417503081

Donald Robertson, Creative 'Wacky Warrior' The illustrator, roving creative director and prolific Instagrammer says real success arrived when he stopped listening to focus groups.

Intrigued by the assertion that ‘print is dead’, SHOWstudio puts the spotlight on a range of style mags from the past that continue to inspire today’s image-makers and writers. SHOWstudio editor Lou Stoppard collected together the founders of these titles, alongside avid magazine collectors and archivists, to question how a title's impact can be measured by far more than its prints run.

http://showstudio.com/project/print

Print Intrigued by the assertion that ‘print is dead’, SHOWstudio puts the spotlight on a range of style mags from the past that continue to inspire today’s image-makers and writers. SHOWstudio editor Lou Stoppard collected together the founders of these titles, alongside avid magazine collectors and arch…

"Today, MTV launched a new on-air identity with a similar 'new ugly' aesthetic, which it hopes will reflect the increasingly visual way its audience communicates. Graphics are a chaotic mix of clashing colours, unicorns, anthropomorphic fruit and badly animated humans, and perfectly capture MTV's playful tone of voice, as well as the DIY aesthetic of the internet."

http://creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2015/june/mtv?cmpid=crnews_1301694

"I think the time when we were either for or against digital tools is becoming irrelevant," Verbruggen says in the movie. "You cannot remove digital anymore from our daily life. So I think we should stop thinking as either one or zero, and start thinking of where we can embed [digital technology] everywhere in our practice as makers."

http://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/13/movie-dries-verbruggen-unfold-analogue-digital-tools/

Movie: Dries Verbruggen on Unfold's digital measuring tools Digital technology is infiltrating all aspects of design and making, according to Dries Verbruggen of Belgian design studio Unfold

"Why do so many graduates end up in pointless and destructive jobs? To take such jobs at graduation, as many will in the next few weeks, is to amputate life close to its base."

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/city-corporates-destroy-best-minds?CMP=share_btn_fb

How a corporate cult captures and destroys our best graduates | George Monbiot Universities should defend students against lovebombing by banks and consultancy firms – before it ruins their lives

Are some fonts more believable than others? A curious experiment by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris suggests as much.


http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670556/are-some-fonts-more-believable-than-others

Are Some Fonts More Believable Than Others? Recently, Errol Morris pulled a covert experiment on readers of The New York Times. The result? Typefaces can sway your beliefs.

PBDS 740 Seminar in Publications Design
Finalist Presentations last Thursday were incredible.
We are so proud of our graduating class of 2015!

PBDS 740 Seminar in Publications Design
Finalist Presentations

Join us on Thursday, May 14th, to watch this years PBDS Seminar finalists present their projects. At stake: the Kvedar Seminar Award and PBDS bragging rights!

This year’s panel of judges from the professional community
consists of:
John Pfeifer, Principal designer at 13 Boards, design and strategy firm. 13boards.com
Mary Quick, Design director at gkv Communications, a full service communications firm. gkv.com
Tom Waldron, Senior Vice President at The Hatcher Group, a public affairs and communications firm that connects nonprofits and foundations to policymakers and the media. thehatchergroup.com
Please join us Thursday May 14th, from 6:00-7:30 P.M. in the UB Learning Commons Town Hall.

About PBDS 740 Seminar in Publications Design: This course tests and stretches all knowledge and skills students have been learning up to this point. Students conceive a solution to a particular communications problem, work in teams to analyze its audience(s), develop a plan for making it public via print and/or other media, and design and write a prototype.

UB Publications Design M.A. 2015 Portfolio Show

Join us on Monday, May 18, 2015, for a showcase and reception in the Hilda and Michael Bogomolny Room of the Student Center from 4:30-6 p.m.

Publications Design graduates will display their portfolios and Seminar projects. The event will include awards for exceptionally creative work in Portfolio, excellence in Seminar, and the Ampersand Award, honoring the student who exhibited extraordinary creativity, energy, and personal achievement in the integration of words and images.