BLOG: Our Weekly Reading List
Each week we devote a portion of our free time to reading articles about technological, social, and design trends and events that impact the world we live in and what we do. We have a research assistant dedicated to finding quality articles and compiling the most relevant and important reads for the team each week. They are publicly posted for specific DarkSquare team members and for anyone interested in following the kind of content we consume week to week. Follow our blog for some of the best curated content on the web for designers and futurists.
Latest Entries
How Can Design Be More Strategic at My Company?
FULL ARTICLE: https://www.askthesherwins.com/advice SUMMERY: The Shewins reply to a letter asking for advice on improving poor performance reviews and understanding vague instruction from superiors, stating “be more strategic” about design. The Sherwins reply by...
Batman 1989: Why the iconic movie logo and design work by Anton Furst still resonate
Close your eyes and think of the Batman symbol for a second.
Designer vs Corporation
ARTICLE SUMMERY: Designers vs Corporation is an article about how to thrive in a corporate environment. Jose’ Torre’s recommendations are: 1. Learn about the business and how to make a real impact2. Under promise but over deliver, how to make working in...
The Importance of Advertising in the Digital Age
ARTICLE SUMMERY: In this article “The Importance of Advertising in the Digital Age”, author Lexie Lu discusses just how important going digital can be for your company. She backs her article up with several points: Traditional Advertising Mediums Are on Borrowed...
This is what 500 years of graphic design in print looks like
In1455, the budding Italian urbanist and author Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini was in Frankfurt viewing a first edition of the Gutenberg Bible.
PHOTOGRAPHY’S FUTURE IS COMPUTATIONAL
I thought back to when I was in the Navy and graduated from an instamatic camera to my Pentax Spotmatic 35mm SLR and how I was going to take the kind of photos that National Geographic would die for.
For a Brief Moment in Every NASA Mission, Astronauts Become Designers
But for one brief moment during the flight preparations that will take them far beyond the reaches of the earth’s atmosphere, NASA astronauts have to be brand designers, too.
Five Habits of Design Thinking
Design Thinking is the least defined and most problematic to explain.
What’s the Difference Between a Font and a Typeface? Take Our New + Improved Ultimate Typography Quiz
Do you grit your teeth if someone says “font” when they really mean “typeface?”
How Desktop Dashboards Really Work
Interface testing isn’t a new thing and constant exploration is targeted at improving user interaction.
Photography’s Future is Computational
Photo credit: Joe Fioramonti Sr I read with interest Robert Rittmuller’s article “Photography’s Future is Computational” and I’m not sure what to think. For a professional photographer he is right, it’s more than preserving memories, it’s creating something...
Remembering Nüshu, the 19th-Century Chinese Script Only Women Could Write
IN 1988, YI NIANHUA, A woman in her 80s, spent many evenings scribbling elegant characters at a table in her kitchen in a small rice-farming village in Shangjiangxu, China.
How Printmaking Became Popular After the Great Depression
Prior to the Depression, owning fine art was beyond the reach of most Americans.
How brands are taking social media into the real world to connect with us
Now, nearly 60 years later, you’re as likely to spot Fjällräven’s iconic fox logo on a backpack in Brooklyn as you are on a trail in the Arctic Circle.
How To Measure The ROI Of Brand Purpose
As more and more companies adopt a purpose-driven strategy, one of the key questions that needs to be addressed is how to measure the return on investment from a purpose-driven initiative.
Boost Your Business by Leveraging Marketing Analytics
Once upon a time, marketers would spend all of their time creating and sharing promotional campaigns only to wonder if they even worked.
3 Requirements For Building A Great Brand
Search Amazon for books on branding and you’ll get over 10,000 results.
Tokyo subway’s humble duct-tape typographer
Sato san’s works are an embodiment of the best qualities of design. They are honest, simple responses to a need and, at the same time, they are expressive and delightful.
THIS ROBOTIC CONTACT LENS CAN ZOOM IN OR OUT JUST BY BLINKING
A team of scientists from the University of California San Diego created a spy movie-esque contact lens that zooms in and out when you blink.
What Is a Blockchain?
A public¹, permanent², append-only³ distributed⁴ ledger⁵.
DARKSQUARE logo design published in Logo Lounge 11
