Gargoyle Communications

07/10/2020

Dorothy Jackson’s 1968 article for Print was perhaps the first piece in the mainstream press to describe the experience of Black designers in their own words. We asked today’s design leaders to tell us what’s changed in 50 years and imagine what’s next.

06/30/2020

A giant in the business.

In his graphic designs, he mingled Dürer with de Chirico, Breuer with Klimt, Islamic ornament with African textiles.

04/02/2020

“She Designs Books” Exhibition at TDC

Installation view of “She Designs Books Celebrates 2 Years!” Type Directors Club New York, New York February 5, 2020 – March 31, 2020 Photos by Susan Bednarczyk

02/10/2020

h/t Peter Kraftwerk-Nomi Hudston

The Columbian printing press was built in 1821 — the same year McGill University was founded.

01/25/2020

A regular mixer brings together designers and typography nerds who get consumed by spacing and serifs.

08/01/2019

Rare and striking images trace the history of advertising design across more than a century

06/26/2019

"My mind seems to have become more exploratory" with age, he says.

06/17/2019

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-art-director-embraced-hip-and-vivacious-canadian-design/

Early in her career she lost a good job when a man was hired to replace her, but she went on to find success creating magazine covers that captured the spirit of the 1960s, and later defining a new role at The Globe and Mail

01/10/2019

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/the-2019-social-media-image-optimization-guide-infographic/545049/

Make sure your social media visuals look their best with this updated guide to optimal social platform image dimensions. 

10/27/2018

Google has added a new option which enables users to follow businesses on Google Maps and get updates for coming events.

04/09/2018

Apparently the carpet from The Shining is now a background for product photos. Creepy.

04/04/2018

How the new graphic iconography of memes, placards and posters is changing the way we communicate and protest