Diccicco Battista Communications – Where Brands Go To Work

I have been given the amazing opportunity to continue my summer-long internship with Diccicco Battista Communications through my fall semester. Diccicco Battista Communications – “DBC” for short – is a full service advertising agency located in Conshohocken, PA, where they provide design, web programming, media and PR services to a…

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about: JESSICA HISCHE designer, letterer, and illustrator

I recently discovered this amazing designer, Jessica Hische. She is amazing at lettering (drawing her own type), design, and illustration. She is only 5 years out of college and has an absolutely amazing and very impressive portfolio. Her work has been featured in many publications like Entertainment weekly, New York Magazine, People…

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Red Attic Design Studio

I am super excited about these people. A full-service design studio based right outside Philadelphia, Red Attic is the studio that Joe Castro Brevoort created in 2006. In 2007 he quit his day job as the Art Director for the Please Touch Museum to do Red Attic full time and 3 years later he’s…

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Eye-catching vs. Eyesore

Sometimes less is more, especially in posters. They have to be interesting, quickly catch the eye of anyone walking past them intent on beating the rush to Starbucks or whatever, but at the same time the person glancing at them has be able to quickly read whatever information is there.…

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Gina Kelly’s New Poster

  I love Gina Kelly. All of her art is amazing, but her posters are what drew me in at first glance, (at a tiny thumbnail on gigposters.com, no less). Her prints are imaginative and colorful, filled with impossible animals and scenes that look like they came out of a similar…

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Monday, Sept 26, 1pm, Tyler Auditorium: Valerie Spada, author of Gomorrah Girls

  We have a wonderful opportunity to hear the Italian award winning photographer, Valerio Spada, on September 26 at 1 pm. in the Tyler auditorium. Blurb, the self-publishing giant, and sponsor of the Photography Book Now, announced the competition’s $25,000 Grand Prize winner—Italian photographer Valerio Spada for Gomorrah Girl. The book explores the…

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Aspiring Art Director? AIGA Memberships Only $50! (through september 30th, so get them now!)

AIGA is the largest professional association of design in the world. They are currently haveing a sale on their student memberships through September 30, 2011! The membership will only cost you $50 (instead of $95) and by joining AIGA you will receive substantial benefits and gain access to invaluable resources and…

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Interview with David D’Andrea

Juxtapoz sat down with poster artists David D’Andrea a couple of years ago for their (then upcoming) Fog Rising event in San Francisco. For such a short interview, it really has a lot of insight about D’Andrea’s design process and the relation of visual art to aural art. I recognize D’Andrea’s poster for…

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Post(er)-Impressionist Art

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec was a French artist in Europe during the late 1900’s Post Impressionist period. He, along with other painters like Cézanne and Van Gogh, are known as some of the greatest fine artists of that time period–Lautrec can still be most easily reccognized by the posters he…

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