Financial Services Annual Report

by Michael Aron on May 10, 2012

Recently completed: An interactive annual report website for the world’s largest asset manager.

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Features: JQuery stock ticker, slideshow and asymmetrical background images

Firm: Decker Design

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Convergence of Data, Video and Voice

by Michael Aron on May 2, 2012

These advertising supplements targeted three segments of the telecom industry. A. Consumers—Access to communications everywhere, every time. B. Operators—Global standards and compliance among industry players. C. Networks—Convergence of data, video and voice. Chalk illustrations by Michael Aron. client: Business Week

 

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Herb Lubalin Drove a Racing Green Volvo P1800 ES

by Michael Aron on March 22, 2012

Herb Lubalin was my teacher, mentor, and boss. He was virtually mute, ambidextrous, and amazingly talented.

Early Herb Lubalin Design Studio Sign

Early Herb Lubalin Design Studio Sign

I rescued this brass sign from the trash when I worked there back in the 1980s. Read his brief biography here. My favorite memory is driving around with him in his fantastic Volvo P1800 ES, a tour de force of automotive design. Herb definitely had style. This sign definitely is the work of Tom Carnase, and you can see a resemblance to the New York Magazine logo he modified years later.

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Signage Sightings in Nolita

March 18, 2012 Commentary

Spring arrived in New York and a lazy walk down to Chinatown and Little Italy yielded a trove of type treasures. I’m glad that the Moe’s Meat Market sign is still hanging, even though you can only buy rather uninspired art within.

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How to get a job in graphic design

March 12, 2012 Commentary

  I recently made a presentation to students at City College at the invitation of another Cooper Union alum Ina Saltz and her colleague Donald Partyka. Rather than show a portfolio I showed my job history as it related to my teachers and classmates. I’m posting this to my blog because it has had over [...]

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Bleu O Noir by Jacques Villeglé

March 5, 2012 Favorites

A recent visit to the Museum of Modern Art yielded this wonderful piece I’d never seen before. “Bleu O Noir” by Jacques Villeglé, Done in 1955. Paper on canvas. He calls this art methodology “Ultra-Lettrist psychogeographical hypergraphics.” That’s awesome.

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Rand’s El Producto Cigar Album

March 1, 2012 Favorites

This modernist package is one my favorite possessions. I purchased it for a few bucks at a flea market in Philadelphia. It was designed by the legendary Paul Rand and features a photogram on the cover—hence the title “Cigar Album.”

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Law Firm Website Goes Live

February 24, 2012 New Work

As part of a larger rebranding program, we produced a new website for Davidson Dawson & Clark LLP, the metropolitan area’s largest trusts & estates boutique.

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iBook Author

January 20, 2012 Commentary

Apple had done it again. They created software for the creation of iBooks that’s easy to use and produces excellent results. We tried it out the day it was released and found it to be an excellent alternative to the more complex Adobe products. It’s designed for the textbook market, but obviously it can generate [...]

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Website in a Weekend

October 26, 2011 New Work

Web design and development is a massively time consuming and complex process. From initial concept, to wireframes, to functional spec, to layered psd files, to database programming and population, testing, and launch. Then again, some clients just do not have the time. We did the whole project, including language translator in one weekend. Here’s how…

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