Regular readers of Graphic Diction may have noticed that for a week, the publication has been shut down with a reboot holder live. I’m excited to announce that Graphic Diction has participated in the May 1st Reboot movement and we’ll discuss what inspired the new layout.

As quoted from their authors, “May 1st Reboot offers a chance for convergence within, what continues to be, an increasingly fragmented and segregated medium. The event is a public showcase of collectivity and individuality, of cohesion without uniformity, part of an increasingly pressing drive to demonstrate the significant and potential of digital authorship in a medium becoming more and more saturated by bland conformist methodologies and insipid commercialised aesthetics.” For me, they represent the freedom allowed in design over the Internet and the movements to revolutionize within the medium.

“The Education of an Art Director”, by Steven Heller and Veronique Vienne, is an interesting book discussing how art directors should be trained, how they are most often introduced to the job, how they cope, and much more. The 200 pages full of content is composed of discussions between professionals, designers, art directors, editors, photographers, […]