Faced with the frantic bustle of our daily work and ever-present deadlines, how do we battle our creative ennui in order to reinvigorate our work?

Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style is a design classic that deserves a coveted place on every graphic designer’s bookshelf.

From our first school day as enthusiastic design students our educators endeavour to instil within us good habits that will hopefully remain throughout our future careers. As years pass and the challenges of real work situations come to the fore, either by accident or design some of this helpful guidance falls by the wayside. Maybe it’s time to get back to basics.

As people working in a creative field, we are constantly bombarded by transient trends – should we try to ignore them or get on board?

This publishing season brings the first monograph documenting the life and works of gifted American design renaissance man, Alvin Lustig

How can we harness the vast knowledge of the internet without becoming overwhelmed by the deluge of data available?

Are financial pressures and other circumstances draining the skill level in New Zealand graphic design?

We’ve all been there — slumped in front of a computer pushing the same six elements around for three hours and still nothing is working, it’s a pile of… blah. It’s minutes ’til deadline, your heart is pounding, you’re hunched over the keyboard like a panicked ghoul, ‘Am I broken?’ you ask yourself. ‘Why can’t I make this work?’

With the recent release of The Visual Miscellaneum, David McCandless’ graphic review of current events, we have another excuse to explore our ongoing romance with those wonderful enhancements to the printed (or digital) page, infographics.