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One Day for Design

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AIGA is hosting a one-day, online event about the future of design and welcomes all designers and design enthusiasts to participate:

On April 13, 2011, add your voice to an open, digital dialogue on design. One Day For Design brings together a global community of designers and design enthusiasts to exchange ideas, challenge viewpoints and push boundaries—collaborating in real time on the future of our profession and the organizations behind it. Spread the word. Join the conversation at onedayfordesign.org or via Twitter.

What: One Day for Design is a 24-hour live online conversation about the future of the design industry. Moderators will host exchanges on Twitter throughout the day, which will all be aggregated at onedayfordesign.org where viewers can also post comments.

When: April 13, 2011, beginning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern and ending at midnight

Where: Worldwide, converging at onedayfordesign.org and on Twitter at #1D4D

Why: One Day for Design will encourage design enthusiasts everywhere to think about the role design organizations can play for designers in a rapidly-shifting world.

Moderators include: Alex Bogusky, Doug Bowman, Liz Danzico, Debbie Millman, Erik Spiekermann, Armin Vit, Alissa Walker and Katherine Walker.

 

Rose Crescent Identity and Letterpress Business Cards

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The mission of Rose Crescent is to provide superior software systems which are robust and reliable. The Rose Crescent logo is clean and simple referencing the origin of the name and conveys the utility and reliability of the brand. The crescent petals scattered in an irregular way on the business card give a sense of the logo being a solution to a scattered problem.

Featured: PaperSpecs Gallery // The Beauty of Letterpress // Design Your Way // Card Dsgn // Card Observer

April Showers Bring… [Friday Flickr Favorites]

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It is more like snow than showers here in Boston, but I’m looking forward to the Spring weather if it ever makes it up here. I am sharing some lovely rain inspired photos today. On the sunny side, check out the Amelie G Magazine April Web Issue which came out today for some amazing Spring fashion and photos!

Rain dance

Cuba Gallery: Urban

Visit my April Showers Bring May Flowers and April Showers Bring May Flower – NOLA Flickr galleries for more! Happy Friday!

The photos link through to the photographer’s Flickr page.

 

Walden Pond and Longfellow’s Wayside Inn

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We started the day with a short drive to Walden Pond in Concord which is a 102-foot deep glacial kettle-hole pond where Henry David Thoreau lived in the 1840’s. We wanted to hike the trail that rings the pond, but it was still covered in snow so we headed to the Concord town center and then towards Sudbury for lunch.

We pulled up to Longfellow’s Wayside Inn just in time to see five minutemen firing their muskets. We ate lunch in The Old Kitchen which was Henry Ford’s favorite room for entertaining guest while he owned the Inn. It was dark and cozy with the glow of a large fireplace. It is the oldest operating Inn in the country, offering comfort and hospitality to travelers along the Boston Post Road since 1716.

After lunch we made our way to the very cute town of Lexington to walk down the main road and check out the battle green before our ride home to Boston.

It was a great day! I plan to go back to Walden Pond once all of the snow melts.

More adventures coming soon! Subscribe to the Ciera Design RSS feed or follow me on twitter so you don’t miss out!

Photos from my Golden Half

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I posted two images last week and wanted to share some of my other favorite prints from my Golden Half camera! As you can tell, some are from New Orleans and some from Boston. I’m not sure why a few of them are split in threes, but I think those are my favorite! Which is your favorite?

Fly Away [Friday Flickr Favorites]

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Today’s Flickr Friday features some beautiful airplane photographs. Somehow taking a photo from a plane never gets old for me. Enjoy and happy Friday!

The photos link through to the photographer’s Flickr page – so click through to see more of their work.

Fulling Mill Brook Preserve

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A few weeks ago, Z and I took a little weekend road trip to Martha’s Vineyard to visit with some friends. It was still too chilly to head to the beach, so we decided to visit the Fulling Mill Brook Preserve. We took a short hike down the path and stopped at a few streams and waterfalls along the way to snap some shots. The first two photos I took with my Golden Half camera. The others are from Eric Soikkeli, who came on the hike with us!

 

Beachcombing [Friday Flickr Favorites]

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I discovered Jennifer Steen Booher’s amazing photographs through her shop on Etsy and became obsessed. She is an artist and landscape architect living in Maine. Jennifer describes herself as part magpie, part squirrel, part scientist, and part historian. I can’t get enough of her Beachcombing series.

I think I am drawn to her work because my dad also collects… a little bit of everything… he is the dumpster diver of our family.

If you would like to hear more, please visit Jennifer’s blog and her Flickr for tales of marine biology, photography, life on a Maine island and more wonderful collection photographs!

Virginia Woolf Book Covers

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This series, by McKenna Kemp, focuses on Woolf’s novels that were written with a “stream of consciousness” narrative. The designs also nod to the original Vanessa Bell covers through their simplicity. The simple elements, beautiful typography and an elegant color palette make these designs exceptional!

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