Meet 2016 AIGA Medalist Maira Kalman; Seeking Inspiration Within Brands; Character Animation

Meet 2016 AIGA Medalist Maira Kalman Maira Kalman was awarded the AIGA Medal for "brilliantly merging the worlds of storytelling, illustration, and design while pushing the limits of all three with her spirited creative practice." She shares bits of advice, inspiration and anecdotes with us.   Read more...

Look Inside the Target's Head: Seeking Inspiration Within Brands Reaching your target is a lot easier when you know the brand well. It can be tough to nail down exactlywhat a brand is nowadays, though. Brand legend and American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) medalist Walter Landor puts it this way: "Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind."Read more...

7 Books & Resources on Package Design Lately we've been inspired by some of the extraordinary design work from the 2015 Regional Design Annual-particularly some of the epic package designs we've seen. With that in mind, we rounded up our favorite resources for package design. See more...

Edgy, stylish and sleek: The Designs of Vicky Fotopoulou Meet PRINT's latest Designer of the Week, Vicky Fotopoulou, a 3D modeling designer and motion graphics designer whose talents include 3D modeling, animation, compositing and visual effects. Take a look at her elegant commercial work and find out what she enjoys most about the process of creating.See more...

Character Animation This Autodesk Maya course shows you how a professional animator incorporates time-tested principles of animation into her work, making her characters act and move in believable ways. Learn more... ENROLL NOW Tips and Techniques for Adjusting Type in InDesign We obsess over the microscopic details of text's alignment and placement. Fortunately for us, InDesign has useful features to make the type adjustment process faster. In this Advanced Adobe InDesign course excerpt, you'll find practical tips for adjusting type. Read more...