Archive for the ‘Honorable Mention’ Category
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What Moves You? This Video Oughta…

#WhatMovesYou? This new video promo for CLASSIC® Brand papers conceived and produced by Design Army will get your creative groove on. Neenah's exciting brands allow you to express creativity in many ways. In this video, nearly the entire set is built with CLASSIC® Brand papers. Head out to Twitter and follow the conversation: #WhatMovesYou @NeenahPaper .... ...

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Help the Hamilton Wood Type & Print Museum Today!

Correction! Yesterday's post inadvertently published captions that did not match the appropriate prints. These prints are being sold in a limited release series by Neenah to support The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum (woodtype.org) with costs associated with its relocation to a new home. Please go to www.thebeautyofletterpress.com or www.woodtype.org for ...

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The Beauty of Letterpress: Old School, Modern Times

The Beauty of Letterpress from Neenah Paper is an online destination that shows how this ancient print craft continues to excite the most progressive designers today. The website is resource center, a gallery of work and place where anyone can discover some of the most talented letterpress operators in the United States. Go to the blog post or head straight ...

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Walk the Walk: Designing a Road to Empowerment

Friends at Rule29 recently wrapped up large effort with The Konjo Initiative, a new economic development program that teaches shoemaking to unemployed or unskilled men and women living of Kibera, the largest slum in Kenya. Konjo instills a sense of empowerment by helping individuals break the cycle of poverty. Neenah celebrates these and other projects that strive ...

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Same Old Story: Refreshingly Durable Carbone Smolan

From 1977 and through today, Leslie Smolan and Ken Carbone have stood side-by-side as business partners and friends, confidants and collaborators. From Ed Koch to Michael Bloomberg, from Donna Summer to Lady Gaga, from Le Cirque to Per Se, from Studio 54 to the Brooklyn Bowl, from garbage strikes to Hurricane Sandy, theirs is an amazing personal and professional ...

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A Conference Conducted Entirely in Italian Hand Gestures? So What Else Is New?

The Brand New Conference III was held on September 7, 2012 in NYC. We asked Armin Vit to name his Top Five NEW IDEAS he took away from BRAND NEW. One of them was the mind and joy of an octogenarian well loved and known: Mr. Massimo Vignelli. Great images by Eric Ryan Anderson bring the conference to life on the blog. Neenah is a proud sponsor.

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Do You Appreciate The Beauty of Engraving?

Neenah Paper introduces The Beauty of Engraving, an innovative, engaging and informative online experience offering a trove of engraving examples, historical background, resources and contacts, technical tips and tricks, printed paper samples and links. The campaign features a delightful small film that brings the rich art and craft of engraving to every designer’s ...

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Your Name in Neon Lights? Oxide Design Preserves a Slice of Omaha History

Meeting Aaron Draplin at HOW Live recently caused Donovan Beery to wonder about the horrible loss of the Great American NEON Sign. "Is America replacing great signs of yesterday with signs of gradients and terror all over? Probably. But every now and then," writes Beery, "'We're going to take it back', as Draplin [says his video on the subject]. And in Omaha, ...

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Behind the Ropes at the 2012 HOW Design Live Conference – Where Everybody Knows Your Name

The HOW Live Design Conference is getting ready to wrap up, and I started to realize that with the four overlapping conferences, a giant tradeshow area, an increased attendance from last year, and the history of Boston around us, there is no way you can even see close to all of this thing. And as much [...]

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christopher simmons: compassion, empathy, passion

random observations from the chris simmon (mine/sf) presentation… What defines “Good Design”?  Deanna Kuhlman Leavitt once told me in an interview, “Any relationship I enter into must begin with two things: compassion and empathy. If the person has that, I can deal with just about any type of person.”  I think Simmons and Leavitt ...

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